About me
Hello there! 👋
I'm Stanko, a full-stack software developer who loves making cool stuff on the internet.
My coding adventure started in high school. I attended a couple of workshops where I played with Lego Mindstorms, Arduinos, and similar gadgets. When I wrote my first lines of code, it completely blew my mind.
My next stop was the Faculty of Science and Education at the University of Mostar. From 2018 to 2021, I studied Computer Science and met some fantastic people. We run a student group called Switch and did cool things like organizing events and participating in hackathons. We organized Open Days at the Faculty of Science and Education and the Code Challenge hackathon; we've built websites for Computer Science studies, the Student Council of the University of Mostar, and more. 
I wore different hats, from teaching programming basics to being the president of the Student Council at the Faculty of Science and Education. My biggest goal there was to support as many projects from other students as possible. We've made sure that students at our faculty have many benefits through their studies. Winning a Smart Parking NB-IoT competition and presenting my thesis on Developing Chess AI Systems at BHFF 3MT were big moments. Along the way, I got into using Laravel and Vue.js, tools that I still use today. 
In the summer of 2021, I landed an internship at QSD , where I worked on an online library project. The project was also built with Laravel and VueJs, and we had great support from amazing mentors. It was a blast, and I learned a ton about startups, business, and making cool web and mobile applications.
In November 2021, I joined ZenDev and worked on projects like Robinize , an AI tool for content writers. I learned a lot from the awesome people at ZenDev. That was my first real-world project and represented a stepping stone for me. Also, I worked on a project called Open Hours, where we managed a database with information for over a million places in the world. The project was built with Python and MongoDB. 
From 2022 to 2024, I worked as a full-stack developer for Returnless , a Dutch company that makes returns hassle-free. Returnless is an all-in-one Return Platform to handle returns faster, lower costs and prevent future returns. Here, I was serving the role of a full-stack developer, mainly working with Laravel and VueJs.
Since February 2024, I have been a full-stack (Laravel and Vue JS) developer at Avidnote. Avidnote enables faster writing, reading research papers, and analyzing research data with AI templates.
Meanwhile, I was also a part of the development team for the NIO SaaS MVP. I had the pleasure of working with FastAPI and Vue JS while building the first version of an intelligent agenda / strategic planning application for hitting revenue and margin targets efficiently.
In my free time, I'm all about sports (huge fan of HNK Hajduk Split!), running, music, and exploring. I've loved reading and writing since I was a kid, so I spend some of my free time reading literature and creating technical content.