May 2019 – Apr 2025 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Greater Jönköping Metropolitan Area · Remote

• BrandsGateway, based in Jonkoping, Sweden, has been the fastest growing online B2B fashion marketplace where wholesale vendors, retail buyers, and dropshippers from around the world successfully connect.
• I've joined the company as a single developer to help rebuild their legacy e-commerce synchronization system and gradually transitioned to a team lead role managing a team of 4 developers.
• The system allowed synchronization of products and orders between major e-commerce platforms: Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento and third party ERP systems.
• The system also had integrations with DHL and Fedex for shipping label creation and Ship24 for order tracking.
• I have developed a comprehensive Laravel backend system that included an admin portal (built using Laravel Nova and Vue.js) and a RESTful API serving the webhooks coming in from Shopify and WooCommerce.
• Used RabbitMQ (CloudAMQP) as a durable message queue for background processing of Laravel jobs.
• Utilized Redis distributed locking mechanisms to ensure order-consistent processing for each order, product or category.
• I have dockerized the whole application with images hosted on Docker Hub and deployed on DigitalOcean via CI/CD process using Buddy.works.
• The system used MySQL for persistence and Redis for caching.M

Oct 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Helsinki Metropolitan Area · Remote

• Cabbie was a delivery platform based in Helsinki, Finland. It enabled restaurants and stores to manage their operations, while allowing regular customers to book deliveries to their addresses. The system also included drivers who used an Android app to deliver goods to customers.
• Architected and developed a comprehensive Laravel backend system encompassing an admin CRM portal, customer-facing catalog and booking platform, and RESTful API serving both web and mobile applications.
• Implemented PostgreSQL as the primary database solution for robust data persistence and relational data management.
• Engineered background processing infrastructure using Laravel Queues and Redis to handle asynchronous tasks including webhook processing, bulk CSV catalog imports, and continuous ride request delegation to matched drivers.
• Designed Redis geospatial indexing system for efficient storage and retrieval of merchant pickup locations, enabling rapid proximity searches (GEOSEARCH) based on customer coordinates.
• Implemented driver location tracking using Redis geospatial indexes to facilitate fast retrieval of nearest available drivers.
• Integrated Google Maps Distance Matrix API to calculate accurate travel times and distances between pickup and destination points.
• Employed Redis distributed locking mechanisms to ensure thread-safe resource processing, preventing race conditions across multiple worker processes.
• Built responsive web application using React with a modern state management architecture featuring Redux, Redux Form, Redux Thunk, and Axios for API communication.
• Integrated PubNub WebSocket service to enable real-time push notifications and bidirectional communication.
• Containerized the entire application stack using Docker and orchestrated deployment to DigitalOcean infrastructure.

Jun 2013 – Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos · El Segundo, California, United States · Remote

• Implemented a custom OAuth2 server using the Yii framework.
• Focused on building features related to the OAuth2 Authorization Server.
• Supported the Authorization Code Grant type to enable secure user authentication flows.
• Worked on a customized version of OctoberCMS, built on Laravel, to enable full site editing capabilities for CMS users.
• Developed custom CMS plugins using PHP and AngularJS to extend functionality and enhance user experience.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• Designed network infrastructure including VLANs, IP subnetting, and routing.
• Configured and maintained Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches and ASA 5510 firewalls.
• Administered Citrix CloudStack for VM lifecycle management in a cloud
• hosting environment.
• Deployed and managed VMware ESX Server for virtualization of cloud and VPS services.
• Managed LAMP-based servers for web hosting.

Feb 2009 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Skopje, Skopje Statistical Region, North Macedonia · On-site

• Configuration and maintenance of the core network equipment: Cisco
• 1800/2600 Integrated Services Routers and 3560 Catalyst switches.
• Planning and implementation of IPSec VPN, MPLS and VoIP solutions for business customers.
• Design and implementation of fiber-optic and LAN networks.
• System administration of LAMP based servers used for hosting.