Ivan Greguric-Ortolan - Technical Lead

Q: Where is Ivan based?

Ivan is based in Stuttgart, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Ivan speak?

Ivan speaks the following languages: Italian (Native), English (Advanced), Croatian (Advanced), German (Intermediate) .

Q: How many years of experience does Ivan have?

Ivan has at least 13 years of experience. During this time, Ivan has worked in at least 6 different roles and for 3 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 3 months . Note that Ivan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Ivan's latest experience?

Ivan's most recent position is Technical Lead at Porsche Digital GmbH .

Q: What companies has Ivan worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ivan has worked for Porsche Digital GmbH and Freelance .

Q: Which industries is Ivan most experienced in?

Ivan is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) and Automotive .

Q: Which business areas is Ivan most experienced in?

Ivan is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Product Development .

Q: Which industries has Ivan worked in recently?

Ivan has recently worked in industries like Automotive and Information Technology (IT) .

Q: Which business areas has Ivan worked in recently?

Ivan has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Product Development .

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Stuttgart, Germany

Experience

Nov 2023 - Apr 2025

1 year 6 months

Technical Lead

Porsche Digital GmbH

Contributed to the design of the new financial services integration layer and moderated the architectural discussions
Oversaw the security concept and approval of the application
Prepared infrastructure setup and best practices for the Kotlin backend

Feb 2023 - Oct 2023

9 months

Senior Solution Architect

Freelance

Designed and developed an API gateway written in GoLang able to handle 1.3 billion requests per day
Developed a low latency distributed rate limiter based on Redis Lua scripts
Developed an Angular based developer portal with a Nest.js API backend
Set up infrastructure as code using CDKTF/Terraform on AWS and GitOps in Kubernetes

Sep 2022 - Feb 2023

6 months

Ludwigsburg, Germany

Senior Lead Engineer

Porsche Digital GmbH

Led a team in developing high quality Vue.js frontend applications
Contributed in designing the new architecture of the porsche.com website using JamStack (Astro, Vue, SSG)
Implemented a proof of concept of the new target architecture based on CI/CD builds and CloudFront

Sep 2021 - Aug 2022

1 year

Stuttgart, Germany

Technical Lead - Data Streaming

Porsche Digital GmbH

Delivered internal trainings and public training offering for Kafka
Spoke at conferences about Kafka ACL management and event driven architecture
Designed and executed a proof of concept based on Kafka/ksqlDB and Next.js for a demo factory dashboard

Jun 2016 - Aug 2022

6 years 3 months

Stuttgart, Germany

Senior Software Engineer / Solution Architect

Porsche Digital GmbH

Facilitated MyPorsche cross team architectural discussions providing valuable input and opinions
Designed and implemented an OpenCV based GIF generation software responsible for creating engaging personalized emails
Driven the transformation of a monolith into Spring/Quarkus micro services communicating over Kafka to allow application scaling
Bootstrapped and developed the official MyPorsche Inbox frontend customer application using Angular and GraphQL/DynamoDB/AWS Lambda
Set up distributed tracing via OpenTracing and NewRelic to allow effective intra and cross team distributed tracing
Set up CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test and continuous deployments to production
Design and implementation of self managed API infrastructure on Azure via Pulumi
Created an Ionic multiplatform application with payment, map and backend API integration

Nov 2011 - May 2016

4 years 7 months

Venice, Italy

Software Engineer

Akera s.r.l.

Designed and implemented an explorer like interface in AngularJS for dynamic content
Implemented a two layer cache based on aggregated hash keys using Varnish in Liferay 5.x

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Information Technology (12 years) and Automotive (8 years).

Information Technology

Automotive

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Information Technology (13.5 years) and Product Development (13.5 years).

Information Technology

Product Development

Summary

Passionate software engineer eager to experiment with new technologies and willing to go the extra mile to deliver amazing products. Brings in the ability to learn quickly and to adapt promptly to new environments, strong analytical and problem solving skills and years of experience in designing solutions for big customers. As next step in my career I would like to work with Data Streaming and Analytics, Machine learning and Functional programming paradigms.

Skills

Soft

Communicative
Confident
Analythical
Proactive
Committed
Problem Solving

General

Architecture Design
Design Patterns
High Availability
Resilience
Event Driven Design
Functional Programming
Data Streaming
Etl
Data Analytics
Api Design
Tdd
Ddd
Unit Testing
E2e Testing

Programming

Java
Rust
Javascript
Typescript
Python
Kotlin
Scala
Golang
Haskell
Sql
Sh/bash
C/c++
Latex
Uml

Front-end

Angular
React
Vue.js
Astro
Html5
Css3
Redux
Sass/scss
Webpack
Next.js
Nuxt.js
Rxjs
Nativescript
Flutter
Ionic

Back-end

Spring
Webflux
Quarkus
Node.js
Nest.js
Oas3
Graphql
Opencv

Platform

Kafka
Elasticsearch
Redis
Clickhouse
Snowplow
Mqtt
Rabbitmq
Postgresql
Dynamodb
Mongodb
Arduino
Esp32
Android

Devops

Aws
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Istio
Envoy
Traefik
Terraform
Ci/cd
Newrelic
Splunk
Sentry

Languages

Italian

Native

English

Advanced

Croatian

Advanced

German

Intermediate

Education

Sep 2004 - Present

UNIPD, University of Padua (after High School techincal diploma)

Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology · Information Technology · Padua, Italy

Sep 2001 - Jun 2004

I.T.I.S E. Barsanti

Highschool, Informatics · Informatics · Castelfranco Veneto, Italy

Certifications & licenses

Certified Professional For Software Architecture - Foundation

Online iSAQB®

Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner

Online Scaled Agile Inc

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8 Programmer

Oracle

Profile

Created

October 2025

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Ivan based?

Ivan is based in Stuttgart, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Ivan speak?

Ivan speaks the following languages: Italian (Native), English (Advanced), Croatian (Advanced), German (Intermediate).

How many years of experience does Ivan have?

Ivan has at least 13 years of experience. During this time, Ivan has worked in at least 6 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 3 months. Note that Ivan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Ivan be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Ivan would be well-suited for roles such as: Technical Lead, Senior Solution Architect, Senior Lead Engineer.

What is Ivan's latest experience?

Ivan's most recent position is Technical Lead at Porsche Digital GmbH.

What companies has Ivan worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Ivan has worked for Porsche Digital GmbH and Freelance.

Which industries is Ivan most experienced in?

Ivan is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) and Automotive.

Which business areas is Ivan most experienced in?

Ivan is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Product Development.

Which industries has Ivan worked in recently?

Ivan has recently worked in industries like Automotive and Information Technology (IT).

Which business areas has Ivan worked in recently?

Ivan has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Product Development.

What is Ivan's education?

Ivan holds a Bachelor in Information Technology from UNIPD, University of Padua (after High School techincal diploma).

Does Ivan have any certificates?

Ivan has 3 certificates. These include: Certified Professional For Software Architecture - Foundation, Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner, Oracle Certified Professional, and Java SE 8 Programmer.

What is the availability of Ivan?

Ivan is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Ivan?

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