Ante Lucic
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since August 18, 2015
Ante, with over ten years of experience as a product-minded engineer in NYC and SF startups, has demonstrated expertise in managing engineering teams and consistently delivering user-centered, delightful experiences. With strong back-end skills and proficiency in building user interfaces using React, he thrives on tackling challenges and solving diverse problems. Ante is a valuable asset in creating and delivering successful tech products.
Portfolio
Experience
- Redis - 10 years
- Laravel - 10 years
- PHP - 10 years
- PHPUnit - 10 years
- Agile Software Development - 6 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 5 years
- TypeScript - 4 years
- Go - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Linux, Docker, Go, PHP, TypeScript, Agile Software Development, Project Scoping, Management
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is an application that used a third-party real-time API in PHP that served data to a JavaScript application over WebSockets.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Cherry (YC W19)
- Became the first engineering hire at Cherry and worked on sunsetting Slack-only experience while working on a new web-based product. Scoped and implemented admin and customer dashboards, reporting, and auditing tools.
- Worked with Stripe API for handling real-time card authorizations.
- Improved observability and monitoring, integrating with NewRelic, Sentry, and log management tools.
- Helped establish the onboarding process for new engineers joining the team.
Full-stack Engineer (Contract)
Refinery29
- Worked on distribution platform stability and health alerts, which was important for a distribution stakeholder who wanted to know the health status of our distribution platforms.
- Optimized the company's email code, as a part of the media team, so they could fully take advantage of personalization. Introduced Gearman jobs that could be tracked in the dashboards to better understand how the email code operates.
- Contributed significantly to removing and refactoring legacy code to bring up codebase health.
- Took the initiative and ported all of the existing Gearman jobs and intervals to the new architecture that paved the way to a PHP7 upgrade when the decision was made to migrate to a new system.
- Launched all of the company's distribution platforms in 2016. Supported those platforms with new features and bug fixes.
- Built a delivery API that was used by our responsive web application.
- Worked with in-memory databases and our caching layer, including delivery API, routing, and other tasks required to support our responsive web application, like breadcrumbs and navigation.
- Provided code support in Refinery29's shift to video, anything that was required, from data migrations to building delivery APIs. Created an API to support new video series features in our CMS platform.
- Implemented Facebook Instant Articles and experimented with chatbots.
- Architected new products like responsive sweepstakes templates and third-party quiz integration, which was our codebase's first usage of web sockets.
Freelance Web Developer
Alo Alo d.o.o
- Architected a web application for tracking mobile phone repairs.
- Implemented a custom CMS solution using Laravel framework.
- Developed per-employee statistics reports.
- Built a WPF desktop application for organizing student employee shifts.
- Built a WPF desktop application for calculating the best cellphone contract plan for customers.
Experience
React Native Cheatsheet
https://github.com/alucic/react-native-cheat-sheetUser Role Laravel PHP Package
Yeoman Generator
RESTful-APIs Slides
https://github.com/alucic/RESTful-APIshttp://www.mscommunity.hr/event/30-druzenje-restful-apis/334
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Split, FESB - Split
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Node.js, FFmpeg, Stripe API
Tools
GitHub, Git, RabbitMQ, Sublime Text, PhpStorm, Jenkins, NGINX
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, PHP 7, Go, TypeScript
Frameworks
Laravel, Kohana, Slim, PHPUnit, Express.js, Gearman
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Linux, DigitalOcean, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI), Management
Storage
Redis, Redis Cache, MongoDB, MySQL
Other
Front-end Development, Web Development, RTMP, Video on Demand (VOD), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Project Scoping, Card Payments
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