Engineering leader with 15 years experience focused on people, product and value creation for customers and shareholders. Designed, created and managed end-to-end software at scale from spec, prototype, delivery and operations.
I have a determined entrepreneurial spirit constantly involved in idea creation and scaling of new technologies and creative solutions. I believe in hands-on involvement and building a spirit of ownership and excellency.
Ident-A-Kid, Florida - Chief Information Officer (CIO) | Jan 2022 - present (1yr)
Working with the management team on idea creations, sales, strategies, customer support, business models and capital allocation (talent and dollar resources).
Building, hiring, mentoring and leading a development team of 6 people, remote and on site for more than 7 years.
Data science project idea creation and designing methodology and data models to retrieve statistics in an efficient way and representing different models for better insides of how customers are using our platform.
Customer support idea creation, surveys and designing data models to retrieve statistics about customer issues from different sources and different categories, working on NLP for customer support tickets automation and training data models.
Working on compliance standards for service organizations SOC2 certification.
Ident-A-Kid, Florida - Senior Software Engineer | Aug 2015 - Jan 2022 (6yrs, 5mos)
Designed and created foundational components for the entire organization from authentication and authorization services, internal components, communication protocols, libraries for repeatable code, CI/CD automations, AWS cloud deployment, networking, security such as firewalls, load balancers and api protection to front-end user experience using material design layout and other modern technologies, to communication tools and chatbots, dashboards and data science, leading engineering team and much more, yes it’s too good to be true but I spent almost a decade in this company by constantly learning and building things, I believe in compounding the knowledge which creates a snowball effect like this.
Designed and helped to create SAML Identity Service Provider that is highly customizable for different customer accounts, user roles and services.
Built face detection service for better visitor check-in picture, using machine learning and open source tools.
Built proprietary DevOps automation tools, reduces time to test and deploy and configure, increased developer productivity and reduced development lifecycle.
Designed and created proprietary Code Generation tools, reduces the time to write code, configurations and unit testing.
Building other internal tools, which reduce the maintenance cost and increase productivity.
Designed and created API integration with PowerSchool and other integrations SIF, OneRoster, Sex Offender Database, for low latency and redundancy.
Designed and created a fully offline support service in the web browser for improving user experience on spotty internet availability.
TrendBiz, Kosovo - Software Engineer | Oct 2006 - Aug 2015 (8yrs 11mos)
Owner of the business with other partners, operating in financial auditing and software development.
Created PoS system and accounting software, launched 14rs ago and still in used today. This was my first product started during college in 2006, from designing, coding, testing, end-user training documentation (CD at that time) and marketing, doing door to door sales me and my brother.
Wife and I created a SaaS online learning platform, me doing coding, designing, testing and deployment and my wife helping with brain storming and marketing in 2013. This was my first time using a cloud platform such as AWS. During this time we moved to the USA for other opportunities.
Some of the technologies used are: AWS Cloud, VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server 2008, LINQ Data access, Reporting Services, WCF web services, PHP (Drupal), live video conference.
I created different products starting from the E-School system for national education programs, Video-On-Demand Prepaid Billing System for major Telecommunication Provider, ETL system for the Tax Administration Ministry and POS system for private businesses.
Preparation for request for proposal (RFP) on public tenders, writing architectural, design proposals, tech stack, planning, project management, to deployment, end-users training and documentation.
Designing the program, including hiring and leading the software engineering team (and wearing many hats) including writing the majority of source code.
Building internal tools from code generation to deployment.
Establishing the technical architecture (OnPrem, Microsoft Windows Servers) for software engineering and tech support, including data warehouse, pipelines, and dashboards.
Evaluating and onboarding various 3rd party tech products (and helping to sunset others).
Instituting team practices like version control, project management, documentation, mentoring etc.
On-site training on different locations and meeting with customers, collecting feature requests and bug discoveries right in the field.
Some of the technologies used are: C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server 2008, LINQ Data access, Reporting Services, Adobe AIR (for offline data support in the browser) WCF web services, PHP, Java, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), etc.
Education
South East European University (SEEU), North Macedonia
