Luka Kladaric

Chaos Guru
Consultant
Software Architect

Talks

Speaking at tech conferences and meetups isn’t just something I do—it’s a huge part of who I am and what I love. Getting to share the latest tech trends, cool techniques, and my own experiences with an enthusiastic audience is absolutely thrilling.

I see each talk as a chance to not only share what I know but also to learn and grow myself. It’s like a two-way street of knowledge exchange. Plus, I love the challenge of making often really complex topics feel more down-to-earth and relatable.

And you know what’s even better? Seeing that spark in someone’s eye when they “get it” or feel inspired to dive deeper into some tech tidbit I just talked about. It’s like planting seeds of curiosity and watching them grow into something amazing. So yeah, every talk, workshop, or panel discussion is not just about the moment—it’s about shaping the future of tech, one conversation at a time.

Highlighted recordings

Full speaking history

2024

  • Above Clouds

    workshop

    Cloud Native software development

    Zagreb, Croatia

    April 2024

  • Kubernetes is awesome (you don't need it)

    Zagreb, Croatia

    March 2024

2022

  • Future of Infrastructure as Code

    Zadar, Croatia

    September 2022

  • Future of Infrastructure as Code

    Šibenik, Croatia

    September 2022

  • Shipping quality software in hostile environments

    Rab, Croatia

    May 2022

  • Stop rubbing strange lamps

    Rab, Croatia

    May 2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Shipping quality software in hostile environments

    Zagreb, Croatia

    December 2019

  • The other side of webapp security

    Novosibirsk, Russia

    November 2019

  • The Platform Is Dead, Long Live The Platform

    Novosibirsk, Russia

    November 2019

  • The Platform Is Dead, Long Live The Platform

    Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    November 2019

  • From chaos to quality

    Belgrade, Serbia

    October 2019

  • The Platform Is Dead, Long Live The Platform

    Zagreb, Croatia

    October 2019

  • The Platform Is Dead, Long Live The Platform

    Opatija, Croatia

    October 2019

  • Shipping quality software in hostile environments

    Osijek, Croatia

    September 2019

  • Tech Bankruptcy

    Munich, Germany

    May 2019

  • Geo-distributed Development Teams in Practice

    Split, Croatia

    May 2019

  • ZgPHP Meetup

    Tech Bankruptcy

    Zagreb, Croatia

    March 2019

  • Banja Luka Dev Meetup

    Tech Bankruptcy

    Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    February 2019

2018

  • Tech Bankruptcy

    Novi Sad, Serbia

    December 2018

  • Shipping quality software in hostile environments

    Belgrade, Serbia

    November 2018

  • The other side of webapp security

    Zagreb, Croatia

    October 2018

  • Phabricator - what's it do?

    Zagreb, Croatia

    March 2018

  • Zero Downtime Datacenter Failovers

    Belgrade, Serbia

    January 2018

2017

2016

  • DevUG Karlovac

    Freelancing, a crash course

    Karlovac, Croatia

    December 2016

  • Security in the age of web frameworks

    Zagreb, Croatia

    October 2016

  • Security in the age of web frameworks

    Varazdin, Croatia

    September 2016

  • The importance of being a noob

    Zagreb, Croatia

    April 2016

  • The importance of being a noob

    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    March 2016

2014

  • DigIT Zadar

    Hitlist case study

    Zadar, Croatia

    November 2014

  • Bad ideas & worst practices

    Zagreb, Croatia

    October 2014

  • Pytalks

    Hitlist and Heroku

    Zagreb, Croatia

    May 2014

2013

  • LAMP Scaling 101

    Verona, Italy

    May 2013

2012

  • Geo-distributed development teams

    Zagreb, Croatia

    November 2012

  • LAMP Scaling 101

    Zagreb, Croatia

    October 2012

  • deviantART internal

    Datamining and what it can do for you

    July 2012

  • ZgPHP User Group

    What’s new in PHP 5.4

    Zagreb, Croatia

    April 2012

  • ZgPHP User Group

    Development at scale

    Zagreb, Croatia

    January 2012

2011

  • Web User Group Zagreb

    Automated spam on the Web

    Zagreb, Croatia

    November 2011

  • deviantART internal

    Automated spam on the Web

    November 2011

2010

  • MobileCamp Ljubljana

    Web Apps for Mobile – hurdles and gotchas

    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    March 2010

  • SQL/Developers User Group

    PHP development for Windows developers

    Zagreb, Croatia

    March 2010

  • Web User Group Zagreb

    What’s new in jQuery 1.4

    Zagreb, Croatia

    February 2010