Robert Sedovšek has 8 years experience in web development & design and is currently employed at Celtra (@CeltraMobile) Turtl, mainly working on perfecting its core product.

Robert earned his PhD in 2016 at the University of Ljubljana (title of thesis: Evaluation of user experience in mobile advertising).

Work:

• 2015 — now Turtl
  Developing core parts of Turtl business.
• 2012 — April 2015 Celtra inc.
  Software Engineer, R&D
  Front-end application (single page applications using HTML5 APIs) development and research.
  CSS style guidelines, UI pattern library design, monitoring, performance optimisation and many more.
  Student mentorship for different projects: computer challenges and front-end visual testing of a large-scale web applications.
• 2011 — 2012. The Secondary School of Multimedia and Graphic Technology Ljubljana.
  Practical workshop on HTML and CSS.
• 2007 — 2013. Viged.
  Group of computer enthusiast from my home town.
  Software development, mostly e-commerce, for different companies and digital (advertising) agencies.
• 2007 — / self employed freelancer, working on web design and development.

Education

• PhD title of thesis: Evaluation of user experience in mobile advertising.
  University of Ljubljana. Earned 11th July 2016. See gallery, Promotions of PhDs.
• Elected assistant professor in the field of information and graphic technologies — 2012;
• Granted transfer from masters to PhD — 2010;
• Awarded with Zois scholarship for gifted and talented;
• Bachelor's degree was my collaboration on European 6th Framework Project, STREP project – eMapps — 2008;
  Title of thesis: Software development for game based mobile learning supported by eMapps
  At the Faculty of Natural Science, University of Ljubljana, this was the first thesis that was a part of EU funded project.
• Honoured for (all) eight straight years for excellence in the primary school; 1991 — 1998.

Work projects & experiences:

• Slovenian FHM Men's Magazine: front-end web development, team management — 2012,
• Author of a Slovene localisation for Moment.js, JavaScript date manipulation library,
• Author of a plugin for European date format sorting for JavaScript library DataTables,
• Relax Turizem d.o.o. - Design and development of a web user interface, newsletter platform and content design, etc., 2009 — 2011
• sestavi.si: one of Slovene’s biggest online computer stores – full stack support, from front-end to backend, database design, cron-tasks for XML import/export of data, automatisation of orders etc. 2007 — 2011
• imej.si : Recommendation system wizard for chosing your domain. Developed an application, which process your text input or your Facebook profile data, interprets it and returns a personalised list of suitable domain, along with their availability, all in real time. For Academic Research Network of Slovenia (Arnes), in collaboration with Luna\TWBA. — 2011
• Tina Maze (word’s famous skiier) - web development (blog, web shop, PayPal payment implementation, etc.) — 2009,
• Committee member for the project "Evaluation of municipality websites in Carinthia”, invited technical expert — 2009
  Committee member for the project "Evaluation of elementary school websites in Carinthia”, invited technical expert — 2011 (Republic of Slovenia - Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food),
• Numberous e-commerce websites, Facebook applications and flash banners for different companies, as BMW, Nissan, Nivea, Krka, NLB, Delo, Pedigree and lots of other, for digital creative agency Luna\TWBA.
• Game Based Mobile Learning, QFK (Quest for Knowledge), in collaboration with LTFE (European 6th Framework Project, STREP project – eMapps), application development — 2008
• Co-founded on of the first Slovenian (concert) reportage photography portal, Foto Kompleks — 2007,

Pet projects & the rest of fun

• Slovenia CSS User Group.
• UI Tracker, a tool for comparison of different user interfaces.
• Making sure at least 10 people play basketball twice per week.

Spoken at:

• Amazing things on Web, Slovenia Ruby User Group, Ljubljana, Slovenia — 2016
• Front-end h8#ff0000!!1;, WebCamp Zagreb 2014, Zagreb, Croatia — 2014
• "The Power of Mobile Sensors in Rich Media Mobile Advertising”, COST FP 1104 meeting in Ljubljana — 2013
• "A Modern Webmaker”, Faculty of Natural Science, University of Ljubljana — 2012
• "Future Layouts”, Spletne Urice Maribor — 2012
• "Future Layouts”, Spletne Urice Ljubljana — 2012
• "CSS3 in your @font-face", Arena Znanja — 2011
• “iCanToo" - (workshop on HTML and CSS) - Arena Znanja — 2011

Featured, cited or mentioned in:

• Acknowledgements | React,
• Beginning HTML5 and CSS3, a book by Richard Clark, Oli Studholme, Christopher Murphy and Divya Manian.
• Blog design was featured on CSS-Tricks by Chris Coyer
• "With a little help from pseudo-selectors" was translated into russian language and published as Полезные псевдо-селекторы on Frontender Magazine (@frontenderinfo).
• Adobe Web Platform: HTML Alchemy – Combining CSS Shapes with CSS Regions
• Adobe Web Platform: Web Platform Roundup
• Appliness | Digital magazine for web application developers Combining CSS Shapes with CSS Regions by Zoltan Horvath, October 6th, 2013.
• Newsletters & weekly's: CSS Weekly #74, CSS Weekly #99, Web Development Reading List #29 , Flippin Awesome

People about me

Rodoljub Petrović,
CTO at TVbeat

I hired and managed Robert while I was the VPE at Celtra.

Robert is not just another frontend developer. He is not just a guy who knows CSS and JavaScript and can put together a web UI. Robert constantly lives in the future of the web. He always wants to do things better, simpler. His job doesn't end with a functional UI. He wants to truly understand both the product and the user and find new ways to improve user experience.

I also very much enjoyed working with Robert as a human being. His humour (and dialect) kept us laughing even during the most stressful crunch times. He is eager to offer a helping hand and always wants to learn more from his teammates.

I highly recommend having Robert on your product development team. If you can give him the right challenge, I'm sure he can become one of your best.

Matjaž Lipuš,
Javascript / SPA developer at Elance

Robert is experienced front-end developer, who takes care of pixel perfect CSS design. He is also fluent with JavaScript, CoffeeScript and other web technologies. He is interest in emerging standards about CSS and web development, and experimenting with cutting edge techniques, like flex box, exclusion, shapes, etc. He is also known for his sense of humor, with his native accent, which you can't resist. :)