TDIEst. 2024 · Rijeka
00Independent Studio · Rijeka
19:04 CET · Available Q3 '26

Your startup's
technical
co-founder —
without the equity.

—Dossier

Twenty years of shipped software across fintech, blockchain, and AI. We architect, we build, we ship — and we stay until it runs in production.

20+
Years shipping
25+
AWS services migrated
1
US Patent pending
120M
Rows, sub-500ms
01Track Record

Things we've actually shipped — not a slide deck.

Pre-MVP AI investment platform → public beta in 4 monthsMulti-chain DeFi wallet, iOS + AndroidHeroku → AWS, 25+ services, zero downtimeBlockchain payment platform — US patent pendingChief Architect at AI-driven dev platform120M+ currency pairs, sub-500ms queriesWebcasting platform for a UN agencyCo-founded cloud printing · coupons · hours appsPre-MVP AI investment platform → public beta in 4 monthsMulti-chain DeFi wallet, iOS + AndroidHeroku → AWS, 25+ services, zero downtimeBlockchain payment platform — US patent pendingChief Architect at AI-driven dev platform120M+ currency pairs, sub-500ms queriesWebcasting platform for a UN agencyCo-founded cloud printing · coupons · hours apps
01 / 04
AI investment platform
Pre-MVP → public beta
4 months
02 / 04
Multi-chain DeFi wallet
iOS + Android
Global users
03 / 04
Heroku → AWS migration
25+ services
Zero downtime
04 / 04
Blockchain payments
US patent pending
Architected end-to-end
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02What We Do

Three practices.
One operator.

Full-stack apps, MVPs, SaaS platforms. AI integration, blockchain, payment systems — built to ship and to last.

Shipped across AI, fintech, blockchain, and SaaS — pre-MVP to scale.

01
Full-Stack Applications
Rails, TypeScript, React, Node, Next. Database design through production deploy.
02
AI & LLM Integration
RAG pipelines, vector stores, agentic features. AI shipped inside real products — not demos.
03
Blockchain & DeFi
Smart contracts, multi-chain wallets, tokenomics. Ethereum, Solidity, production-grade.

Architecture reviews, cloud migrations, performance. Heroku to AWS, 25+ services, zero downtime. 120M-row tables brought to sub-500ms.

Led infrastructure at scale — from query plans to full cloud migrations.

01
Architecture & Design
System assessment, scalability planning, technical-debt reduction. Systems meant to last.
02
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS / GCP. Container orchestration, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations.
03
Performance
Database tuning, query optimization, caching, load testing. Real numbers, measured.

Technical leadership without a full-time hire. Team building, dev process, mentorship, hands-on code when it matters.

Served as CTO, Chief Architect, Staff Engineer — seed to scale.

01
Team Building & Hiring
Engineering structure, hiring pipelines, culture. Find and retain the right people.
02
Development Process
CI/CD, agile, code review, quality gates. Process that helps teams ship, not perform.
03
Technical Mentorship
Coaching, architecture workshops, best-practice training for your team.
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03Process

Five phases.
No surprises.

  1. i
    Discovery

    Understand the business, the users, the constraints. Ask the hard questions early so they don't become expensive later.

  2. ii
    Planning & Architecture

    Technical architecture, the right stack, milestones you can hold us to. Realistic timelines, not theatrical ones.

  3. iii
    Building

    Short iterations, demos every week or two. Working software, not mockups. Clean, tested, production-ready code.

  4. iv
    Launch

    Infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and the actual launch. Working in production — not just on localhost.

  5. v
    Support & Iteration

    We stick around. Bug fixes, performance, new features. We also help you hire and onboard the team that takes it from here.

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04The Studio

A boutique practice, led by an operator who has built teams from seed to scale.

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Founder · Ivan Turkovic

Published author (PhoneGap Essentials, Packt). US patent pending for blockchain payments. CS from the University of Ljubljana. Has served as CTO, Chief Architect, Staff Engineer across fintech, blockchain, and AI.

Based
Rijeka, HR
Working
Globally
Modes
Remote · Embedded · Contract
—House rules
i
Craftsmanship over velocity

Clean, durable systems. Moving fast is knowing what to build — and what to skip.

ii
Honest estimates

What it'll actually take, in time and money. No scope creep theatre, no hidden line items.

iii
Software that lasts

Meant to run in production for years. Not throwaway prototypes. Not over-engineered monuments.

—Focus Areas
Generative AILLM SystemsFintechBlockchainDeFiPayment ArchitectureCloud-NativeDistributed Systems
—Stack
Ruby on RailsTypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPythonRustSolidityAWSGCPPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchMongoDBDocker
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05Contact

Have a thing
you want to build?

Email
[email protected]
Phone
+385 91 9411 859
Studio
Antuna Barca 7
51000 Rijeka, Croatia
Mon–Fri · 09:00–18:00 CET● Accepting Q3 '26
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