About me
Mihael Rodek
univ. mag. ing. comp. · Founder of Kodek
Software developer from Kamenica, Croatia, with an MSc in Computer Engineering from FER. Since 2021 I have been building banking and public-sector systems at True North; Kodek is where that experience goes to work for small businesses and individuals.
Experience
True North
Full Stack Developer (started as student) · Oct 2021 — Present
Full-stack work in Go, Java, and React across banking and public-sector domains — combining hands-on development with a consultative approach to defining requirements and delivering features end-to-end.
Work done as a full-stack developer at True North, before and alongside Kodek. Listed as professional background, not as Kodek projects.
Oct 2021 — Oct 2023
AKD Squid2
Microservices platform for card issuing and production management — backend and frontend work across new features, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
Dec 2022 — Feb 2023
HZMO
Sole frontend developer on an application that calculates a user's share of the family pension.
Oct 2023 — Present
RBA.hr — Card Issuing team
Building and maintaining a new card platform within the RBA Croatia group — features, platform migration, daily incident handling, and production support.
Education
- 2018 — 2023
MSc in Computer Engineering — FER
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
- 2023
Graduated — univ. mag. ing. comp.
Master's thesis: Student canteen Android application
Skills
Technologies I use to take products from a clear idea to dependable software.
Backend
- Java
- Go
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- Microservices
Frontend
- React
- TypeScript
- HTML/CSS
- Tailwind CSS
Mobile
- Android
- Kotlin
Infrastructure & Tools
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Git
- CI/CD
- CLI
How I work
Direct, considered, there after launch.
01
Direct communication
You talk to the person writing the code. No intermediaries, nothing lost in translation.
02
Considered technical choices
Proven tools that fit the project, not the trend. Something you can still maintain in two years.
03
Attention beyond launch
Going live is not the end. Maintenance, fixes, and new features are agreed as your needs grow.
Have a project in mind?
Describe what you need and I will reply with practical next steps.