Ceco Gakovic

Chief Architect, West Coast Innovation Lab

As Chief Architect of KickApps' West Coast Innovation Lab, Ceco has the responsibility for driving innovation and product development for KickApps and the Yuku platform. Over the past 6 years, Ceco and his team have built some of the world’s largest collaboration portals and social networks while specializing in architecting high-availability modular applications.

Prior to Yuku, Ceco architected portals and collaborative environments for clients such as Yahoo, HP, ATT, Microsoft, AMD, Cisco and Intel and developed the scada, automation and media systems for large vessels, including Jim Clark's cyber-yacht project, the Hyperior.

During his career, Ceco has lived and worked in 6 countries on 3 continents. He is also a pilot, Skipper, rock-climber, skier, Jiu-Jitsu trainer and a father of two - his biggest challenge yet.