Marin Purgar - Principal Architect

Q: Where is Marin based?

Marin is based in Čakovec, Croatia .

Q: What languages does Marin speak?

Marin speaks the following languages: Croatian (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Marin have?

Marin has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Marin has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 8 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 6 months . Note that Marin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Marin's latest experience?

Marin's most recent position is Principal Architect at Spertix .

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

In recent years, Marin has worked for Spertix , A + E Networks , and Friendsurance .

Q: Which industries is Marin most experienced in?

Marin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Media, Entertainment and Publishing , and Insurance . Marin also has some experience in Energy , Tourism and Hospitality , and Banking and Finance .

Q: Which business areas is Marin most experienced in?

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

Q: Which industries has Marin worked in recently?

Marin has recently worked in industries like Insurance , Media, Entertainment and Publishing , and Energy .

Q: Which business areas has Marin worked in recently?

Marin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Operations .

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Čakovec, Croatia

Experience

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1 year

Čakovec, Croatia

Principal Architect

Spertix

Setup Google Workspace, GitHub, Terraform Cloud and Pulumi accounts and initial infrastructure
Architected infrastructure, application and processes for the assets management application for the power generation industry
Designed and implemented staging, Q&A, production and ephemeral development environments infrastructure as code using Terraform and Pulumi on AWS and Azure
Architected and implemented CI and CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
Modeled data and implemented backend API application using FastAPI, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway and DynamoDB
Architected infrastructure as code for bare metal deployments (colocation)
Implemented instrumentation, telemetry and observability using OpenTelemetry and OpenObservability
Architected and implemented XDM and SIEM using Wazuh for proactive monitoring and security posture
Used Ansible, Puppet and Chef for configuration management
Scripted with Bash and Python (boto3)
Managed Git workflows with GitHub and GitLab

Apr 2021 - Sep 2023

2 years 6 months

New York, United States

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

A + E Networks

Implemented single sign-on using Okta for AWS and GCP accounts used by the platform engineering team
Consolidated and migrated observability platform from AWS CloudWatch to Datadog
Developed Fastly and AWS WAF frontend application firewall and threat mitigation rulesets
Migrated CI/CD pipelines from Travis CI to AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild
Designed and implemented git test and release workflow using GitHub Actions and the ELK stack
Implemented Docker image security scanning and automatic remediation using Trivy, AWS ECR scanning and AWS Security Hub
Implemented GitOps using Terraform Cloud and migrated existing infrastructure as code from AWS CloudFormation to Terraform
Designed and implemented incident response workflow and playbooks
Designed and implemented Databricks infrastructure on AWS with GitHub and Python tooling for jobs and notebooks
Designed and implemented large dataset cleaning and sanitization for the data science/AI team
Wrote policies and collaborated on security shift-left paradigm and attack surface reduction for application Docker images
Ensured compliance with security policies and standards, automating security posture reports and remediation
Co-authored and conducted tabletop exercises for incident response
Conducted technical prescreening and placement assessment interviews with job candidates
Mentored and conducted technology walkthrough sessions with junior and senior new hires
Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild), Terraform Cloud, Databricks, Ansible, Docker, Git, GitHub, Python, OpenTelemetry, Wazuh

Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

2 years 10 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior DevOps Engineer

Friendsurance

Automated infrastructure for the main web asset and supporting services on AWS using Troposphere and Ansible
Implemented proactive monitoring (CloudWatch) and incident response
Migrated capture service from external partners into internal automated AWS infrastructure using Ruby on Rails and Troposphere with Elastic Beanstalk
Implemented microservices architecture alongside existing monolith using Kubernetes, Istio and Envoy, automated with Terraform on AWS
Built infrastructure for capture machine learning using AWS ECS and AWS Batch with Troposphere
Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation), Troposphere, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Git, GitHub, Python, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, SciKit-Learn

Oct 2016 - Sep 2017

1 year

Berlin, Germany

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Wimdu

Migrated main web asset from bare metal servers (Rackspace) to AWS
Automated infrastructure for supporting services (site-wide search, autocomplete) on AWS using Puppet
Automated administration of bare metal servers using Chef
Implemented proactive monitoring (ELK) and incident response (PagerDuty)
Implemented company-wide infrastructure automation using Terraform
Sole SRE responsible for all infrastructure automation and operation
Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation), NGINX, HAProxy, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, ELK Stack, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Packer, Docker, Git, GitHub, Python

Feb 2016 - Sep 2016

8 months

Riverside, United States

Senior Software Architect

Life Tree Tech

Set up source repositories (GitHub), CI deployment (Jenkins) and cloud infrastructure (GCP)
Migrated existing PHP web asset to Zend Framework 2
Led a team of four developers with emphasis on PHP standards (PHP-FIG), automated testing (PHPUnit) and quality control
Ensured horizontal scalability for up to 100K concurrent users
Technologies: GCP, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, NGINX, PHP (Zend Framework 2, Doctrine), MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Solr

Jul 2014 - Dec 2015

1 year 6 months

Hong Kong

Senior Software Architect and Engineer

Hive

Employee number two in seed-funded startup
Set up source repositories (GitHub), development environment, CI deployment and cloud infrastructure (AWS)
Architected main PHP web asset using Zend Framework 2
Scaled system to support 300K active users and 65M HD video streams per month with 1PB storage on custom CEPH cluster with redundancy
Technologies: AWS, Docker, GitHub, NGINX, PHP (Zend Framework 2), MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Solr, CEPH

Feb 2014 - Jun 2014

5 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior Software Engineer

Rocket Internet

Part of launch team for Zencap fintech startup later acquired by Funding Circle
Member of Rocket Internet core team
Developed Seller Center back office for B2B customers of Lazada, Zalora, Linio and Jumia
Technologies: PHP (ZF1, ZF2, Symfony), MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Solr

Nov 2011 - Jan 2014

2 years 3 months

Hong Kong

Online Systems Manager

QVIVO

Employee number one in seed-funded startup
Dimensioned and acquired infrastructure including bare metal servers and AWS
Set up source repositories (GitHub), development environment, CI deployment and cloud infrastructure (AWS)
Architected and developed main PHP web asset using Zend Framework 2
Technologies: AWS, PHP (Zend Framework 2), MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Solr

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 (4.5 years), Media and Entertainment (4 years), Insurance (3 years), Energy (1 year), Tourism (1 year), and Banking and Finance (0.5 years).

Information Technology

Media and Entertainment

Insurance

Energy

Tourism

Banking and Finance

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 (12 years), Operations (6.5 years), and Product Development (4.5 years).

Information Technology

Operations

Product Development

Skills

Amazon Web Services (Cloudformation, Ec2, Lambda, S3, Vpc, Iam, Route53, Sqs, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Rds, Ecs, Batch, Eks, Dynamodb, Sagemaker)
Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Storage, Iam, Bigtable, Pub/sub, Monitoring)
Php (Zend Frameworks 2 And 3, Apigility, Symfony, Laravel)
Ci/cd (Aws Codepipeline, Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab Ci)
Configuration Management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
Scripting (Bash, Python, Boto3)
Git (Github, Gitlab)
Opentelemetry
Openobservability
Wazuh
Docker (Compose, Swarm, Registry)
Kubernetes (Istio, Envoy)
Terraform, Pulumi, Troposphere
Packer
Nginx
Postgresql
Dynamodb
Mysql (Percona)
Mongodb (Atlas)
Redis
Elk Stack
Elasticsearch
Rabbitmq
Databricks
Datadog
Slack

Languages

Croatian

Native

German

Advanced

English

Advanced

Profile

Created

January 2026

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Where is Marin based?

Marin is based in Čakovec, Croatia.

What languages does Marin speak?

Marin speaks the following languages: Croatian (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Marin have?

Marin has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Marin has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 8 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 6 months. Note that Marin may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Marin be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Marin would be well-suited for roles such as: Principal Architect, Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer.

What is Marin's latest experience?

Marin's most recent position is Principal Architect at Spertix.

What companies has Marin worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Marin has worked for Spertix, A + E Networks, and Friendsurance.

Which industries is Marin most experienced in?

Marin is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Media, Entertainment and Publishing, and Insurance. Marin also has some experience in Energy, Tourism and Hospitality, and Banking and Finance.

Which business areas is Marin most experienced in?

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

Which industries has Marin worked in recently?

Marin has recently worked in industries like Insurance, Media, Entertainment and Publishing, and Energy.

Which business areas has Marin worked in recently?

Marin has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) and Operations.

What is the availability of Marin?

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