Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Tuzla | MEng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
May 2014Graduate thesis: Application of the basic numerical methods in the dynamic systems simulations
Technical leadership, consulting, coaching, presenting
Technical product engineering & management
Identifying & resolving bottlenecks, improving code deliveries
Leading engineering teams working on distributed system
Compassion, empathy, storytelling, people skills, teamwork, communication
Public speaking (conferences & meetups)
Taking charge of full SDLC covering both ends of the stack
Software architecture, API development, API & CRM integrations, database maintenance, scripting
Full-stack engineering (slightly leaning to the backend side)
Code reviews, refactoring & testing, code quality assurance
Implementing and following Kanban, Scrum, and Agile
Development: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Hotwire, Tailwind CSS, StimulusJS, VueJS, EmberJS, AlpineJS, GitHub, Heroku, AWS, RubyMine, VS Code, Tmux
AI tools: Perplexity.ai, Claude.ai, Groq, Leonardo.ai, Ollama, ChatGPT, Cursor, Github Copilot
DevOPs: IaC (Terraform and Ansible), Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud (AWS & GCP), Proxmox
Cybersecurity: Web and cloud security, penetration testing and DevSecOPs
General: Web application architecture, customer-centric development, system design
AI: Patterns of application development with AI modules and self-healing code
Actively exploring: Go, Elixir, Python, Clojure
Programming Languages
Frameworks
Dev. Tools
Actively Exploring
Mahalo.so, Talin (Estonia) / Porto (Portugal)
Nov. 2023 - Feb. 2024Senior Technical Consultant (part-time, remote, contract)
Tasked with feature development, application design, system testing, and bug fixing.
Contract also included improving documentation, test coverage, and code improvements
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Minitest, Tailwind CSS, StimulusJS, GitHub, Heroku, Sentry, Metabase, AWS, RubyMine, VS Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Github Copilot, Tmux
Marketer Real Estate Technologies AS, Oslo (Norway)
Mar. 2022 - Apr. 2023Lead Software Developer (full-time, remote)
My daily work included overseeing, supporting, and leading engineering teams working on a distributed system.
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Jira, GitHub, Heroku, BugSnag, Sentry, Metabase, AWS, RubyMine, VS Code, Tmux
Marketer Real Estate Technologies AS, Oslo (Norway)
Apr. 2021 - Mar. 2022Senior Software Developer (full-time, remote)
Worked on programmatic marketing and digital advertising CRM in the Real Estate industry.
Oversaw programmatic conversion and consumption of Real Estate data obtained from external integrations
API development, API and CRM integrations, database maintenance, scripting
Oversaw full SDLC, full-stack development with minimum DevOps
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (ES6), ReactJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Heroku, AWS, Jira, Airtable, BugSnag, Sentry, GitHub, Metabase, RubyMine, VS Code, Tmux
Ideaology.io, Dubai (UAE)
Apr. 2021 - Apr. 2022Technical consultant (part-time, remote, contract)
Overlooked technical decisions, development stack
Oversaw technical recruitment process
Technical environment: NodeJS, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, GitHub
Coflyt LLC, Pensacola (USA)
June 2020 - Feb. 2021Senior Software Engineer (full-time, remote)
Code quality assessment, codebase optimization, API integrations, new feature development, and bug-fixes
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (ES6), PostgreSQL, RSpec, Bootstrap 4, CSS3 (Flexbox), Heroku, GitHub, Rollbar, RubyMine, VS Code, Tmux
Up and Running Software, Ames (USA)
July 2017 - June 2020Software Engineer (full-time, remote)
Responsible for miscellaneous full-stack tasks, ranging from new feature development to bug fixes and platform maintenance and scripting.
CRM app development including API integrations, reporting services, inventory management, etc.
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript, ES6, VueJS, Vuetify, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Bootstrap 3/4, CSS3 (Flexbox), Redis, SOLR, Elm, GitHub, Jira, RubyMine, VS Code, Tmux
SabeOnline (rebrand. Bugle), Lisbon (Portugal)
Apr. 2017 - July 2017Backend Ruby on Rails Developer (full-time, remote, contract)
In charge of API development and DB maintenance for an educational CMS.
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RSpec, GitHub, Sublime Text, Tmux
Codeplace.com, Porto (Portugal)
Dec. 2016 - Mar. 2017Lead Content Developer (full-time, remote, contract)
In charge of optimizing and managing Author Network
Led content development of Ruby on Rails tutorials
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (ES6), PostgreSQL, RSpec, Bootstrap 3, CSS3 (Flexbox), GitLab, Basecamp, Sublime Text, Tmux
MiaVision doo, Tuzla (BiH)
May 2016 - Dec. 2016Software Engineer (full-time, on-site)
Built MVPs with (mostly) EmberJS frontend and Ruby on Rails backend.
Technical environment: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (ES6), EmberJS, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Cucumber, Gherkin, SQLite, Bootstrap 3, Bourbon (SASS), CSS3 (Flexbox), GitHub, Sublime Text, Tmux, Vim
Dalia doo, Tuzla (BiH)
Mar. 2015 - Dec. 2015Software Engineer / Team Lead (full-time, on-site)
Developed ERP solutions for a local company.
Lead a small team of three using Microsoft technologies
Technical environment: C#.NET, MS SQL Server, WinForms, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, MS Visual Studio
Bosnian (‘Native’): ●●●●●
English (‘Full professional proficiency’): ●●●●○
2024
2019
Mentor at NASA Space Apps Challenge Tuzla 2019, Tuzla, 17-19 October
2017
Technical reviewer at Packt Publishing “Bootstrap 4 Cookbook“, 1-20 June
2016
Mentor and lecturer at “Europe CodeWeek 2016 - Peace of Code“, Tuzla, 20-23 October
Mentor and lecturer at “Junior Ruby on Rails Web Developer Course”, Tuzla, June 20
Mentor and lecturer at “freeCodeCamp Tuzla Workshop“, Tuzla, May 9
FreeCodeCamp campsite leader
2010
Lecturer on behalf of Leftor doo. at “GIS and GPS Workshop”, EESTEC and IEEE event, Tuzla
2009
Co-Founder and Contact Person, EESTEC, JLC Tuzla, Tuzla