Tech Lead

Juni.co, Remote

Apr. 2021 - Present

Working together with other tech leads and the CTO in driving the architectural decisions in Juni. Leading 10 engineers across 3 teams (Insights, Integrations, and Automations), driving both architectural decisions, as well as helping team members with their career development. Established the engineering hiring processes, and have been interviewing for various roles, from FE engineers to VP of engineering.

Software Engineer

Balena.io, Remote

Nov. 2018 - Mar. 2021

Working remotely as a full-stack software engineer. The main stack we use consists of TypeScript, NodeJS, and React. A large part of my work consists of implementing vertical features, usually spanning a large chunk of the stack. I also act as a lead engineer of balenaCloud's dashboard and Rendition (our UI components library), making sure that we maintain an architecture that can grow and scale over time. I have also been screening candidates during the first two hiring stages for frontend positions.

Software Engineer

Rakuten, Japan

Apr. 2017 - Jul. 2018 (1 year and 4 months)

Worked in a distributed team as a full-stack developer in the business intelligence support section, developing an internal business intelligence web application aimed at the e-commerce business consultants. The technical tasks included efficiently aggregating the vast amount of data in Rakuten using Hive and Hadoop, creating API's to serve the data to our and other projects, and building the front-end and creating effective visualizations using React. I introduced modern development tools to the project (such as ESlint and Prettier), rearchitected the entire web application and Redux store, and brought unit and E2E test coverage from 0% to 30%.

Software Engineer (full-time intern)

Rakuten, Japan

Aug. 2015 - Oct. 2015 (3 months)

Worked on the company's global business intelligence service. Built an API service using Scala, Finagle and Thrift. The work included tasks such as writing a cache from scratch, managing concurrency, and data source retrieval from multiple sources, among other tasks. Moreover, created a chart on front-end in JavaScript with data switching, series selection, automatic reload, and client-side localization features. It was developed in a modular manner, as a client to the previously mentioned service.

Software Developer (part-time)

Particles, Macedonia

Dec. 2011 - Apr. 2014 (2 years and 5 months)

Worked mainly with C#, Microsoft Technologies (.NET Framework, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, Windows Mobile 6), Database Systems (MySQL, SQLite), JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, using Agile development methodology. Mainly worked on a smart water metering information system. Participated in the whole development cycle, from planning, to documentation and maintenance. Solely planned, designed, and implemented the on-field handheld device software (Windows Mobile 6) as part of the system, and partially implemented and maintained the central software (web solution). Furthermore, worked on the security of the metering devices, and supervised 2 interns during the summer of 2012.

Master's in Software Engineering

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan

Apr. 2015 - Apr. 2017 (2 years)

Research Student

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan

Oct. 2014 - Apr. 2015 (6 months)

Intensive Japanese Language Course

Osaka University, Japan

Apr. 2014 - Oct. 2014 (6 months)

Bachelor's in Networks and Security

UIST "St. Paul the Apostle", Macedonia

Sep. 2010 - Jun. 2013 (3 years)

GPA 9.93/10. Graduated with honors.

Aida - Unified Data Modeling

Personal project

Jan. 2018 - Present

Aida is a data and endpoint modeling tool. You can document your data models from different parts of the system in one place and share commonalities between them, representing a single source of truth. It allows you to unify how your data models and endpoints are defined, with all the necessary metadata being co-located. The project was started to speed up development on a personal project and it was recently open-sourced. More details here.

EyeNav

Personal project

May 2016 - Feb. 2017

EyeNav is a Brackets.io plugin that allows you to do simple navigation in the editor using an eye-tracking device, written in JavaScript. It allows you to scroll, click, select text, and more using your eyes and keyboard shortcuts. More details here.

HomeAutomate

Personal project

Jan. 2016 - May 2016

A project with a goal to automate my small apartment. It controls the lights, airconditioning, and music player. It is controlled by a motion sensor, hardware buttons, and a mobile application developed with JavaScript and React Native. More details here.

Lego Mindstorm Mars Rover

NAIST, Japan; Japan Airspace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan

May 2015 - Aug. 2015

Project done in cooperation with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) with a goal of creating a mars rover using Lego Mindstorm, while going through all stages of software engineering. The system is compromised of 2 parts: a ground station software, meant to communicate with the rover (written in JavaScript); the mars rover software, meant to autonomously run a 2-stage course terrain (written in C). I was the project leader, managing the tasks among the four team members and collecting requirements from JAXA. I implemented the ground station and took part in the writing of the communication part of the rover software. Project was done in Japanese. More details here.