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Vladan Popovic
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+381 62 1436099
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vladanovic@gmail.com
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28.06.2023
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Dear _________,
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I'm Vladan, a software developer and systems engineer with ~20 years of
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professional experience spanning in multiple fields, from web development to
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systems adminstrator / devops to SRE.
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I'm really excited to apply for a Rust developer role at _________. I
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understand I might be lacking professional Rust experience, but I really like
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the language and ecosystem that I truly believe I'll make good pretty quickly.
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I have experience writing some services in Rust, like a [**Git frontend (JSON API
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+ SPA) I made for an ActivityPub federated selfhosted
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forge**](https://git.vp.mk/ui/git-social.git/master/about) which unfortunately
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never saw the light of day due to the highly experimental libraries I used
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([**tide**](https://github.com/http-rs/tide) on the backend +
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[**seed**](https://github.com/seed-rs/seed) for the SPA app), but of course the
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main issues being lack of time and energy. I'm eager to return to it at some
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point though, started rewriting it in
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[**Axum**](https://gitea.vp.mk/git-social/git-social-server) and feel pretty
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enthusiastic again.
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Another Rust project I have contributed to is a [**lock free SPMC
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queue**](https://github.com/filipdulic/bus-queue) that me and a friend used to
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produce a high bandwith FOREX streaming service (~500 messages/sec to 10K
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consumers is what we've measured at most on our laptops). Although my
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participation in the code wasn't as large as my friend's, I heavily
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participated in the design phase, had daily pair-programming sessions and made
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a lot of contributions in the server streaming the data, rather than the
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bus-queue itself.
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In my free time this year I started working on a personal e-bike tracker device
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based on esp32 and a sim800l GSM modem. The code can be found
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[**here**](https://gitea.vp.mk/e-bike-tracker/). It's not something I'm extremely
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proud of, but it's my first ever embedded project and I value it as a learning
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experience.
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Postgres is the RDBMS I have the most experience with. I used to manage a
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relatively big number of Postgres clusters at my previous work, debugged
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version migration failures on weekly level and monitored, fixed backup/
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out-of-sync and similar issues on daily level, plugin failures during version
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upgrades, etc.
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I'm also a huge free and opensource software enthusiast, an honorary member of
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Macedonia's Free Software NGO and a member of Belgrade's first hackerspace
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where I used to promote free and opensource software, teach python, git, web
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technologies, linux, system administration, etc.
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Wish you all the best,
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Vladan
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