Feb 2021 – Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Facilitated and expedited feature development by helping to define, design, scope, and solution features, identifying risks, clarifying assumptions, and making technical tradeoffs.
• Directed the product's architecture and proposed simplifications, spearheaded larger architecture projects, and worked towards reducing the technical debt.
• Actively participated in the hiring process, onboarding, and facilitating cross-team communication.

Nov 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Led the initiative to build the next generation cloud infrastructure to enable future 100x growth of the platform (Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes). In 6 months the initiative went from proposal to seamless infra rollout with the first canary feature successfully migrated and running at 100x scale. Designed and implemented necessary PoCs, detailed design docs, CI/CD pipeline, worked closely with SREs on infrastructure rollout and operational playbooks, worked closely with engineers on data migration and feature rollout.
• Designed and led the implementation of a server-side driven table view, reporting and metrics architecture based on PostgreSQL and dynamic query generation in Java. The result was 100x performance and scale improvement, at a fraction of the cloud costs compared to the old impl.
• Helped with hiring, feature development, architecture and mentoring across individual engineering teams. Lead the development of complex features or larger engineering initiatives.

Oct 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• Co-designed the WorkSpan platform based on flexible schema entities. The platform enables many business applications tailored with configuration driven schema, workflows, UI, access control, business logic, validations and automated actions.
• Designed and implemented FE architecture of composable UI components that enables configuration driven look and feel of the whole UI. Awarded for Excellence in Engineering [Feb 2019].
• Worked closely with the FE team and led the Angular migration initiative. Upgraded (Gulp to Webpack) and enhanced the FE build with code splitting, HMR, caching, asset optimization, seamless CoffeeScript/TypeScript support and a hybrid Angular setup. Resolved memory leaks and set up best practices for unit and e2e testing.

Aug 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 7 mos · Remote

• Full-stack developer under contract with Toptal clients.

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017 · 8 mos · Skopje, Macedonia

• Contributed to the development of the Wuest Dimensions project as a senior full-stack dev.
• Worked closely with the REs and UI/UX devs to document, plan, estimate, and prepare future stories.
• Implemented and improved the build setup, app packaging and deployment, CI, and CD.
• Owned code quality, documentation, and best practices, doing in-person or deferred code reviews and pair programming.
• Supported other projects with issues, decisions or coaching connected with the JavaScript stack.

Jul 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Skopje, Macedonia

• Contributed to the development of the Wuest Dimensions project as a full-stack dev.
• Proposed and successfully coordinated an intern project.
• Discussed estimations and technical implementations as well as implemented and presented new features, bug fixes, and technical stories.
• Wrote tests and maintained high code coverage. Conducted performance analysis and load testing, ensuring cross-browser compatibility.
• Supported the team members and organized know-how sharing presentations.

Oct 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Conducted lab exercises for the following courses: Database systems, OO analysis and design.
• Explained the material and the tasks contained in the exercises.
• Helped students with the tools used for implementing the tasks.
• Graded students for the effort, success, and quality of their work.

Jul 2013 – Sep 2013 · 2 mos · Skopje, Macedonia

• Contributed to the development of a new web app for the company's online competition system for algorithmic programming: CodeFu (www.codefu.mk).
• Researched and evaluated Java libs and frameworks for WebSockets. Implemented PoC with Atmosphere framework and integrated it in the existing CodeFu Java back-end.
• Collaborated with other interns on the development of the new web app for CodeFu.
• Implemented the integration of the new web app with the existing CodeFu back-end.