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About me
I'm Mate Burazer. I've been around systems and networks in Croatia since my first apprenticeship in 2015, and for the last few years I work on customer premises equipment at A1 Hrvatska: testing it, breaking it in the lab and sending the results back to the vendors.
As a kid I wanted root on everything I owned, including a couple of odd mobile operating systems such as MeeGo. That habit turned into a job, and I never got bored of it. Two degree papers later, one about Wi-Fi security and one about network traffic security, I have a master's from TVZ. Away from the keyboard: games, books, films, music and amateur radio.
What I work with
- CPE activation & ISP infrastructure
- TR-069 / ACS provisioning
- Windows deployment & support
- Exchange / Teams / MDM
- UI.Vision RPA automation
- IBM Maximo SCCD
- Cisco CCNA · VLAN & VPN
- Wi-Fi & traffic security
- Samba 4 / Active Directory
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Education
Zagreb University of Applied Sciences
Module: Office organisation and informatisation
More informationZagreb University of Applied Sciences
Module: Computer Systems, specialisation in Computer Networks and Systems
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Certificates
CCNAv7 — Enterprise Networking
View certificateCCNAv7 — Switching, Routing & Wireless
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Coding with C# from Scratch
View certificateMachine Learning for Business Professionals
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Work experience
CPE Activation Specialist
A1 Hrvatska d.o.o. · Jan 2025 – present · Zagreb
- Test and validate CPE devices across FTTH/FTTR, DOCSIS, xDSL, MBB and FWA before they ship to customers
- Run firmware test cycles: Wi-Fi performance measurements, bug reports, regression checks
- Watch device behaviour in ACS platforms and internal telecom systems; work with TR-069 and untangle TR-181 data-model issues found during testing
- Chase production issues, improve device stability, support rollouts of new firmware and technologies
- Work with engineering, vendors and support on device behaviour, service quality and the documentation around all of it
Junior CPE Activation Specialist
A1 Hrvatska d.o.o. · Sept 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mo · Zagreb
- Customer-side CPE activation and remote support
- Provisioning, modem configuration and fault triage
System Administrator
HBOR — Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development · Feb 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mo · Zagreb
- Collaboration systems: Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Webex
- Mail: Exchange, Exchange Online, mail gateway, archiving
- Mobile Device Management (MDM) enrolment
- Print management system maintenance
- Network management and VPN configuration
- Network storage and BitLocker encryption
- Third-level support
- Scripting the repetitive parts of the job
- OS deployment over PXE, BIOS setup, hardware and peripheral maintenance
- Coordinating delivery dates for goods and services
- Running the technical support service queue
Telecommunication Technician — Apprentice
Grbić d.o.o., telecommunication services · Jun 2015 – Jul 2015 · seasonal · Zadar
- Router configuration and setup
- Telephone line repairs
- Troubleshooting the telephone exchange
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Projects
Hardware and software refresh with automated records
IBM Maximo SCCD · UI.Vision RPA · HBOR, Feb – Jun 2021
Replaced ageing hardware across HBOR and handed new equipment to every employee, each one with written instructions. Every machine went into IBM Maximo SCCD, and the repetitive clicking around that database was automated with UI.Vision RPA macros.
IBM Maximo details
Aurelius Multitool, a Windows utility suite
One launcher that bundles service monitoring, troubleshooting tools, media utilities and a couple of games, so the things I open every week live in one place instead of five folders.
Check it out
Degree paper — Wi-Fi security
Bachelor's degree, TVZ · May 2021
How wireless security went from WEP through WPA and WPA2 to WPA3, which man-in-the-middle attacks still take each generation down, and what actually holds up against them.
Read the paper
Degree paper — Security of network traffic
Master's degree, TVZ · Jun – Sep 2023
The main classes of attack against network traffic and the countermeasure that answers each one.
Read the paper
Samba 4 Domain Controller
Samba 4 · Ubuntu Server
An Active Directory compatible domain controller on Ubuntu Server: directory services, group policy and user authentication, all from Samba 4.
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Hobbies
Amateur radio
My station log lives on QRZ.com. Press the little speaker next to the callsign chip up top and you'll hear it sent in CW.
QRZ.com profileLocal AI models
Quantised GGUF models running on my own box, inference tuning, small agents. Mostly to see where they get things wrong.
Home lab
Off the clock I still play with routers and CPE: Wi-Fi surveys, firmware updates, TR-069 experiments on my own network.