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Belgrade, Serbia

Perfect Art - international technology consulting company with expertise in machine learning and data analysis, deployment of cloud and hybrid infrastructure for digital enterprises, mobile development

Belgrade, Serbia

Quilo - digital lending and syndication platform, which enables community banks and credit unions to originate, service and syndicate loans to other lending participants.• Led the product engineering team consisting • Managed new functionality development and delivery across multiple streams: mobile app, web apps, pricing model and service, payments, general ledger, and infrastructure• Participated in technical design sessions and development of POCs• Developed project roadmaps, created timelines, implemented JIRA workflows and managed project dashboards• Prepared the necessary documentation for periodic audits (SOC2 and PCI DSS) and participated in resolving the found inconsistenciesTechnology stack: Azure / K8S / Java Spring / Python Flask / React Native / Mongo DB / Prometheus

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

ADV/web-engineering company specializes in the development of omnichannel solutions. Implemented solutions in the field of e-commerce, remote services, electronic services, business process automatization, etc.• Led department over 60+ engineers. Hired engineers, built cross-functional project teams, coached/mentored technical specialists to accelerate their growth. Grew 2 team leads from the internal senior engineers and helped 5 junior engineers to grow into performing individual contributors.• Supervised engineering process of the company’s e-commerce framework used to build systems for clients.• Managed e-Commerce projects portfolio with high complexity level and high availability requirements, built on PHP Symphony as the backend, and Vue.js as the frontend, native mobile apps, and hybrid apps in React Native. As a result, the revenue of e-Commerce department increased by 40% compared to previous years.• Managed department’s budget, did revenue and expenses forecasts. • Launched two extremely complex projects and built a stable process of their support - one for the largest grocery stores chains in Russia with hundreds of thousands active daily customers and another for one the biggest diamond producers in the world.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Digital BBDO - digital-department of one of the largest and oldest Ad Agencies in the world.• Built a team of 10 engineers from scratch. Implemented a stable SDLC for websites, and mobile apps from an “offer to client” stage to delivery and post-launch support. Launched more than 70 projects, successfully maintained 30% profitability of projects.• Drove building and improvement of internal engineering standards and adopting industry best practices, performed code reviews. • Hired and mentored engineers, did performance review for engineers in my team, provided continuous feedback through 1 on 1 meetings. • Managed engineering team budget, reported on team’s performance and efficiency to senior management.Technology stack: Laravel PHP, ReactJS, Swift, Java, React Native

Zurich, Switzerland

GLFG – Swiss investment fund with over $200 mil. dollars under management.• Reported directly to CTO, led engineering team of 7 engineers (C++, C#, Python, Vue.js) developing semi- and fully-automated trading algorithms, stocks screening apps, alerting, custom reporting, stock market data aggregation and processing.• Collaborated with internal stakeholders, clarified technical and business requirements, wrote and maintained technical specs for the engineering team.• Developed design and architecture for the systems my team was working on• Developed applications for stocks screening automation, alerting systems, semi-automated trade orders executions for stock portfolio managers.• Hired and mentored engineers.• Delivered technical presentations to executive leadership, managed roadmaps, coached the company staff with SCRUM methodology.• Launched users’ personal section on the company website, where they were able to get information about their account status, financial reports, market forecasts which allowed to lower the loan on support and reduced expenses on customer support by 60%.Technology stack: C++, C#, Python Django, Vue.js

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Pichesky - full-service digital Ad Agency• Developed a backend for a custom made BI platform pn PHP Symphony for TEVA pharmaceutical company. Tightly collaborated with the product owner from the client’s side to deeply understand the requirements to metrics and calculations logic. BI system developed by my team allowed Teva to increase the efficiency of the Marketing department by 30%.• Built a backend on PHP Symphony for a native Android app for purchasing, downloading and listening to lectures of famous modern Russian poets sponsored by one of the biggest banks in Russia.• Developed a backend for a project for Ferrero Rocher brand with online and physical components: a Facebook app where users were able to create a digital artwork “masterpiece” in a few clicks and submit it to be shown in a famous Russian gallery on a large projection screen. Over 5,500 users signed up during the 2-week campaign, submitting over 12,000 pieces of artwork

Los Angeles, California, United States

HR Start-up "Dreamcy''• Built a team of 3 engineers (FE engineer, BE engineer and Full-Stack). Developed architecture for the MVP of the system, implemented the backend part on Python using Django framework, tightly collaborated with the Product Owner to gather feedback from the users to improve usability and performance of the system and introduce new features.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• Participated in the development of the news module of the website • Developed various integrations with financial news agencies APIs for retrieval operative news and financial data.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

BKS – one of the largest stock brokerage companies in Russia• Participated in development of an internal ETL system on Python for retrieving and structuring historical stock market data from various data sources to be analyzed by quantitative analysts