Owner & Web Consultant
Freelance ⦁ 2019 - Present
- Running a solo web development and UX design consultancy specialized in planning, designing, and delivering custom-built web applications on time. Working with companies and entrepreneurs from all over the world including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Zürich, and more
- Helping companies deliver their products so they can gain interest from investors, bring value to their users and meet their business goals
- Focusing on frontend architecture, developing product features, and optimizing infrastructure and processes
Software Engineer III
Credit Karma ⦁ 2018 - 2019
- Supported Marketplace product in it’s early stages
- Successfully finished product placement experiments running on our highly trafficked Homepage
- Took ownership of multiple cross team product integrations
- Transferred to be a core member on our new International platform, where I contributed with initial architecture design, establishing technical roadmap and building shared component library
Senior Frontend Developer
solarisBank AG ⦁ 2016-2018
- solarisBank enables innovative digital businesses through modular, API-accessible financial services
- Designed architecture in Redux/React/Webpack for white- label product used by our API partners - This successful project expanded our company's portfolio and brought additional revenue
- Was responsible for building internal bank operations and compliance web interface using Mobx/React/Rspec/Jest/ Ruby on Rails
Director of Engineering (Head of Department)
Moviepilot, Inc ⦁ 2015 - 2016
- Moviepilot supports a community of 30 million entertainment fans. A place for fans to talk about movies
- Maintained user experience of moviepilot.com using Haml/Coffeescript/Ruby on Rails
- Was responsible for release of Accelerated Mobile Pages of existing articles (AMP)
Frontend Developer
Searchmetrics GmbH ⦁ 2015
- Searchmetrics delivers enterprise SEO and content marketing analysis and reporting
- Built Content Composer MVP in React.js framework using Flux approach and JavaScript ES6
- Built REST API services in Node.js
- Wrote functional tests with Jest/Jasmine
Junior Frontend Developer
Outfittery GmbH ⦁ 2014 - 2015
- Outfittery offers custom outfits composed by personal style experts
- Took ownership of main product
- Mentored frontend team
- Ensured code quality, reusability and compatibility across browsers and devices
Co-owner & Lead Frontend Engineer
Boutique Consultancy GmbH ⦁ 2012 - 2014
- Worked with established local companies and passionate entrepreneurs from all over the world to help them map out, design, and deliver their most important projects on time
- Movieo.me - A place for discovering movies. Movieo.me receives over 100,000 monthly visits and was featured on HackerNews, Product Hunt, and Fast Company . Core contributor in building product market fit, roadmap, social media campaigns, analyzing user retention and partnerships with movie advertisement agencies
- Bib + Tuck, Inc - Bib + Tuck is a curated online community of shoppable personal closets. Implemented new responsive design and scalable frontend architecture
- 24sata.hr - TV guide - Croatia’s largest local news website’s TV guide app with real-time program overview. Developed entire application as a single contributor following a given design concept
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Scroogevault.co - https://www.scroogevault.co/ - Financial Goals Tracker App
JS browser game - http://smikulic.github.io/catch-the-dragon.js/
LinkBucket - Chrome plugin for saving your links for later
WordFluff - http://wordfluff.xyz - Measure and improve the readability and marketing content of your writing with this tool.