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