About me

I'm Luka Peharda, a software engineer from Varaždin, Croatia. I've been building for the web since 2007.

For the last 13 years I've worked at Creative 6 Media on two SaaS products. Kourses is a course, community and membership platform I built from whiteboard to production and still own. Before it became my main focus I built the licensing and payments platform behind OptimizePress - 30,000+ customers over its lifetime, 70M requests a month and nearly $8M processed through Stripe.

I have never been able to just take a ticket and build it. I want to know where the request came from and how we will know it worked. So I talk to customers, handle support escalations and check the numbers after we ship.

Outside of work I help run Devz Meetup Varaždin, volunteer at Makerspace Varaždin, speak at conferences and build side projects. I read a lot and listen to podcasts, so take a look at my recommendations.

Programming is more than work for me. It is a calling :-) A way to express myself creatively and to build something that potentially a lot of people will use. I won't lie, it can be frustrating. There are good and bad days. But more often than not it is exceptionally fulfilling.