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Trucking Hub is a transportation industry product developed by 3MD Inc.In my role as CTO, I'm focused on the following:- Built a company development department from the ground up.- Setting up a local office in Belgrade.- Growing engineering team from 0 to 10+ exceptional talents.- Owner of the technology vision and roadmap.- Driving collaboration with external partners.- Laying the foundations of scaling the technical platform and scaling the teams.- Establishing and executing technology strategy for delivering the most possible outcome for our customers.- Growing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with the company values.- Driving engineering excellence and ensuring teams are delivering high-quality results.- Delivering the flagship product according to expectations.- Ensuring the product roadmap is well thought out and feasible for each team.- Understanding the teams’ impediments and removing them.- Defining clear career (progression) paths.- Regular 1:1 meetings.- Helping people grow and progress in their careers.- Regular, constructive performance feedback.- Conducting performance and salary reviews.- Ensuring that individuals are energized and motivated by their work.- Organizing training management.- Solution architecture.- Introduction of DevOps mindset.- Implementation of .NET/Azure solutions / PoCs.- Administration of Azure/Azure DevOps.- Definition of QA procedures.

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Worked with clients, from small startups to large international and Big Tech companies.Accomplishments:- Completed responsibilities as a thought leader with expertise in Software and solution architecture, .NET, Azure, and Cloud.- Acquired a thorough understanding of the ecosystems and fundamental guiding principles of software development.- Supported the Zühlke Community and promoted a productive workplace where team members inspire one another. shared use cases, frequently ran technical training, and generated materials to support ongoing professional development.- Increased social media traffic and digital exposure by attending conferences and writing articles for LinkedIn, blogs, magazines, and portals.- Offered customized mentoring for team members, sharing important industry insights to produce deeper comprehension and considerably increase overall skill efficiency while taking on projects.Worked on customer projects as a Software/Solution Architect and team lead in distributed teams with Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the UK, and Singapore. My responsibilities include:- Creating the IT architectures for cutting-edge, ground-breaking software solutions and giving all clients high-level strategic advice.- Cloud architecture (Azure).- DevOps.- Requirements engineering.- Code reviews.- Different roles in internal organization.- Coaching less experienced colleagues/mentoring.- Conducting technical interviews.Customer projects:- Advanced speech recognition engine (FAANG company): Speech-to-text recognition engine in the Cloud. Tech stack: SAFe, .NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, WCF, SQL Server.

Accomplishments:- Built and led a group-wide Azure and AWS teams (CoP) for the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Singapore with 170+ people, enabling regular meetings and knowledge exchange.- Built and led a local Cloud topic group (CoP) for Serbia, Bulgaria, and Portugal with 150+ people, certified 20+ people for Azure and AWS, set it up from the ground up, and created group-wide Azure and AWS teams with 170+ people.My responsibilities included:- Defining group mission and goals.- Defining collaboration and communication channels.- Organizing topic group events and internal organization.- Sharing knowledge internally and externally.- Defining tools to be used for communication and knowledge sharing.- Engaging in regular communication with team members and others.- Driving Cloud topic towards capability.- Maintain relations with other cloud capabilities on the group level.- Job profile definition with HR.- Searching for the right people.- Conducting technical interviews.

Accomplishments:- Recieved an overall score of 3.6/4 from peers.- Got good feedback overall.People management:- Helping people grow and progress in their careers;- Regular 1:1 meetings;- Coaching and mentoring;- Performance appraisal and feedback;- Regular, constructive performance feedback- Evaluations, defining goals, OKR & SMART Objectives;- Mediation and conflict resolution;- Defining job profiles;

Accomplishments:- Led a team of developers from the Belgrade side in a distributed setup with Switzerland colleagues.- Enabled successful project distribution for a major client.- Led Thought Leadership initiative for ZRS.- Given multiple talks/workshops on different topics (architecture, cloud, testing, clean code, mentoring, goals, etc.).Worked on customer projects as part of a distributed .NET DEV team with Switzerland and Singaporean colleagues. My responsibilities included:- Team architect.- Team lead (Beg).- Requirement engineering.- Code reviews.- Coaching/mentoring.- Software/solution architecture, design, testing and implementation.- Conducting technical interviews.Customer projects:- Integrated investment advisory platform for relationship managers of a private bank. Tech stack: Javascript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Stored procedures, AngularX, RxJS, ngrx, Log4net, Jobbr. The biggest account and project in Zuhlke Group: 50+ people, 1mil+ LOC.

Worked on customer projects as part of a distributed .NET DEV team with Switzerland and Singaporean colleagues. My responsibilities included:- Software architecture, design, testing, and implementation.- Preparing bids for projects from the technical side.- Conducting technical interviews.Customer projects:- Insurance Portal for Corporate Customers. Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC/Core/Web-API, Entity Framework, IdentityServer3, SQL Server Integration Services, RavenDB, Kendo UI, TypeScript, LESS, TFS. (November 2017.-June 2018.). 600k+ LOC.- GUI for Media Processing System. Tech stack: WPF, MVVM, C#, Feature-Based, FluentAPI, MVVMLight, ReFit, Aspose, SourceAFIS. (June 2018. - September 2018.)

I operated as an independent software development expert, architect, mentor, trainer, programmer, speaker, and writer. As I have done in previous roles, I’m assisting my international clients to modernize their software development. I am at my best working with projects and teams that need a boost in collaboration, performance, and technology. Some examples of my work include:- As an agile coach, I turn around organizations from traditional ways of working to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and continuous delivery. - As a career coach, I guide engineers, engineering managers, tech leads, etc.- As a Fractional CTO, I implement new technologies in organizations, such as software architectures, modern modeling tooling, RESTful services, APIs, C#/.NET, functional programming, and Cloud technologies, such as Azure and Azure DevOps.- As an architecture coach, I help organizations restructure unmaintainable legacy code bases to new flexible and tested software architectures.- As a software architect, I create front-end and back-end frameworks and code using HTML5/CCS3, Bootstrap, Angular, C#, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin, and WPF.- As a mentor and teacher, I present seminars and (in-house) training courses on a variety of topics such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Software Development, Software Architecture, Microservices, Continuous Delivery, Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design, Modeling and UML, Clean Code, .NET, and Testing.

Accomplishments:I led an organization of 40+ people who worked on the development of different software solutions by using Microsoft and Java-based, as well as some legacy tech stacks. Some of the applications we implemented are:• Vehicle maintenance management system (Web - 100+ users).• Procurement solution includes elements of the plan to implement procurement, contracts, etc. (Web - 500+ users).• Project management team member for SAP ERP implementation, acting as an internal auditor (June 2014. - December 2015.).• Oracle UCM - document management system (support lead).I was responsible for:• Leading main software implementation projects.• People management of 40+ people.• Helping people grow and progress in their careers • Regular, constructive performance feedback• Harmonising engineering processes, driving consistent standards and approaches throughout the team.• Product development.• Keeping the team updated with the latest software development technologies and methodologies.• Coaching the team on agile software development best practices. • Developing short and long-term strategies for the team to meet the company's goals and objectives. Planning and monitoring the successful implementation of this strategy.• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc.• Overseeing internal product development.• Supervising other software projects.• Defining implementation times and deadlines (for development and support).• Leading technical support.• Defining new internal organizational structure.• Internal staff recruiting.• Planning and tracking procurements for a department.• Management of the commission for the company's inventory of concessions, intellectual property, and software.• I administered and configured the SQL Server 2008/2014 (backup, migrations, maintenance), Team Foundation Server, and Application Server (IIS).• Management of company's internal portal and website.

Built and led a department from the ground up, hiring people, setting up processes, technology, etc.Software architect and a team leader for software engineers developing ERP-based applications using .NET stack and also:• Built a team of developers and business analysts from 0 to 10+ people.• Defined standards, tools and processes that were used for solution development within company.• Line management.• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc.• Design of the solutions architecture.• Framework design.• Product development management.• Defining new internal organizational structure.• Internal staff recruiting.• Scrum Master.Implemented projects by using .NET technology stack: • Materials management (Web - 400+ users)• Asset management (Web - 300+ users)• Invoicing (Web - 10+ users)

Senior software engineer and a team leader for following implemented projects (.NET stack):• Storehouse calculation distributed application (Desktop), architecture and implementation (ASP.NET + C# + TFS + MS SQL Server).• SQL Server Integration Services-based data migration from legacy system.• Administration and configuration of SQL Server 2008 (backup, migrations, maintenance), Team Foundation Server and IIS.• Creation of procedures for data backup, programming style, user requirements form, etc.

Software developer for following projects (Java stack):• Invoicing (Eclipse + EJB3 + Hibernate + Spring framework + Acegi Security + Struts 2 + JUnit 4 + JMock + JFreeChart + JasperReports + SVN + JIRA + Patterns).• ArchiDoc Web Document Management System (Netbeans + EJB2 + Struts + JSP + JUnit 3 + Patterns).• Other projects ( CMS for Web portal & CD presentation, E-commerce Web site implementation in PHP/MySQL,...) . • Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc. Held Java course for 40 software developers (Basic, Advanced, Web, J2EE). Duration: one year. • Consultant for various Java projects.

- Worked as a researcher during post-graduate studies in the area of Modeling and metamodeling, Model transformations, Rule languages and Business models. - Published 20+ papers in international conferences and journals, received awards for best papers. - Involved in international conferences and journals as a editorial board member, program chair, reviewer and program committee member. - Cited 430+ times.- Google Scholar h-index: 10.- Member of ACM, the IEEE Computer Society and GOAI Research group.

Implemented projects:• E-Store application for on-line selling of books in PHP/MySQL. • Complete code and design of a business packages FinanceBusiness for small and medium companies in Microsoft Visual C++, using MFC, Win32, PHP and MS Access (DAO, ODBC). • Coded, designed and managed multiple web sites using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, visual editors like Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage so as other graphical tools. • Active IT System consulting for large number of companies.