Hi, I’m Mislav Bajan and I'm sharing highlights of my 3.5-year experience at Pixion: from my first steps in software development to tackling impactful projects and embracing a dynamic, supportive environment.
Mislav Bajan, 3.5 years at Pixion as a Software Engineer. It's my first job, worked on 2 impactful projects and my responsibility is, as everyone else's, to write a good code and help the team solve problems.
I've met Mario through mutual friends, the company was looking for people, I was looking for work.
At the very beginning I was supposed just to learn, and after a short time I was put on my first project. I was given a mentor, Stipan, he showed me the ropes of the business, and the rest is history.
Overall, onboarding was very pleasant and I appreciate getting what I wanted from the very start - a job where I could learn a great lot.
Flexibility, pleasant environment and people, great balance of challenge and pressure, enjoyable projects.
Dunno what to write here really - started as a dev, plan on keeping it that way, just sinking up as much knowledge as I can and am very pleased with that. All ideas are welcomed and discussed within a team, one can learn a lot from senior colleagues feedback. And it never gets boring, there is always some interesting problem to solve.
Career development came easy and natural - getting more complex tasks and responsibilities.
It was definitely fun at the beginning when I started to learn about architecture, why code is written in a way it is and what problems do we solve that way.
It was also fun to bring in that knowledge in the second project where we wanted to refactor the whole platform to new architecture. It really showed the value of that knowledge.
Currently I mostly use typescript, a nice and simple React/NodeJS app. Used to do some .NET on my last project, really enjoyed that as well. I love .NET, because, in my experience, it's superior in teaching how to properly do backend. Javascript was always present, I'm just not using C# since I switched projects.
As mentioned, there are always challenges in the way, since the current project is ever-growing and needs to scale well, while also keeping up with proper UX. It really brings out a need to watch out for details and things that can be overlooked in smaller projects or startups, and from those experiences I learned things that will probably stay viable for the rest of my career.
Creating an aggregated table for showing users important data that needs to keep up with a lot of changing information. Really learned quite a lot about databases and optimizing the whole app workflow, made some mistakes, but learned how to solve them and how not to make them again.
The pressure and challenge were up, but it was also quite fulfilling and fun work.
My favourite way to start a day is to hit the gym, it makes the whole day better. After work I mostly spend time with fiancee and our dog. Going out, watching shows, the regular stuff. Also, no surprise, I like video games, I try out al lot of them, but always end up back at Skyrim and LoL, what can I say...
As mentioned, I like to spend time gaming. Skyrim is my go-to if I want to chill out, League of Legends is the complete opposite, it's just chaos, as anyone who has played that will know.
But most of my time on screen is probably TV and Netflix. I have a need to always watch 19h news on RTL, and afterwards whatever "brain-relaxing" series or reality show is on, It's just too funny to miss most of the time.
Nothing big yet, grind never stops.
My heart stopped 3 times on birth, a good doctor from Virovitica saved me :pray: