We are excited to announce that Domen Grabec has joined the Origin Protocol engineering team!
Domen is based in Slovenia and will be joining our growing team of engineers that are contributing to Origin Protocol around the world. Having a truly distributed team comes with collaboration challenges. The culture of “public by default” and open-collaboration helps tremendously. At Origin, we have all our discussions in public in Discord, publish our engineering meeting notes to the world, track our progress on a public project board, and invite anyone to join our weekly engineering calls.
Domen started as an extended team member last year and since then has had an impressive impact on several different projects. His first project was to build search capabilities for our DApp. Then Domen took on an initiative to improve our DApp’s mobile user experience. Currently, he is busy implementing growth initiatives that we’ll be announcing soon. These contributions clearly demonstrated his abilities to move fast and operate at any level in our stack.
Domen has solid and diverse industry experience under his belt. Prior to Origin, he worked at Celtra, an advertising IT company, where he was part of the team responsible for a Big Data pipeline using Scala and Spark clusters to process hundreds of GB of data daily. Prior to that, he partnered with two Slovenian Chess Grandmasters to create an iOS and Android app where users can play simultaneous chess with Grandmasters. He is also famous for contributing to a significant number of people’s loss of productivity when he implemented and released an iOS game called Pigs!
During his free time, Domen enjoys dancing Salsa. He is part of an amateur group that performs a few times a year on stage. Rumor is that once, during warmup before a performance, Domen managed to pull off doing five consecutive perfect pirouettes!…but alas nobody was there to witness his prowess.
Domen is an avid hiker; his home country of Slovenia provides an abundance of mountain trails. In the summertime, he wakeboards, practicing 720 degree jumps.
In his own words, here is why Domen is excited to join our team: “Origin Protocol ticks a lot of the boxes for me when it comes to what is important in a company. It is an open source codebase and has a transparent collaboration process. The team is highly skilled and enjoys working on tough challenges.”
We’re looking forward to working with Domen on building amazing products at Origin Protocol. Please join me in welcoming him to our team!
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