Experience

LiveIntent, Inc.

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lead Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Berlin, Germany As a continuation of my work as a Senior Software Engineer, I focused more on improving the performance and stability of our systems: - Reimplemented the database access layer of our attribution services, which improved performance and reduced infrastructure costs. - Started the operational playbook initiative to help people on duty mitigate the common issues and spread the knowledge of our systems’ runtime behavior throughout the engineering team. - Conducted the GraphQL… Show more As a continuation of my work as a Senior Software Engineer, I focused more on improving the performance and stability of our systems: - Reimplemented the database access layer of our attribution services, which improved performance and reduced infrastructure costs. - Started the operational playbook initiative to help people on duty mitigate the common issues and spread the knowledge of our systems’ runtime behavior throughout the engineering team. - Conducted the GraphQL workshop and provided the reference implementation for migrating the existing service APIs. - Extracted the resource-intensive synchronization jobs to Kubernetes cron jobs, which improved service availability during synchronization. - Designed the new identity resolution authorization and authentication solution. - Designed the new content details storage to allow us to provide random recommendations effectively. - Reduced our CI build times by ~40%.

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

  Berlin, Germany As part of the real-time guild, I designed and implemented a new domain and rules management services used in our advertisement events ingestion pipeline and a new Voldemort client library that improved the performance of our identity resolution service. Besides the design and development tasks, my duties included infrastructure automation and conducting internal knowledge-sharing sessions.



Zalando

• Germany
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Backend Engineer

  • Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

  Berlin, Germany As part of the development team in charge of the article onboarding pipeline at Merchant Operations, I lead the development of new article review and article steering and prioritization services that improved overall pipeline stability and decreased total review time. My duties also included pipeline maintenance, performance optimization, and conducting knowledge-sharing sessions.



RISK IDENT

• Germany
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scala Developer

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Hamburg, Germany I was a part of the team in charge of the development of FRIDA - customizable fraud-detection software that supports fraud managers by evaluating, comparing, and establishing relationships between transactions ingested from a wide range of sources. Besides feature development, I've improved automation of the release and deployment process and conducted a couple of internal tech-talks.



Mainflux Labs

• Serbia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Architect

  • Oct 2016 - May 2018

  Remote Designed the architecture of Mainflux IoT platform, and developed most of its core components, including the platform's data model and its security policies. My duties included public speaking and researching the field that resulted in several published journal and conference articles and an online book, "Scalable Architecture for the Internet of Things" published by O'Reilly.



Scientific Games

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Contractor

  • Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

  Remote I have improved the performance and stability of the existing system for processing gaming transactions.



SuperPhone®

• United States
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Contractor

  • Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

  Remote Participated in the redesign of the platform that improved its scalability and performance. Restructured internal service communication, and developed multiple services for mass message processing and distribution. Created platform’s back office administration panel.



SmartCat.io

• Serbia
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Consultant

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2017

  Novi Sad, Serbia I have designed, implemented, and deployed Apache Spark ETL jobs for generating offerings based on data obtained from content providers in the domain of online shopping. Contributed to the development of various open-source tools for monitoring and analyzing the performance of Apache Cassandra clusters.



Scientific Games

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Contractor

  • Nov 2014 - Aug 2016

  Remote I have designed and implemented multiple supporting microservices in the domain of online gambling. Besides the primary role of a developer, my duties included managing and automating platform infrastructure.



Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad

• Serbia
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Oct 2011 - Dec 2015

  Novi Sad, Serbia Prepared laboratory exercises for multiple undergraduate courses at the department of computer science.



NTsystems

• Serbia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Mar 2012 - Oct 2014

  Novi Sad, Serbia I was a lead software developer and a solution architect on numerous projects. My primary responsibilities were designing and implementing server-side systems, conducting internal training sessions, and mentoring new developers.



Typhoon HIL, Inc.

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Consultant

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2014

  Novi Sad, Serbia Developed the platform for accessing HIL devices in a distributed environment.