Peđa Trifunov
Peđa Trifunov is a Senior Backend Engineer at Nordeus with 7 years of experience. His journey at Nordeus has taken him through web technologies and Unity client development before finding his home in backend engineering - building scalable, reliable systems that serve millions of players of Nordeus’ flagship title, Top Eleven. Outside of that, he’s passionate about building software that helps people work faster and smarter.
And just in case the tech industry ever surprises us, he’s spent the last 7 years perfecting his coffee and cocktail-making skills - so he’s got a solid backup plan.
Talks
Don’t run Kubernetes on your laptop. Smuggle your JAR into the cluster instead.
We've all been there - your microservice stack is too heavy to run locally, but pushing every small change through CI just to test a one-liner feels like overkill. There has to be a better way. In this talk, Peđa introduces Hybrid Environment — a setup that lets you compile Java locally and hot-reload your code directly into GKE, a real cluster, in seconds. No Docker image. No pipeline. Just fast, frictionless feedback that lets you focus on what actually matters: writing good code. He'll walk through how he and the Top Eleven engineering team built and implemented this approach in practice — using one of the world's most popular mobile football management games as a real-world example of what this looks like for a complex multi-service setup.