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Nenad Vukicevic
Verified Expert in Engineering
Internet of Things (IoT) Developer
Nenad is an experienced tech lead and principal engineer working with Node.js and Python. He excels at database design, data lakes, data processing, web infrastructure, and system architecture. Nenad has several years of experience leading and managing engineering teams.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Sublime Text, Ubuntu
The most amazing...
...project I've led consisted of building a data lake and processing infrastructure used in the pharmaceutical and life-sciences industry by industry leaders.
Work Experience
Tech Lead
TetraScience
- Led a team of engineers as the tech lead for a Y-combinator startup.
- Designed and implemented a data lake for massive-scale data storage.
- Designed and implemented an IoT platform for data collection.
- Designed and implemented microservice architecture.
- Reduced AWS costs by 75% on a large-scale deployment.
Software Engineer
ZYX Integrated Technologies
- Architected a new application based on a graph database.
Consultant
NanoHeal
- Troubleshot a high-load application.
- Optimized database queries and the web server configuration.
- Rewrote the Node.js-based application code.
Senior Web Developer
GroundLink
- Created a flexible and simple customization system for non-technical employees to customize the company website.
- Redesigned the login system to move from a non-random, non-secure token system to be more robust and secure.
- Created a responsive design for a complicated multi-step booking process.
- Designed a secure single sign-on solution between very restricted legacy systems and new applications.
- Re-factored poorly designed and implemented solutions, bringing a previously unsuccessful project to completion.
Senior Consultant
Ascendant Technology, an Avnet Company
- Led a devops team at one of the world's largest banks, working on their internal collaboration platform.
- Designed database failover infrastructure for multiple clients.
- Designed and implemented LDAP replication and failover systems.
- Worked with the latest IBM technologies for single sign-on and security applications.
- Implemented internal systems for collaboration and version control.
Developer
Lakeview Technologies
- Developed a distributed peer-to-peer backup system with encryption and privacy features.
- Worked on expanding a popular electronic trading platform.
- Optimized memory-intensive graphing functions to work with a fraction of previously required resources.
- Implemented an auction platform for recyclable materials.
- Created a system for on-the-fly distribution of mathematical models between server and client.
Experience
Crunch
https://github.com/vukicevic/crunchIoT Platform
Data Platform
I led a team of engineers who have built a successful product gaining traction in the life-sciences and pharma industries.
Skills
Languages
ECMAScript (ES6), JavaScript, SQL, GraphQL, Python, PHP, C++, Java, TypeScript
Frameworks
Redux, Hapi.js, Express.js, Angular
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, REST APIs, AMQP, Facebook API, Google API
Tools
NPM, NGINX, Amazon Athena, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SDK, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Fargate, Git, Travis CI, Mongoose, AWS Glue, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Sublime Text, Docker Compose, RabbitMQ
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, DevOps, MEAN Stack, Microservices, REST, Lambda Architecture, Clean Code
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Ubuntu, Docker, Linux, AWS IoT, Rancher, Kubernetes
Storage
Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Data Lake Design, Data Lakes, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, IBM Db2, Elasticsearch, Neo4j
Other
Security, Internet of Things (IoT), API Design, APIs, Back-end Development, Big Data, Data Management, Back-end, Software Architecture, Scalability, Lambda Functions, Cryptography, CI/CD Pipelines, Technical Leadership, Single Sign-on (SSO), Containerization, Containers
Education
Master's Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Imperial College, University of London - London
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