Ivan Despot Email & Phone Number

Croatia

Zagreb, Croatia

As part of a cross-functional team, I am engaged in the software development process of Ericsson’s flagship products throughout multiple systems and components. My responsibilities include:● Delivering new software functionalities by collaborating with multiple stakeholders, analyzing proposed solutions and studying legacy systems.● Ensuring code quality and stable feature delivery by maintaining and extending testing frameworks.● Employing extensive CI/CD workflows for efficient code testing and delivery.● Engaging in the development of 5G (NR) solutions, including standalone, non-standalone and dual connectivity deployments.● Investigating, reproducing, and mitigating issues reported by stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.● Ensuring adherence to 3GPP international standards.● Contributing to a comprehensive documentation library.Programming languages/technologies used: Python, C++, Java, Erlang, C, BashTools used: Git, Gerrit, Docker, Wireshark, Eclipse, VSC

Zagreb, Grad Zagreb, Croatia

As part of the Developer Experience team, my main goals were to analyze user behavior, drive product awareness and adoption rates, optimize the user journey and collaborate with engineering teams to implement user feedback. My other responsibilities included:● Full-stack development and applied data science, creating demo applications to showcase product features on different domain problems (social network analysis, bioinformatics, transportation, process optimization, etc.).● Managing the company's developer community and assisting them with technical problems.● Creating content in the form of blog posts, tutorials, code snippets, technical guides, videos, live streams, etc.● Organizing, attending and presenting at meetups, conferences, hackathons, etc.● Managing and mentoring a team of DevRel engineers and interns as well as managing the hiring and onboarding process of new team members.Medium profile: gdespot.medium.comProgramming languages/technologies used: Python, NetworkX, C/C++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, BootstrapTools used: Git, GitHub, Docker, Docker Compose, Apache Kafka, Neo4j, Memgraph, MySQL, AWS EC2

Zagreb, Croatia

In this capacity, I was responsible for the organization's IT infrastructure as well as providing support for all IT-related projects. This included:● Administering and optimizing Linux servers supporting the hosting of websites, databases and email servers ensuring high performance and reliability.● Developing and maintaining web applications (HTML/JS/CSS & WordPress)● Developing and maintaining game platforms for AI BattleGround Zagreb and AI BattleGround Belgrade hackathons (Java & Python), ensuring scalability and robustness for large-scale events.● Implementing security measures across infrastructure, including firewalls and intrusion detection, ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Croatia

My main responsibility was the development of the eGOP (eGovernment Operations Platform) webplatform, which provides electronic services to citizens and business entities in the public sector. Thisincluded the migration of existing services to a new technology stack (.NET) as well as the design andimplementation of new features.Programming languages/technologies used: C#, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap, AngularJS, Kendo UITools used: Visual Studio, Azure DevOps Server, Microsoft SQL Server

Master Of Science In Computing, Computer Science

Master's thesis: Social Network Graph Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques

Bachelor Of Science In Computing, Computer Science

Bachelor thesis: Wavelet Tree Construction of Genome and Protein Sequences