May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Remote · Remote

• I provide coaching services for engineering leaders and engineers, including interviewing, management, organizational structure, leading teams, and career development.
• In particular:
• Architecture consulting: I help companies design robust, cloud-based solutions that grow efficiently. I do audits, design reviews, and on-demand troubleshooting.
• Leadership & management coaching: I guide new and seasoned tech leaders in building and managing high-performing teams. I also coach on delegation, feedback culture, conflict resolution, and more.
• Team mentorship & training: I provide customized training sessions on coding best practices, engineering standards, DevOps, and Agile methods and mentor teams on personal growth and collaboration.
• Organizational design & culture: I advise on setting up engineering structures, processes, and a culture that fosters openness, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Product strategy: I collaborate with product teams to clarify priorities, set achievable milestones, and align tech choices with business goals.
• Workshops & Masterclasses: I host events on topics such as “Transitioning from Engineer to Leader,” “Cloud Architecture Fundamentals,” “Building a Resilient Engineering Culture”, and more.
• Also, I serve as a fractional CTO or tech advisor for select companies.
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Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States

• In my role as a startup CTO, I'm focused on the following:
• Built a company development department from the ground up.
• Setting up a local office in Belgrade.
• Growing engineering team from 0 to 10+ exceptional talents.
• Owner of the technology vision and roadmap.
• Driving collaboration with external partners.
• Laying the foundations of scaling the technical platform and scaling the teams.
• Establishing and executing technology strategy for delivering the most possible outcome for our customers.
• Growing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with the company values.
• Driving engineering excellence and ensuring teams are delivering high-quality results.
• Delivering the flagship product according to expectations.
• Ensuring the product roadmap is well thought out and feasible for each team.
• Understanding the teams’ impediments and removing them.
• Defining clear career (progression) paths.
• Regular 1:1 meetings.
• Helping people grow and progress in their careers.
• Regular, constructive performance feedback.
• Conducting performance and salary reviews.
• Ensuring that individuals are energized and motivated by their work.
• Organizing training management.
• Solution architecture.
• Introduction of DevOps mindset.
• Implementation of .NET/Azure solutions / PoCs.
• Administration of Azure/Azure DevOps.
• Definition of QA procedures.

Jan 2022 – Sep 2022 · 8 mos

• Worked with clients, from small startups to large international and Big Tech companies.
• Accomplishments:
• Completed responsibilities as a thought leader with expertise in Software and solution architecture, .NET, Azure, and Cloud.
• Acquired a thorough understanding of the ecosystems and fundamental guiding principles of software development.
• Supported the Zühlke Community and promoted a productive workplace where team members inspire one another. shared use cases, frequently ran technical training, and generated materials to support ongoing professional development.
• Increased social media traffic and digital exposure by attending conferences and writing articles for LinkedIn, blogs, magazines, and portals.
• Offered customized mentoring for team members, sharing important industry insights to produce deeper comprehension and considerably increase overall skill efficiency while taking on projects.
• Worked on customer projects as a Software/Solution Architect and team lead in distributed teams with Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the UK, and Singapore. My responsibilities include:
• Creating the IT architectures for cutting-edge, ground-breaking software solutions and giving all clients high-level strategic advice.
• Cloud architecture (Azure).
• DevOps.
• Requirements engineering.
• Code reviews.
• Different roles in internal organization.
• Coaching less experienced colleagues/mentoring.
• Conducting technical interviews.
• Customer projects:
• Advanced speech recognition engine (FAANG company): Speech-to-text recognition engine in the Cloud. Tech stack: SAFe, .NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, WCF, SQL Server.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Accomplishments:
• Recieved an overall score of 3.6/4 from peers.
• Got good feedback overall.
• People management:
• Helping people grow and progress in their careers;
• Regular 1:1 meetings;
• Coaching and mentoring;
• Performance appraisal and feedback;
• Regular, constructive performance feedback
• Evaluations, defining goals, OKR & SMART Objectives;
• Mediation and conflict resolution;
• Defining job profiles;

Aug 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs

• Accomplishments:
• Built and led a group-wide Azure and AWS teams (CoP) for the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Singapore with 170+ people, enabling regular meetings and knowledge exchange.
• Built and led a local Cloud topic group (CoP) for Serbia, Bulgaria, and Portugal with 150+ people, certified 20+ people for Azure and AWS, set it up from the ground up, and created group-wide Azure and AWS teams with 170+ people.
• My responsibilities included:
• Defining group mission and goals.
• Defining collaboration and communication channels.
• Organizing topic group events and internal organization.
• Sharing knowledge internally and externally.
• Defining tools to be used for communication and knowledge sharing.
• Engaging in regular communication with team members and others.
• Driving Cloud topic towards capability.
• Maintain relations with other cloud capabilities on the group level.
• Job profile definition with HR.
• Searching for the right people.
• Conducting technical interviews.

Jan 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Accomplishments:
• Led a team of developers from the Belgrade side in a distributed setup with Switzerland colleagues.
• Enabled successful project distribution for a major client.
• Led Thought Leadership initiative for ZRS.
• Given multiple talks/workshops on different topics (architecture, cloud, testing, clean code, mentoring, goals, etc.).
• Worked on customer projects as part of a distributed .NET DEV team with Switzerland and Singaporean colleagues. My responsibilities included:
• Team architect.
• Team lead (Beg).
• Requirement engineering.
• Code reviews.
• Coaching/mentoring.
• Software/solution architecture, design, testing and implementation.
• Conducting technical interviews.
• Customer projects:
• Integrated investment advisory platform for relationship managers of a private bank. Tech stack: Javascript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Stored procedures, AngularX, RxJS, ngrx, Log4net, Jobbr. The biggest account and project in Zuhlke Group: 50+ people, 1mil+ LOC.

Oct 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Worked on customer projects as part of a distributed .NET DEV team with Switzerland and Singaporean colleagues. My responsibilities included:
• Software architecture, design, testing, and implementation.
• Preparing bids for projects from the technical side.
• Conducting technical interviews.
• Customer projects:
• Insurance Portal for Corporate Customers. Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC/Core/Web-API, Entity Framework, IdentityServer3, SQL Server Integration Services, RavenDB, Kendo UI, TypeScript, LESS, TFS. (November 2017.-June 2018.). 600k+ LOC.
• GUI for Media Processing System. Tech stack: WPF, MVVM, C#, Feature-Based, FluentAPI, MVVMLight, ReFit, Aspose, SourceAFIS. (June 2018. - September 2018.)

Jun 2019 – Present · 7 yrs · Belgrade, Serbia

• I help engineers, managers, and architects build great careers, products, and teams.
• My articles have been viewed 300M+ times with 400K+ followers on various platforms, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Substack, and Medium.
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Mar 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Accomplishments:
• I led an organization of 40+ people who worked on the development of different software solutions by using Microsoft and Java-based, as well as some legacy tech stacks. Some of the applications we implemented are:
• Vehicle maintenance management system (Web - 100+ users).
• Procurement solution includes elements of the plan to implement procurement, contracts, etc. (Web - 500+ users).
• Project management team member for SAP ERP implementation, acting as an internal auditor (June 2014. - December 2015.).
• Oracle UCM - document management system (support lead).
• I was responsible for:
• Leading main software implementation projects.
• People management of 40+ people.
• Helping people grow and progress in their careers
• Regular, constructive performance feedback
• Harmonising engineering processes, driving consistent standards and approaches throughout the team.
• Product development.
• Keeping the team updated with the latest software development technologies and methodologies.
• Coaching the team on agile software development best practices.
• Developing short and long-term strategies for the team to meet the company's goals and objectives. Planning and monitoring the successful implementation of this strategy.
• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc.
• Overseeing internal product development.
• Supervising other software projects.
• Defining implementation times and deadlines (for development and support).
• Leading technical support.
• Defining new internal organizational structure.
• Internal staff recruiting.
• Planning and tracking procurements for a department.
• Management of the commission for the company's inventory of concessions, intellectual property, and software.
• I administered and configured the SQL Server 2008/2014 (backup, migrations, maintenance), Team Foundation Server, and Application Server (IIS).
• Management of company's internal portal and website.

Nov 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Built and led a department from the ground up, hiring people, setting up processes, technology, etc.
• Software architect and a team leader for software engineers developing ERP-based applications using .NET stack and also:
• Built a team of developers and business analysts from 0 to 10+ people.
• Defined standards, tools and processes that were used for solution development within company.
• Line management.
• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc.
• Design of the solutions architecture.
• Framework design.
• Product development management.
• Defining new internal organizational structure.
• Internal staff recruiting.
• Scrum Master.
• Implemented projects by using .NET technology stack:
• Materials management (Web - 400+ users)
• Asset management (Web - 300+ users)
• Invoicing (Web - 10+ users)

Mar 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Senior software engineer and a team leader for following implemented projects (.NET stack):
• Storehouse calculation distributed application (Desktop), architecture and implementation (ASP.NET + C# + TFS + MS SQL Server).
• SQL Server Integration Services-based data migration from legacy system.
• Administration and configuration of SQL Server 2008 (backup, migrations, maintenance), Team Foundation Server and IIS.
• Creation of procedures for data backup, programming style, user requirements form, etc.

Sep 2004 – Feb 2009 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Software developer for following projects (Java stack):
• Invoicing (Eclipse + EJB3 + Hibernate + Spring framework + Acegi Security + Struts 2 + JUnit 4 + JMock + JFreeChart + JasperReports + SVN + JIRA + Patterns).
• ArchiDoc Web Document Management System (Netbeans + EJB2 + Struts + JSP + JUnit 3 + Patterns).
• Other projects ( CMS for Web portal & CD presentation, E-commerce Web site implementation in PHP/MySQL,...) .
• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc. Held Java course for 40 software developers (Basic, Advanced, Web, J2EE). Duration: one year.
• Consultant for various Java projects.

Jan 2011 – Oct 2017 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Belgrade, Serbia

• I operated as an independent software development expert, architect, mentor, trainer, programmer, speaker, and writer. As I have done in previous roles, I’m assisting my international clients to modernize their software development. I am at my best working with projects and teams that need a boost in collaboration, performance, and technology. Some examples of my work include:
• As an agile coach, I turn around organizations from traditional ways of working to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and continuous delivery.
• As a career coach, I guide engineers, engineering managers, tech leads, etc.
• As a Fractional CTO, I implement new technologies in organizations, such as software architectures, modern modeling tooling, RESTful services, APIs, C#/.NET, functional programming, and Cloud technologies, such as Azure and Azure DevOps.
• As an architecture coach, I help organizations restructure unmaintainable legacy code bases to new flexible and tested software architectures.
• As a software architect, I create front-end and back-end frameworks and code using HTML5/CCS3, Bootstrap, Angular, C#, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin, and WPF.
• As a mentor and teacher, I present seminars and (in-house) training courses on a variety of topics such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Software Development, Software Architecture, Microservices, Continuous Delivery, Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design, Modeling and UML, Clean Code, .NET, and Testing.

Oct 2005 – Feb 2012 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Belgrade

• I worked as a researcher during post-graduate studies in modeling and metamodeling, model transformations, rule languages, and business models.
• Published 20+ papers in international conferences and journals and received awards for best papers.
• Involved in international conferences and journals as an editorial board member, program chair, reviewer, and program committee member.
• Cited 450+ times.
• Google Scholar h-index: 11.
• Member of ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and GOAI Research group.

Jul 2001 – Sep 2002 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Implemented projects:
• E-Store application for on-line selling of books in PHP/MySQL.
• Complete code and design of a business packages FinanceBusiness for small and medium companies in Microsoft Visual C++, using MFC, Win32, PHP and MS Access (DAO, ODBC).
• Coded, designed and managed multiple web sites using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, visual editors like Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage so as other graphical tools.
• Active IT System consulting for large number of companies.

Sep 1998 – Jun 1999 · 9 mos · Lajkovac, Serbia