Feb 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Preparing lessons, lecturing, and managing a course in a computer science subject with focus on web based system development concepts for students on a fourth year of Bachelor study program. These concepts include SPA front-ends, microservice architectures and cybersecurity of web based solutions.
• Mentorship and facilitation of thesis development for a Bachelor degree graduation.

Nov 2013 – Feb 2020 · 6 yrs 3 mos

• Published 6 scientific papers, with focus on data security (data isolation in multi-tenant softwares) and migration from traditional software to multi-tenant SaaS
• Teaching cloud based systems and web programming:
• 2013/2014/2015 - the cloud subject was part of a Master degree studies course: Lessons were based on WCF and Windows Azure platform (now known as PaaS v1 - web and worker roles with storage services before Service Fabric was even published).
• 2016/2017/2018 - the cloud subject is in the 3rd year of undergraduate studies: Windows Azure platform - web and worker roles as well as windows azure storage services
• 2018 and later - web programming subject in the 4th year of undergraduate studies: Angular 8 and .NET Web API
• In 2018 and later, engaged in mentorship of students working on their MSc thesis. This role includes help in academic writing as well as the definition of the theme and methodology which should be used.
• Successfully established a culture of knowledge transfer and collaboration among a team of 5 teaching assistants - cloud subject.

Nov 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Holding front-end web development classes to help people in changing their profession or upgrading their web development knowledge.
• See here for more info: https://ftninformatika.com/kursevi/front-end-development/

Jun 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Responsible for leading the team comprised of cyber security experts with focus on improving SDL process and managing the cyber security of our products
• Responsible for cybersecurity vision, roadmap, governance, site certification and overall governance of cybersecurity program for our offers
• Led IEC 62443-4-1 certification for the 1000+ employees R&D site
• Led multiple customer initiated audits
• Provided cyber security advisory for R&D and customer project execution on a weekly basis
• Established and continually improved Secure by Design process on a regional level
• Actively involved in pre-sales and sales processes during the tendering and demo phases
• Wrote whitepapers on security features within our products
• Supported and participated in the information security projects and initiatives on a regional basis

Jun 2015 – Jun 2019 · 4 yrs

• After June 2017: refocused product management activities from SaaS to cybersecurity
• Before June 2017: Product manager with focus on SaaS for a leading product (ADMS) in the world
• Understanding the market and building the product roadmap strategy with focus on SaaS/security
• IT Vendor partnership/alliance management: representing the company in front of multi-national cloud and/or hardware infrastructure providers, from partnership establishment to joint sales activities
• Presales activities: working on tenders (RFIs and RFPs) from a Cloud/SaaS/Security perspective
• Sales activities: on-site engagements with potential customer for software demonstration purposes | focus on architecture and cybersecurity
• Marketing activities: created whitepapers and presentations to outline the value propositions for SaaS
• Management experience: responsible for a team of 7 people
• Involved in cybersecurity team activities needed for cloud/SaaS adoption
• Part of the project implementation team for a North American customer focused on the Cloud aspects of the overall solution. Responsibilities included communication with the customer and IT vendor partners as well as other project supervision activities. | 7 months during 2016
• Continual business modeling for new business line (SaaS)

Aug 2014 – Jun 2015 · 10 mos

• Analyzing the gaps in ADMS technology to make it a cloud ready solution suitable for the SaaS business model
• Analyzing the major cloud vendor companies (Microsoft Azure, HP Hellion, IBM SoftLayer, AWS etc.) in their roadmap as well as their current portfolio - from the perspective of migrating/creating ADMS (mission critical) application to use PaaS or IaaS offering
• Involved in pre-sales activities for a potential North American customer - the main focus was on solution architecture that will support cloud deployment
• Created different business case studies to enable data driven strategic decisions for company management

Sep 2013 – Aug 2014 · 11 mos

• Dominant technology: .NET C#, .NET MVC Web Framework
• Focus: Generalist profile understanding a wide scope of software engineering concepts & algorithms. Mostly involved in engineering complex solutions and influencing service oriented architectures based on software patterns as much as possible.
• Work Order Management Feature Team Member
• Working on version 3 of ADMS software, v3.5.0 and v3.5.1
• Developed stories in a team of 10 people following SCRUM framework practices
• Was engaged in cross functional development of new features.
• Developed a rich client side web application structured in MVC pattern for web UI, and WPF for desktop UX.
• Developed distributed service side using C#, WCF and other .NET technologies
• Developed unit tests using Rhino Mock framework and automated UI tests using python scripts.
• Understanding of new features and writing test scenarios for different user stories.
• For periods was involved in QA (Quality assurance) performing code reviews, reviewing and approving incoming code bundles (HG Mercurial used for version control), and enforced CI cycle procedures.
• SCADA Installer Project Team Member
• Learned basics of the Perl programming language. Worked on converting existing scripts in Perl language to C# scripts, and adding unit tests for the new scripts. Most of the scripts were written following a procedural programming paradigm. The developed scripts represent a pillar of the ADMS product and are now in the core library of the whole product.
• Developed and maintained a plugin for existing shell application which uses MEF. Plugin used WPF for UI side.

Jul 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Focus: research of cloud platforms (mainly Windows Azure) and implementing distributed algorithms
• Designing and implementing performance tests for specific windows azure services (Table storage and Windows Azure caching)
• Creating highly accessible resource manager services which auto scale monitored cloud services.
• Research on a multi-tenant cloud applications following OneCloud ideology as an architected solution which is extensible and applicable to Windows Azure and Windows Server 2012 at the same time.
• Setting up virtual cloud environments using HyperV manager and SCVMM (Creating generalized windows images, setting up domain controllers, sharing network storage over smb 3.0 etc.)
• Designing services, and implementing service oriented architecture projects using WCF. (standard on-premise applications and Windows Azure projects in an inter-role communication scenarios)
• developing web roles as a presentation layer for various WindowsAzure projects.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs · Novi Sad and Belgrade

• Part time engagement | up to 60 hours monthly
• Development and maintenance of a web application with public and private sections with ~70.000 registered users and ~1.000 active users
• Used google analytics to analyze the worldwide usage of the web application to propose SEO and landing page improvements
• Migrated the web application from .NET WebForms to .NET MVC with richer UI experience using JQuery and JS
• Maintained the hosted VM instance and set up customer relationship portal for efficient request fulfillment process
• Responsible for all parts of the web application: from relational database (MS SQL Server 2012) to business tier and UI.
• Securely implemented different payment processing providers including the bitcoin payment