🎯 I'm a result-driven 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿/𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 with 20 years of professional experience in different domains, including the 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆, 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼. 

🚀 My mission is to provide 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 focused on architecture, the best agile practices, passionately 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 to deliver innovative, 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀, working closely with customers and developing software products on different platforms.

🎓 As a 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 I published 20+ papers and book chapters in international conferences and journals (having more than 440+ citations and h-index 11 on Google Scholar), obtaining 𝗣𝗵.𝗗. 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀. Also, I have been involved as a 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿—member of ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and GOAI Research group. 

🧑‍💼 I work as a professional 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 for people on engineering leadership positions.

✍🏻 Additionally, I am a 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿, who helps more than 190,000 engineers, managers, and architects to build great careers, products, and teams through various platforms and channels.

𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲:

📌 Leadership
📌 Team building
📌 Making things efficient
📌 Creating self-contained systems
📌 Be highly organized and make others too
📌 Focus on strategy/goals
📌 Make things happen
📌 Career Coaching
📌 Mentoring
📌 Line management
📌 Effective client communication
📌 Software Architecture
📌 DevOps mindset
📌 Cloud (Azure)
📌 .NET/C# (ASP.NET/WPF)
📌 SQL Server/NoSQL
📌 Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
📌 Product/project management

📲 Feel free to contact me here via LinkedIn!

Microsoft MVP Award for Developer Technologies

Microsoft MVP

Best paper award for "Model Transformations to Share Rules Between SWRL and R2ML"

University scholarship in fourth year for superior academic achievements at Graduate School of Business Studies.

Ranked top 1% in class at The School of Electrical Engineering of Applied Studies

LinkedIn

Executive Coaching

Erickson Coaching International

The Art and Science of Coaching

NLP Starter

Atria Group International

Discover PCM

High Performance Team Coaching

Management Excellence at Microsoft: Model, Coach, Care

Managing Your Well-Being as a Leader

Human-Centric Leaders

EssenZ Leadership Program

Body Language for Leaders

Becoming an Impactful and Influential Leader

Scaled Agile, Inc.

Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner

Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist

Being a Good Mentor

Microsoft

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate

Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Transitioning from Technical Professional to Manager

Developing Executive Presence

Influencing Others

Selling to Executives

Agile Architecture & Flow Analysis

Agile Leadership

Clean Code

Feedback training

Hands On Git

Machine learning crash course

Professional Agile Leadership

Security on Projects

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Graduate School of Business Studies, Belgrade

The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies

English

Serbian

GOOD OLD AI

.NET User Group

IEEE Computer Society

3MD is a family-owned company and a leading software provider of Transportation Management Systems (TMS) based in Chicago, US. The TMS platform includes solutions for transport companies and carriers of all sizes. The platform assists companies in planning, organizing, and billing rides.

In my role as CTO, I'm focused on the following:

- Owner the technology vision and roadmap
- Laying the foundations of scaling the technical platform and scaling the teams.
- Establishing and executing technology strategy for delivering the most possible outcome for our customers.
- Growing a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with the company values.
- Driving engineering excellence and ensuring teams are delivering high-quality results.
- Setting up a local office in Belgrade.
- Growing engineering team from 0 to 10+ exceptional talents.
- Driving collaboration with external partners.
- Delivering the flagship product according to expectations.
- Ensuring the product roadmap is well thought out and feasible for each team.
- Understanding the teams’ impediments and removing them.
- Defining clear career (progression) paths.
- Regular 1:1 meetings.
- Helping people grow and progress in their careers.
- Regular, constructive performance feedback.
- Conducting performance and salary reviews.
- Ensuring that individuals are energized and motivated by their work.
- Organizing training management.
- Solution architecture.
- Introduction of DevOps mindset.
- Implementation of .NET/Azure solutions / PoCs.
- Administration of Azure/Azure DevOps.
- Definition of QA procedures.

Projects:

- Trucking Hub platform
- Trucking Hub mobile apps
- VoIP system

Chief Technology Officer

TechWorld With Milan

I help more than 190,000 engineers, managers and architects to build great careers, products and teams.

Writing on the following platforms: 

- https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/.
- https://milan.milanovic.org/#posts. 
- https://dzone.com/users/3859449/milanm.html.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/milanmilanovic/recent-activity/shares/.
- https://twitter.com/milan_milanovic.

Author

Zühlke Group

Worked with different clients, from small startups, over large international companies to FAANG companies.

Accomplishments:

- Completed responsibilities as a thought leader with expertise in Software and solution architecture, .NET, Azure and Cloud.
- Acquired a thorough understanding of the ecosystems and fundamental guiding principles of software development.
- Supported the Zühlke Community and promoted a productive workplace where team members inspire one another. shared use cases frequently, ran technical trainings, and generated training materials to support ongoing professional development.
- Increased social media traffic and digital exposure by attending conferences, writing articles for LinkedIn, Blog and different magazines and portals.
- Offered customized mentoring for team members, sharing important industry insights to produce deeper comprehension and to considerably increase overall skill efficiency while taking on projects.

Worked on customer projects as a Software/Solution Architect and team lead in distributed teams with Switzerland, Germany, Austria, UK and Singapore. My responsibilities include:

- Creating the IT architectures for cutting-edge, ground-breaking software solutions and giving all clients in the domain high-level strategic advice.
- Cloud architecture (Azure).
- DevOps.
- Requirements engineering.
- Code reviews.
- Different roles in internal organization.
- Coaching less experienced colleagues / mentoring.
- Conducting technical interviews.

Customer projects:

- Advanced speech recognition engine (enterprise): Speech to text recognition engine in the Cloud. Tech stack: SAFe, .NET, Azure, Azure DevOps, WCF, SQL Server.

Principal Consultant

Accomplishments:

- Led a local Cloud topic group (CoP) for Serbia, Bulgaria and Portugal with 150+ people, making 20+ people certified for Azure and AWS, setting it from the ground up, as well as group-wide Azure and AWS teams with 170+ people.

- Led group-wide Azure and AWS teams (CoP) for UK, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Singapore with 170+ people, enabling regular meetings and knowledge exchange.

My responsibilities included:
- Defining group mission and goals.
- Defining collaboration and communication channels.
- Organizing topic group events and internal organization.
- Sharing knowledge internally and externally.
- Defining tools to be used for communication and knowledge sharing.
- Engaging in regular communication with team members and others.
- Driving Cloud topic towards capability.
- Maintaining relations with other Cloud capabilities on the group level.
- Job profiles definition with HR.
- Searching for right people.
- Conducting technical interviews.

Regional Cloud Capability Lead

Accomplishments:

- Recieved overall score of 3.6/4 from peers.
- Got overall good feedbacks.

People management:
- Helping people grow and progress in their careers;
- Regular 1:1 meetings;
- Coaching and mentoring;
- Performance appraisal and feedback;
- Regular, constructive performance feedback
- Evaluations, defining goals, OKR's & SMART Objectives;
- Mediation and conflict resolution;
- Defining job profiles;

Team Lead / Engineering Manager

Accomplishments:
- Lead a team of developers from Belgrade side in a distributed setup with Switzerland colleagues.
- Enabled successful project distribution for a major client.
- Led Thought Leadership initiative for ZRS.
- Given multiple talks/workshops on different topics (architecture, cloud, testing, clean code, mentoring, goals, etc.).

Worked on customer projects as part of a distributed .NET DEV team with Switzerland and Singaporean colleagues. My responsibilities included:
- Team architect.
- Team lead (Beg).
- Requirement engineering.
- Code reviews.
- Coaching / mentoring.
- Software/solution architecture, design, testing and implementation.
- Conducting technical interviews.

Customer projects:
- Integrated investment advisory platform for relationship managers of a private bank. Tech stack: Javascript/TypeScript, C#/.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Stored procedures, AngularX, RxJS, ngrx, Log4net, Jobbr. The biggest account and project in Zuhlke Group: 50+ people, 1mil+ LOC.

Lead Software Architect

Worked on customer projects as part of a distributed .NET DEV team with Switzerland and Singaporean colleagues. My responsibilities included:
- Software architecture, design, testing and implementation.
- Preparing bids for projects from technical side.
- Conducting technical interviews.

Customer projects:
- Insurance Portal for Corporate Customers. Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC/Core/Web-API, Entity Framework, IdentityServer3, SQL Server Integration Services, RavenDB, Kendo UI, TypeScript, LESS, TFS. (november 2017.-june 2018.). 600k+ LOC.
- GUI for Media Processing System. Tech stack: WPF, MVVM, C#, Feature Based, FluentAPI, MVVMLight, ReFit, Aspose, SourceAFIS. (june 2018.-september 2018.)

Expert Software Engineer

First Principles Consultancy

I operated as an independent software development expert, software architect, mentor, trainer, programmer, speaker, and writer. As I have done in previous roles I’m assisting my international clients to modernize their software development. I am at my best working with projects and teams that need a boost, in collaboration, performance and in technology. Some examples of my work include:

- As an agile coach I turn-around organizations from traditional ways of working to Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and continuous delivery. 
- As a career coach, I guide engineers, engineering managers, tech leads, etc.
- As a Fractional CTO I implement new technologies in organizations, such as software architectures, modern modeling tooling, RESTful services, APIs, C#/.NET, functional programming, Cloud technologies, such as Azure and Azure DevOps.
- As an architecture coach I help organizations restructure unmaintainable legacy code base to new flexible and tested software architectures.
- As a software architect I create front-end and back-end frameworks and code, using technologies such as HTML5/CCS3, Bootstrap, Angular, C#, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, Xamarin, WPF.
- As a mentor and teacher I present seminars and (in-house) training courses on a variety of topics such as  Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Software Development, Software Architecture, Microservices, Continuous Delivery, Design Patterns, Domain-Driven Design, Modeling and UML, Clean Code, .NET and Testing.

Independent Consultant, Owner

Electric Power Industry of Serbia

Accomplishments:

I led an organization of 40+ people that worked on the development of different software solutions by using Microsoft and Java-based, as well as some legacy tech stack. Some of applications we implemented are:

• Vehicle maintenance management system (Web - 100+ users).
• Procurement solution, which includes elements of the plan to implementation of procurement, contracts, etc. (Web - 500+ users).
• Project management team member for SAP ERP implementation, acting as internal audit (june 2014.  - december 2015.).
• Oracle UCM - document management system (support lead).

I was responsible for:
• Leading main software implementation projects.
• People management of 40+ people.
• Helping people grow and progress in their careers 
• Regular, constructive performance feedback
• Harmonising engineering processes, driving consistent standards and approaches throughout the team.
• Product development.
• Keeping the team up to date with the latest software development technologies and methodologies.
• Coaching the team on agile software development best practices. 
• Developing short and long term strategy for the team to meet the company’s goals and objectives. Planning and monitoring the successful implementation of this strategy.
• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc.
• Overseeing internal product development.
• Supervising other software projects.
• Defining implementation times and deadlines (for development and support).
• Leading technical support.
• Defining new internal organizational structure.
• Internal staff recruiting.
• Planning and tracking procurements for a department.
• Management of the commission for the inventory of concessions, intellectual property and software in company.
• Administration and configuration of SQL Server 2008/2014 (backup, migrations, maintenance), Team Foundation Server and Application Server (IIS).
• Management of company internal portal and web site.

Head of Engineering

Software architect and a team leader for software engineers developing ERP-based applications using .NET stack and also:
• Built a team of developers and business analysts from 0 to 10+ people.
• Defined standards, tools and processes that were used for solution development within company.
• Line management.
• Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc.
• Design of the solutions architecture.
• Framework design.
• Product development management.
• Defining new internal organizational structure.
• Internal staff recruiting.
• Scrum Master.

Implemented projects by using .NET technology stack: 
• Materials management (Web - 400+ users)
• Asset management (Web - 300+ users)
• Invoicing (Web - 10+ users)

Head of Technical Software Development Department

Senior software engineer and a team leader for following implemented projects (.NET stack):
• Storehouse calculation distributed application (Desktop), architecture and implementation (ASP.NET + C# + TFS + MS SQL Server).
• SQL Server Integration Services-based data migration from legacy system.
•  Administration and configuration of SQL Server 2008 (backup, migrations, maintenance), Team Foundation Server and IIS.
• Creation of procedures for data backup, programming style, user requirements form, etc.

Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader

Software developer for following projects (Java stack):
• Invoicing (Eclipse + EJB3 + Hibernate + Spring framework + Acegi Security + Struts 2 + JUnit 4 + JMock + JFreeChart + JasperReports + SVN + JIRA + Patterns).
• ArchiDoc Web Document Management System (Netbeans + EJB2 + Struts + JSP + JUnit 3 + Patterns).
• Other projects ( CMS for Web portal & CD presentation, E-commerce Web site implementation in PHP/MySQL,...) .
 • Teaching and training software developers, organizing courses, etc. Held Java course for 40 software developers (Basic, Advanced, Web, J2EE). Duration: one year.
 • Consultant for various Java projects.

Software Developer Consultant

GOOD OLD AI Research Network

- Worked as a researcher during post-graduate studies in the area of Modeling and metamodeling, Model transformations, Rule languages and Business models. 

- Published 20+ papers in international conferences and journals, received awards for best papers. 

- Involved in international conferences and journals as a editorial board member, program chair, reviewer and program committee member. 

- Cited 430+ times.

- Google Scholar h-index: 10.

- Member of ACM, the IEEE Computer Society and GOAI Research group.

Researcher

Abell Soft

Implemented projects:
• E-Store application for on-line selling of books in PHP/MySQL. 
 • Complete code and design of a business packages FinanceBusiness for small and medium companies in Microsoft Visual C++, using MFC, Win32, PHP and MS Access (DAO, ODBC). 
 • Coded, designed and managed multiple web sites using HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, visual editors like Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage so as other graphical tools. 
 • Active IT System consulting for large number of companies.

Junior Software Developer

Municipality of Lajkovac

System Administrator

Chief Roadblock Remover and Learning Enabler | Thought Leader | Software Architect | High-Performance & Career Coach | Author | Speaker | Building great products, building great teams!

Chief of DevOps | Thought Leader | Transformation Coach | Trainer | Speaker | Organizer of DevOpsDays Zürich & DevOps Meetup Zürich | Bringing People, Process and Technology together to continuously deliver value!

DevOps Roadmap 2023.

Product Manager at 3MD

Senior Software Engineer | Frontend at 3MD

Frontend Engineer at 3MD

Software Engineer at 3MD

TMS platform includes solutions for transport companies and couriers of all sizes. It assists companies in planning, organizing, and billing rides.

Transportation Management System

Speech to text recognition engine in the Cloud. Tech stack: SAFe, .NET, WCF, SQL Server.

Advanced speech recognition engine

To meet the growing demands of customers, a strategic solution is designed to assist client advisors in portfolio management and to support proposed transactions for compliance under the latest legislation. The focus is on integrating existing and new components with several Scrum teams in a "scrum of scrum" approach in order to meet the regulatory requirements in the shortest possible time and to lay the foundation for the long-term development of the platform. Tech stack: C#/.NET, EntityFramework, T-SQL, Protractor, Cake, Angular, TypeScript, Visual Studio, Git.

Integrated investment advisory platform for relationship managers of a private bank

Tech stack: WPF, MVVM, C#, Feature Based.

GUI for Media Processing System

One of the leading global insurers introduces an information portal for its corporate customers. The portal provides 24⁄7 online access to insurance data like polices, claims, or risk assessments. Its modular structure allows onboarding of various business segments to support customers with actionable insights into their risk situation. The project team enhances, maintains and operates the portal as managed service.

Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC/Core, Entity Framework, SQL Server Integration Services, RavenDB, Kendo UI, TypeScript, LESS, TFS

 Insurance Portal for Corporate Customers

- Desktop application for prepaid recharge for all main mobile operators in region, with distributable libraries (WPF/C#).
- Mobile application for prepaid recharge for all main mobile operators in region (Android).

Top Up desktop and mobile apps

Design and implementation - team leader (two implementations, v2.0 ASP.NET-based, and v1.0 Java/Struts2-based).

Coal invocing

Web and Windows application, design and implementation for company with more than 100 warehouses - team leader (ASP.NET + Windows forms + C# + JQuery + MS SQL Server + ADO.NET + MS reports + TFS).

Materials management solution

Complete procurement solution, a web-based system, which includes elements of the plan to implementation of procurement, contracts, etc., for large size company. Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC, Entity framework, SQL Server, JQuery. 

Procurement solution

Vehicle maintenance, web based information system designed to support, facilitate and improve explotation, maintainance and service of vehicles. Tech stack: C#, ASP.NET MVC, KnockoutJs, Entity framework, SQL Server, TFS.

Vechile maintenance solution

Oracle UCM Implementation

Project management team member for SAP ERP implementation, acting as internal audit (june 2014. - december 2015.).

Sap ERP implementation

Principal Software Engineer at LegalZoom

Distinguished Professor of Learning Analytics at Monash University

rBPMN editor is a project that implements the rBPMN language. The rBPMN language allows for using different types of business rules as first-class citizens in modeling of business processes. The currently supported types of business rules are: integrity, derivation, production, and reaction (aka ECA rules).

https://code.google.com/archive/p/rbpmneditor/

Rule-based BPMN Implementation

Marketable AI use cases. Software development. All opinions are my own

Researcher, Developer and Teacher

Visiting Professor,  L3S Research Center & Research Professor of AI, University of Huddersfield

Engineering Lead at Zalando SE

Strategy developer, Entrepreneur & Software designer – MSc AI, MBA

Carlos Viegas Damasio

Norbert E. Fuchs

Dimitris Plexousakis

Product Owner at 1&1 Telecommunication SE

Rik Gerrits

Facilitate the use of rule formalisms and technologies for inference-enabled Web applications by developing an integrated rule modelling, visualization, verbalization and markup framework that is supported by tools. 

The REWERSE Working Group I1 on Rule Markup Languages

Researcher at Institute Mihailo Pupin

The project presents an implementation of sharing rules between two rule languages from different domains: OCL (Object Constraint Language) together with UML and SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language) together with OWL.

Sharing Rules Between OCL/UML and SWRL/OWL - ATL Implementation

Design and implementation of a DMS (Netbeans + EJB2 + Struts + JSP + JUnit 3)

ArchiDoc Web Document Management System

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WeAreDevelopers

Program Advisory Board Member for WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2023 in Berlin from 27-28 July.

Presentation about Fundamentals of Cloud Computing to students

Startit

Mentor for: career development, management, software engineering and teams.

Link: https://startit.rs/zajednica/mentori/.

High school Lajkovac

Giving a talk about software development topics to high school students.

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