Work Experience

• Associate Director, Engineering, Symplicity Corporation

  May, 2014 - Present

  Responsible for general approach to release management, quality of our code base, evolution of the SympleObjects framework, and automation of QA processes.

  Implemented and improved release management strategies for components shared across Symplicity products, using gitlab, composer, satis, and phabricator.

  Was actively involved in improving and reviewing changes to shared libraries and modules, and made sure an effort is made to preserve compatibility with previous versions of these modules where possible, or that a clear update path is available for potentially affected systems. Included other tech leads in important decisions regarding the above, and made sure the knowledge is propagated to all developers.

  Setup, maintained, and documented high-level systems and tools we use for code reviews, code quality, code search, and various types of automation

• Software Engineering Manager, Symplicity Corporation

  Jan, 2012 - May, 20142 years 4 months

  Worked on architecture, infrastructure, requirements, system configuration, web services, test automation, and documentation.

  Developed a code-search application for quick indexing and searching of all our code repositories, both git and svn, using AngularJS and ElasticSearch.

• Sr. Developer, Symplicity Corporation

  Oct, 2002 - Dec, 20119 years 2 months

  Designed, developed, maintained, and documented various web-based systems using PHP, MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL, Solr, ElasticSearch, Neo4j, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript technologies.

  Systems included information management, PDF publication generation, CRM, CMS and various custom solutions on Linux, Windows, and Solaris using MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle as backend.

• Intranet/Internet Developer, B2E Consulting Engineers

  Apr, 2002 - Oct, 20026 months

  • Optimized and further developed company's database.
  • Developed an intranet (ASP) interface to the database.
  • Redesigned company's website (www.b2epc.com)
  • Created a password-protected clients area for file-exchange over the web.
  • Converted existing Excel applications to JavaScript for intranet and Internet.
  • Streamlined various network and office tasks.

• Web Developer, Freelance

  Dec, 1995 - Dec, 20027 years

  www.paragonhouse.com (Book publisher) - Redesigned a cumbersome JavaScript shopping cart into a fast server-side PHP system. Made a search engine and a keyword extractor. Simplified editing and maintenance. Reduced the size of most files by 50%.

  www.iifwp.org (International NGO) - Restructured and redesigned a large site (over 200 static web pages.) Communicated with several offices to create forms for upload, editing, translation, scheduling, registration, and newsletters.

  www.baltok.com (Web design studio) - Used PHP, CSS, XML, SSI, JavaScript, and C++ to create applications for news parsing, browser recognition, etc.

  www.usteda.com (Croatian website) - Created Perl and PHP/MySQL scripts for opt-in newsletters, bringing hundreds of subscribers from a relatively small market. Optimized various other Perl scripts - increased security, removed redundant code, and setup cron jobs for periodic activities.

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