Boris Pavacic
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Boris has twenty years of software development experience including four years at a startup and seven years at Google. He has proven his leadership abilities by being a lead developer in several positions as well as the CTO of an early-stage venture. Boris has had the most experience working with C++ and Java, but is eager and willing to apply his solid coding fundamentals to a variety of applications and new technologies.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Git, Ubuntu
The most amazing...
...project I've helped develop was a Google-scale distributed and highly optimized database query execution engine.
Work Experience
Software Engineer and Consultant
Independent Contractor/Consultant
- Consulted and developed software services for various projects remotely.
- Mentored early-stage startups at Hubraum incubator programs, which are part of Deutsche Telekom.
- Migrated a massive database to a new DynamoDB schema, improving latency and costs.
- Migrated the client's infrastructure to highly available microservices running on Kubernetes.
Senior Software Engineer
- Worked on distributed SQL query engine, a powerful, fast, and distributed system for executing large transformations over flat data with SQL-like layer on top of thousands of cores.
- Worked on Supersonic – a library for extremely fast processing of column-based data. The project involved using C++ with template magic and was later open sourced.
- Created a coupons system for AdWords, Google Apps, and other Google products (Java and mostly internal technologies).
- Worked on a system for analyzing and annotating live TV content.
- Contributed to Google core infrastructure projects such as BigTable and BigQuery.
CTO
Uniqall
- Managed a small team of developers.
- Created a highly concurrent, cross-platform media processing system in C++.
- Grew the product from idea to prototype to a marketable product.
Lead Developer
Brukart
- Worked on part-time development of various web-based B2B and B2C applications. Most were based on LAMP technology stack (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP).
- Developed a highly customizable content managing system (CMS).
Lead Developer
Omega Software d.o.o.
- Integrated hardware-based HASP copy protection with UltiCAD software.
- Started the Gridborg project (host media processing software), and developed the first prototype version as a proof of concept.
Experience
Air quality Lesser Poland
Supersonic
https://github.com/google/supersonicInternational Olympiad in Informatics
Skills
Languages
Go, Java, PHP, Bash, C, C++, Python, SQL, VB
Frameworks
Swagger
Tools
Subversion (SVN), Git, Perforce, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse IDE, Google Compute Engine (GCE), AWS ELB
Paradigms
Cross-platform, High-performance Computing, Agile Software Development, Unit Testing, Distributed Programming, Concurrent Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), MapReduce, Scrum
Platforms
Linux, Google App Engine, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Eclipse, LAMP, Blockchain, Android, Apache Kafka
Storage
BigTable, MySQL, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis
Other
Back-end Development, HTTP, VoIP, Optimization, Big Data, Front-end, Software Engineering, Google
Education
Uncompleted Degree in Computer Science
University of Zagreb - Zagreb, Croatia
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