I am a Senior Software Engineer with a strong foundation in DevOps, Sales & Outbound Marketing, and Business Development. With nine years of professional experience, I've had the opportunity to work across diverse business domains and adapt to various work styles. My career has encompassed roles from individual contributor to team leader, allowing me to bring a well-rounded perspective to each project.

Experience


SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER Distributed Technologies Research | 2024.10 – present Working as a freelance consultant for Swiss&UAE-based Fintech, remotely. Programming in TypeScript, w/ AWS Lambdas, SQL. Working on an Onramping/Offramping product.. Mostly working with AWS Lambdas, TypeScript, SQL, Blockchains.

CTO Kodius | 2019.08 – 2024.10 | Co-Owner at Company from 2019.01 - present Regularly led projects, devised processes, developed and architected software, wrote documentation to be used at company level as well as guided others to do the same. Created in-house libraries, unblocked obstacles where these occured and mentored peers while also managing client expectations across projects. Worked on guiding others, providing technical assistance across various domains, as well as boosting our Sales efforts via Outbound marketing (handling our entire internal MarTech stack), and improving our Business development.

TEAM LEAD & SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER MoneyLion | 2020.01 – 2023.10 Worked on various projects across the company, mainly focused on implementing performant solutions across the backend and frontend while adhering to strict coding and quality standards. Built things with TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, React, while constantly experimenting with the latest and greatest. Led a team of Full-stack developers and DevOps to optimally handle their workload, optimized their delivery and regularly fixed production issues when those arose.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER Smart Pension | 2019.01 – 2020.01 Worked on a Fintech Ruby on Rails monolith app (w/ MySQL and Ember.js) for a very quickly growing UK-based startup. Spent time mostly working on the backend, designing and implementing effective and performant API solutions for handling investments of the platform's clients. Adhered to a very strict exclusively TDD-first style of development. Helped improve an existing pipeline for importing sensitive information and regularly collaborated with various relevant stakeholders.

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER Welltok | 2019.01 – 2020.01 Worked on a large-scale enterprise Healthtech system made up of a string of micro- services. Most of them built in Ruby on Rails, Node.js with MySQL as database. Front-ends were predominantly based on React. The whole platform was running via K8s, hosted on AWS. I developed mostly across the full-stack spectrum using TDD. Architected data migrations between crucial parts of the system as well as pipelines for even-based communication between micro-services. Regularly worked with stakeholders, demoed features built by my team, planned and groomed, etc. Routinely did changes on peripheral micro-services built in wildly different technologies that others generally shied away from (e.g. Golang).

SOFTWARE ENGINEER Kodius | 2019.01 – 2020.01 Worked with a host of different technologies across the entire Custom Software spectrum, from web applications to mobile apps, desktop apps, did DevOps, etc. Built stuff mainly with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL and some React, as well as countless other backend and frontend technologies. Regularly designed, architected as well as implemented crucial features for delivery of products as well as pushed them to production and maintained until someone else would take over. Provided technical guidance and mentoring to more junior members of the team.

Contact


(+385) 99 765 3080 [email protected]

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Education


UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB BA in Computational Linguistics 2009 – 2014

Skills


Ruby on Rails TypeScript, JavaScript SQL React AWS Kubernetes