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Full-stack Developer
Location
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal Member Since
September 14, 2018
Mališa is a full-stack engineer who prides himself on his code quality and speedy implementation, along with his keen eye for the UI and UX of any project that he dedicates himself to. He’s worked as a part of —and occasionally led—multicultural teams and has experienced every phase of the software development lifecycle. Mališa enjoys working on open-end projects to be a part of the project from the beginning to implementation.
Portfolio
StreamFlow Finance
React, Tailwind CSS, GitHub, Rust, Solana
Marketing Secrets
Laravel, Laravel Nova, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel Livewire, Laravel Forge
Marketing Secrets
Laravel, Laravel Livewire, MariaDB, Sass, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery...
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
PhpStorm, OS X
The most amazing...
...job I've done is to build a web app from scratch, with only the existing business as reference and the client for business and marketing-related consultations.
Work Experience
Founder
2021 - PRESENT
StreamFlow Finance
- Came up with the idea, application infrastructure, and designs. A suite of payment-related products for crypto natives.
- Formed a team to work on various aspects of a product, separated work into the front end, back end, content, community management, and business development.
- Built the React application from scratch by myself. Used contexts, stores, mobile-first development principles.
Technologies: React, Tailwind CSS, GitHub, Rust, Solana
Full-stack Engineer
2021 - 2021
Marketing Secrets
- Rebuilt existing web applications using different tech stacks.
- Integrated Laravel Nova admin panel for team members.
- Built an API for the mobile application to use. Collaborated with mobile app developers to make the integration seamless.
Technologies: Laravel, Laravel Nova, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel Livewire, Laravel Forge
Full-stack Engineer
2020 - 2021
Marketing Secrets
- Built the web platform for assessing and showcasing personality tests from the ground up, starting only with the designs.
- Developed product-market fit and business strategies like go-to-market, monetization, growth, and marketing.
- Set up development processes, tooling, architecture, database, documentation.
- Integrated third-party software—social networks like Facebook, Linkedin, and Google, email import, Sendgrid, WordPress.
Technologies: Laravel, Laravel Livewire, MariaDB, Sass, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, Laravel Forge
Full-stack Engineer
2020 - 2021
Barevalue (via Toptal)
- Collaborated closely with the client to assess the business needs in the pre-development phase.
- Provided wireframes and sketches for the main and secondary user flows, designed upon the existing website, and modified to suit the client's needs.
- Set the infrastructure (Linux box, database, version control, reporting system, TLS certificate installation, and DNS setup).
- Integrated Stripe (elements, billing, and metered billing).
- Integrated Amazon S3 direct upload and offloaded bandwidth-intensive file upload from our server directly to Amazon S3 in a user-friendly way.
- Integrated Mailgun (email service provider) and Customer.io (scalable automated marketing tool).
- Onboarded and mentored a new developer until he was fully able to handle all the responsibilities.
Technologies: Sass, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, Laravel, MySQL, Linux
Full-stack Engineer
2018 - 2021
Quiet Notion, LLC (via Toptal)
- Refactored the existing codebase to support scalability, drastically improve performance and security, and ease new developers' development, maintenance, and introduction to the project.
- Implemented pixel-perfect, responsive, and complete redesign of the application by working closely with the main designer. This improved business metrics such as lower bounce rate, more satisfied customers, and higher conversion rate.
- Integrated third-party services like Stripe, Google Pay, Apple Pay, Amazon S3, Mailgun, and Customer.io.
- Upgraded PHP, MySQL, and CodeIgniter, and collaborated on migration from Windows to Linux server.
- Developed various features and functionalities with minimal guidance and with minimal, often without any, design prototypes.
- Integrated Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager.
- Onboarded and managed a full-stack developer to replace me on the project gradually.
Technologies: CSS, jQuery, Linux, MySQL, PHP
Full-stack Engineer
2016 - 2019
FishingBooker
- Built customer-oriented features to boost growth, SEO, retention, and conversion rate.
- Refactored a crucial part of the customer funnel to make pages SEO friendly and any future development easier.
- Constructed employee-facing tools and dashboards to help colleagues with their everyday tasks.
- Developed a full-blown dashboard with several customizable, dynamic, and interactive widgets embeddable on any website by pasting a piece of HTML code in order to gain inbound links from the external sites.
- Integrated various third-party services (Zendesk, Mandrill, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager).
- Completely restructured, refined, and led the hiring process for developers.
- Onboarded and mentored several new hires (developers).
Technologies: Google Analytics, Webpack, Bootstrap, Less, React, MySQL, PHP
Freelance Developer
2018 - 2018
Clients (via Toptal)
- Performed remote pair-programming and taught React by building a serverless web application.
- Improved architecture (upgraded Apache, PHP, MySQL, cPanel) and introduced a version control system (Git).
- Developed custom features on Fuel CMS (CMS for CodeIgniter PHP framework) and made front-end changes.
- Integrated Authorize.Net for payments.
Technologies: Amazon Cognito, Contentful, Algolia, React, Apache, MySQL, CodeIgniter, PHP
Full-stack Developer
2015 - 2016
Halcom d.d.
- Improved the existing Halcom e-banking products while working in a highly versatile scrum team.
- Configured, customized, and helped with the deployment of the e-banking platforms for two major banks.
- Developed and tested features for an electronic invoicing platform.
Technologies: IBM Db2, Apache Velocity, Ext JS, Less, jQuery, Apache Maven, Spring, Java EE
Support Engineer Intern
2015 - 2015
ManageWP, LLC
- Developed small WordPress plugins.
- Implemented front-end enhancements.
- Provided top-level support for our WordPress plugin users.
Technologies: Vagrant, Bootstrap, AngularJS, PHP, WordPress
Webmaster
2011 - 2012
CS Computer Shop
- Created and maintained a Joomla website and managed the domain, hosting, and certificates.
- Managed the site content, user accounts, monthly newsletter, added news, and updated product lists, quantities, and prices on a regular basis.
- Handled the shop's daily operations including the sale of computer equipment and maintenance/repairs of the customers' personal computers.
Technologies: Joomla
Experience
Betheros
During a 48-hour-long hackathon, my team and I developed a proof-of-concept Blockchain-based solution for transparent and fair rewarding of open-source contributors.
Volunteer Experience
During my studies and as a member of an IT-focused student organization, I actively participated in many projects/events.
EESTEC Android Competition
• Created a web presentation for the competition supported by Google.
JobFair 14
• Completed the front-end redesign as well as created the new MySQL database for students' CV data.
• Educated members of other student organizations (BEST and EESTEC) on web development basics.
• Maintained the network infrastructure during the fair.
Front-end Development
• Developed a small CRUD AngularJS app for managing websites, Malisa.rs/angular.
• Crafted a fully responsive theme based on a given Photoshop file, Malisa.rs/cooncook.
Soft Skills Academy
• Supported the website (hosting transition), design modification, and database management.
• Helped out other team members with all technical issues.
• Was actively involved in the organization of the project.
beogradskisindikat.com
• Assisted with website issues for an eminent Serbian hip-hop group, Beogradski Sindikat.
• Translated parts of the website and upgraded the site design and overall UX.
Voxxed Days Belgrade
• Volunteered for the organization.
Microsoft Sinergija
• Provided logistics support.
EESTEC Android Competition
• Created a web presentation for the competition supported by Google.
JobFair 14
• Completed the front-end redesign as well as created the new MySQL database for students' CV data.
• Educated members of other student organizations (BEST and EESTEC) on web development basics.
• Maintained the network infrastructure during the fair.
Front-end Development
• Developed a small CRUD AngularJS app for managing websites, Malisa.rs/angular.
• Crafted a fully responsive theme based on a given Photoshop file, Malisa.rs/cooncook.
Soft Skills Academy
• Supported the website (hosting transition), design modification, and database management.
• Helped out other team members with all technical issues.
• Was actively involved in the organization of the project.
beogradskisindikat.com
• Assisted with website issues for an eminent Serbian hip-hop group, Beogradski Sindikat.
• Translated parts of the website and upgraded the site design and overall UX.
Voxxed Days Belgrade
• Volunteered for the organization.
Microsoft Sinergija
• Provided logistics support.
Hackathon Honors and Awards
Winners of an Internal Fintech Hackathon.
• My team of four and I created a webshop that easily integrates with the mobile banking solution, Hal mBills. Our idea was recognized as financially and technically feasible and after the hackathon, Halcom began further development.
Winners of the Bytes of Banking Workshop
• During this student workshop, I led a team that was recognized to have the best technical solution and they were proclaimed winners of the workshop. At the time, we were prototyping an upgrade to the existing Halcom m-Bank platform in order to improve social media banking.
Best Useful App for an EESTEC-organized Workshop
• During an EESTEC-organized workshop, the application that my team was working on was awarded the "best useful app" award. It was a health-related mobile application prototype.
• My team of four and I created a webshop that easily integrates with the mobile banking solution, Hal mBills. Our idea was recognized as financially and technically feasible and after the hackathon, Halcom began further development.
Winners of the Bytes of Banking Workshop
• During this student workshop, I led a team that was recognized to have the best technical solution and they were proclaimed winners of the workshop. At the time, we were prototyping an upgrade to the existing Halcom m-Bank platform in order to improve social media banking.
Best Useful App for an EESTEC-organized Workshop
• During an EESTEC-organized workshop, the application that my team was working on was awarded the "best useful app" award. It was a health-related mobile application prototype.
Skills
Languages
HTML, PHP, CSS, SQL, Less, HTML5, Sass, Java, JavaScript, Rust
Frameworks
Bootstrap, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Spring, Apache Velocity, AngularJS, JSF, PrimeFaces, Ext JS, Laravel Livewire, Tailwind CSS
Tools
Git, Webpack, PhpStorm, Apache Maven, Vagrant, Apache, Amazon Cognito, NPM, Google Analytics, GitHub
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Scrum
Other
Pixel Perfect, Full-stack, PSD to HTML, IT Recruitment, Mentorship, Software Engineering, Laravel Forge, Laravel Nova, Alpine.js, Solana
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, React
Platforms
LAMP, OS X, Java EE, Linux, Algolia, Contentful, WordPress, Joomla
Storage
MySQL, IBM Db2, MariaDB
Education
2012 - 2017
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering - Belgrade, Serbia
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