Sinisa

Senior Frontend Developer in Zagreb, Croatia

Sinisa is a frontend developer with 8 years of experience in early stage startups and established companies. He has lived and worked in Berlin and San Francisco and is now focusing on being a remote web developer and consultant.

Sinisa is the proud co-owner of Movieo.me, a passion project he was involved in at the beginning of his career, still up and running with minimal maintenance involved and a stable user base.

Preferred technologies include React, Webpack, GraphQL, Node, and Ruby on Rails. When he’s not in front of a screen, you can find Sinisa be hiking or playing board games

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JavaScript
ES6/7
TypeScript
React
Redux
Apollo Server
GraphQL
Webpack
HTML/5
CSS/3
Bootstrap
SMACSS/BEM Structure
Ruby On Rails
NodeJS
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
RESTful API

Employment

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.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Languages

English, Croatian, German (Limited Proficiency)

Sinisa

Senior Frontend Developer in Zagreb, Croatia

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