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# Vladan Popovic
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## Senior software and systems engineer
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"Bulevar Oslobodjenja" 150/51, 11042 Belgrade, Serbia
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Tel : +381621436099
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2020-02-03 17:40:21 +01:00
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E-mail: vladanovic@gmail.com
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## Profile
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Skilled software developer and systems engineer experienced in multiple fields
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with around 20 years of professional experience. FOSS enthusiast, honorary
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member of Macedonia's Free Software NGO and Belgrade's first hackerspace. My
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[**Linked-In**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladan-popovic-957ab733),
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[**GitHub**](https://github.com/vladan>) and [**my selfhosted Gitea
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server**](https://gitea.vp.mk/vladan) may provide more info if needed.
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### Skills and toolset
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Experienced developer designing and automating distributed and monolith systems
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on various infrastructures. Keen on refactoring for the greater good. I'm a
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long time GNU/Linux user of many flavors (regularly use Arch, CentOS, Fedora,
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Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, etc.). As an IDE I use neovim and Emacs, preferably
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Sphinx (rst) and PlantUML for documentation but markdown happens on daily level
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as well.
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Python is the language and ecosystem I have the most experience with. I've done
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a bunch of web apps in Django, Flask, SqlAlchemy, etc., used async network
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communication with gevent and asyncio, RPC for some IoT projects, in love with
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uWSGI ... and also write small helper / automation scripts in Python (and bash
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if really small) almost every day.
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Rust is the language I spend most of my free time with, from low-level queues
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to frontend web applications in WebAssembly, for which I gladly use Elm ...
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Ocaml 5.0 (with Eio) is next in line :) some things from this paragraph can be
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found on [**my gitea server**](https://gitea.vp.mk/explore/repos).
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I have fair experience with Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, MQTT, ZMQ for message
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distribution and Protobuf, FlatBuffers, Cap'n Proto for packing objects. NoSQL
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with Apache CouchDB and fair development experience with PostreSQL.
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For virtualization I use KVM / QEMU for personal needs, and I'm pretty fond of
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the new microvm approaches such as Firecracker, Cloud Hypervisor et al.
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Professionaly I used to manage infrastructure on AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack.
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Used to love Ansible, but now I'm more of a fan of Fedora CoreOS / Silverblue
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(OSTree based distros) for building images and setting up workload
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environments.
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### Languages
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Macedonian is my native language. I speak English and Serbian fluently and have
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a fair knowledge of German, with a C2 degree in 2001.
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## Work Experience
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#### [Aiven](https://aiven.io/) (2021-2022) - Site Reliability Engineer
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SRE in a dynamic multicloud setup consisting of tens of tousands of nodes,
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offering managed Postgres, Kafka, Clickhouse, Mysql, Elastic/Opensearch, etc.
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#### Sigma Technology (2019-2021) - Senior Engineer
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Consultant in Ericsson LabOps team in Linköping - Sweden. Worked on automating
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the infrastructure procurement for the R&D department in Ericssons own private
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cloud management solution running on-site. My responsibilities included
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implementing best practices by setting up automations, reviewing most of the
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code in Gerrit and maintaining a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline (code-test-deploy
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automation).
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#### Seavus - Senior Engineer (2018-2019)
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Responsible for maintaining a big data pipeline for Sunrise, a Swiss Telecom
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provider. Based on the Hortonworks appliance (Ambari, Spark, Kafka, HDFS,
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Hive) with the code written purely in Scala.
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#### TradeCore - Python Lead (2017-2018)
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Reduced the technical debt by refactoring, planning and discovering bottlenecks
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and bad/redundant implementations. Improved the development flow, enforced a
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stronger code review practice and python coding standards for the main product
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written in Django, which also utilized PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Celerry, etc.
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Introduced a solid CI/CD infrastructure by automating the Selenium tests and
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frontend packaging for ~25 environments, GitLab Review Apps, etc.
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#### Itekako - Python Lead (2012-2013, 2014-2017)
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Designed a scalable cloud solution and built a complete platform for home
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security cameras with Python, JSON-RPC with TinyRPC, gevent, Protobuf, FFMpeg,
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uWSGI and Live555, hosted on AWS. Reduced a couple of clients’ development and
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deployment overhead by dockerizing their complete infrastructures. Created a
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machine-generated-content service by implementing a ranking algorithm in
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PostgreSQL and optimized critical DB queries.
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#### RedHat - Software Engineer - OpenStack (2013-2014)
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Development and RPM packaging on OpenStack Nova. Tested, debugged and deployed
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various OpenStack scenarios and use cases.
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#### Asseko - Software Developer (2010-2012)
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Part of a new team working on a complete rewrite of a legacy proprietary
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Banking Software to C# and MSSQL.
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