Ivan Nikolic [lesh] Curiculum Vitae

Environmental protection agency operating a worldwide fleet of ships.

• Maintaining navigation, communication, and IT equipment on campaigns
• Operating drones and the ship as an officer of the watch
• Designing and implementing fleet-wide operational security and R&D off campaigns

Worked on coordinating and planning complex projects in the 400 employee company, some examples:

• Design and leading the implementation of a GDPR compliant multi region infrastructure split. Almost all teams and departments in the company were involved
• Company wide secrets management, access to secrets from individual users and teams to services and servers,
• Implementing incident response processes and workflows
• Supervision and direction of other teams like SRE, Backend, Data, etc

technologies: typescript/node, heroku, sentry, datadog, postgres, aws

Founded and led the technical end of data department

• Built a full data processing infrastructure serving all departments in the company, this involved data collection, processing and visualization.
• Working with all departments. Identifying, diagnosing and implementing organisational and technical design, workflow and process changes with regards to data.
• Data department grew to 10 people

technologies: typescript/node, kubernetes, grafana, influxdb, postgres, aws, google cloud, tableau

Worked on ML for augmented creativity, focusing on graphic and web design Automatic layouting and design, recursive generative language research, deep neural networks

technologies: python, node, tensorflow, react. postgres

Algo trading company

• Developed a sub-second resolution real-time view of multiple cryptocurrency markets
• An exact simulation of trades taking into account different price changes at different market depths
• Implemented machine learning systems for trade predictions and simulations

technologies: node, postgres, ansible

Created BattleCoin.org, a cryptocurrency-based game Developed the full stack in house, including realtime syncing object system, event subscribers, JSON validators, web/networking/game/graphics engines

technologies: node, real time distributed object syncing, mongodb

Adventure tourism company operating in Korea, Japan and Philippines. Did the adventures, lead the business, wrote the online services

technologies: node, express, mongodb

YCombinator shortlisted - EU property management company with techy aspirations. We had to collect, process and react to a lot of data, so I wrote a self scaling distributed task execution cluster. There was some data scraping so it was able to browse the web using multiple backends.

technologies: node, express, react, postgres

• Implemented a testing framework using pluggable browser systems (puppet, selenium, chromedriver etc) for an education software startup
• Developed HTML5 distributed multiplayer game engine and various internal services

technologies: python, django, js

One of the biggest crypto trading platforms at the time. We owned bitcoin.com domain. I wrote a mobile payment system that uses html5 geolocation to find clients nearby. A bit boring today but stuff like this didn’t exist at a time.

technologies: python, backbone

Managed hosting company, hosting some of the highest bandwidth sites on the internet, operating with thousands of servers across the world. I’ve lead data collection, graphing, alerting and auto scaling work as well as ansible type automation systems, all this was written in-house since systems like these didn’t exist at the time.

technologies: python, perl, django, postgres