We are happy to announce the newest addition to our core team of developers — Kristjan Košič a technology/blockchain enthusiast from Slovenia.

Kristjan is always hacking and tinkering with state-of-the art technology and has an impressive collection of experiences. He is also a teaching assistant at one of the largest IT universities in Slovenia and will stay actively involved in the university setting. He will be ARK’s very own Technical Evangelist — promoting and spreading ARK technology.

Kristjan speaks engineering language, but he feels most comfortable with:

GOLang (he loves it)

Java

C# and .NET Framework

C/C++

Javascript

SPECIALTIES/KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Cloud Computing Engineer,

Certified Internal Auditor for Quality Management EN-ISO 13485,

Social Entrepreneur,

Risk management expert for software development EN-ISO14971, EN-ISO62304,

Graduated from two business accelerators (Eleven Accelerator, batch 2015; SK50 BootCamp accelerator 2014).

Besides technological expertise he has also gained vast experience in various other fields like: strategic planning, setting goals and KPI, budgeting, negotiating, as well as entire product life cycle management. His passion is product innovations and delivering them to the market. He loves to be present in all phases of product development, from idea to final production and distribution.

Kristjan’s background includes participating in large industry projects in various roles. After finishing his B.Sc. in computer science, he worked for the largest energy company in Slovenia (Petrol d.d.) where he was developing a mobile payment system for fuel solutions. After four years in the industry, he started his Ph.D. in the area of human computer interaction (ADORA project http://www.adora-med.com; ADORA Assistant product completed rigid medical grade certification according to European Medical Device Directive MDD93/42/EEC).

Kristjan also received recognition for exemplary achievements at the University of Maribor and finished a Sprout Entrepreneurship course led by Taking IT Global (Canada) and received a certificate of completion for Social Entrepreneurship. His skills were further improved with two intense business accelerator programs (Eleven Venture Fund and SK BootCamp Accelerator). You can also review his extensive scientific academic articles at : http://izumbib.izum.si/bibliografije/Y20171218144619-29697.html .

Kristjan fell in love with ARK and blockchain technology when he cloned his first ARK-node. He immediately started hacking on various projects while learning about blockchain and the ARK Ecosystem overall. As a community developer he contributes greatly to the ARK Ecosystem developing various client APIs, delegate helping scripts, and a listening relay node that can also be run on IoT devices.

Checkout his Github page to learn more about his contributions and skills (http://github.com/kristjank).

We are thrilled to welcome Kristjan to the ARK Team. He is already familiarizing himself with the team and his first duties. In his first steps, he will be actively involved with the new ARK Core v2 development and helping organizations on board the ARK ecosystem.