¡Hola!
I’m quadrilingual — speaking Macedonian, English, Spanish & Serbian.
For more than a decade I’ve been programming professionally, developing backends for cross-platform apps & making websites visited by millions every month, as well as programming native applications for both the desktop and mobile.
I’m interested in new technologies that enable me to do things faster — whether it’s a new programming language (hello Go) or a new sublime text plugin. Nowadays I mostly work with PHP and Go on the backend, but often use Swift for mobile apps, and HTML/CSS/JS for the web. I’m not a stranger to the terminal or #devops either — having previously moved most of our websites to automated one-click deployments based on Gitflow and Rocketeer, with a custom web front-end — and now managing a transition to a cloud native architecture.
Currently
I work at SnapTrade on democratizing trading and making investing and finance easier for everyone. As part of a small, lean team, I work on everything from code and product quality, to devops, performance optimization and DX.
Previously
I worked on keeping Free-eBooks.net's millions of members happy and connecting them with thousands of our authors. From deployment systems to in-house analytics and recommendation systems, as the Software Architect at Stirling Corp., I've worked on it all.
Lead a full transition from traditional hosting to a cloud native architecture using Amazon Web Services.
Complete redo of our iOS app. Designed, implemented & launched 2 separate apps in 2 different languages with a shared codebase. Consolidated multiple backend versions into a standardized, versioned RESTful API that became the backend to our Android app as well. New app’s rating climbed to 4.8 stars soon after launch, versus the old one’s 2.5.
Worked with our engineering and server team to move to a more robust workflow. In parallel, we moved all our sites from SVN to Git as our primary VCS and replaced our legacy deployment process with single-click deployments. Error-prone processes that used to take minutes to hours now take seconds while offering a better peace of mind.
^ Git Logo by Jason Long. Used with permission.