Gregor Ambrozic

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Member since August 10, 2015

Gregor is a full-stack software engineer with more than 12 years of work experience, mostly developing in Java and working with databases. He is very communicative and he loves learning new things.

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Portfolio

Freelance
Java, Spring, Grails, jQuery, AngularJS
Fieldoo.com
Java, Spring MVC, MySQL, jQuery
Epilog d.o.o
Java, Swing, Oracle PL/SQL and SQL

Experience

Java, 11 years
SQL, 10 years
Hibernate, 6 years
Spring MVC, 4 years
jQuery, 3 years
AngularJS, 2 years
Grails, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Eclipse, IntelliJ Idea, Git

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is being one of only two developers who built and maintained a social network website with more than 150.000 users.

Employment

Software Engineer
Freelance
2014 - PRESENT
- Created a Liferay intranet solution for a small sized company.
- Worked on a web application for a private jet booking company.
- Create a Magnolia powered website with apps for a client company.
- Developed a rolling road (trucks on trains) booking application for a client company.
- Developed a back-end for JWS/TLS communication with a system for fiscal verification of invoices.
Technologies: Java, Spring, Grails, jQuery, AngularJS
Software Engineer
Fieldoo.com
2012 - 2014
- Developed core and new features of a social network website.
- Provided database optimization for a high-load website.
- Created various web scrapers and crawlers to fetch data used for analyses.
- Did ad hoc engineering problem solving.
- Cooperated with owners to help shape new features.
Technologies: Java, Spring MVC, MySQL, jQuery
Software Engineer
Epilog d.o.o
2011 - 2012
- Developed new back-end features with Java and PL/SQL.
- Implemented solutions on-site with customers.
- Created new UI components to be used in the flagship product.
- Designed and implemented a new translation module in the back-end.
- Communicated with clients remotely and on-site.
Technologies: Java, Swing, Oracle PL/SQL and SQL
Software Developer
Medius d.o.o.
2006 - 2011
- Developed back-end application features with EJB, JBoss, and Hibernate.
- Developed UI features with Eclipse SWT and RCP.
- Did ad-hoc database queries and programming.
- Built an automatic reporting solution with Eclipse BIRT.
- Developed web application features with JSF and SEAM.
- Maintained production applications.
Technologies: Java, Eclipse RCP, EJB, Oracle, SEAM, Linux
Junior Software Developer
Microgramm d.o.o.
2005 - 2006
- Developed web application features.
- Developed features for web programming interfaces.
- Administrated PostgreSQL database and ad-hoc queries.
- Wrote documentation.
- Wrote automated tests and did manual testing.
Technologies: Perl, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Junior SQL Developer
Simobil d.o.o.
2003 - 2005
- Rewrote the automatic reporting system.
- Wrote Ad-hoc SQL queries for data used in other departments.
- Took care of data warehouse administration over the weekends.
- Implemented features on data marts.
- Optimized SQL queries for automatic periodic reporting.
Technologies: Oracle SQL and PL/SQL

Experience

Fieldoo.com (Development)
http://www.fieldoo.com/
Worked as a full-stack engineer. Tech stack was Java/Spring MVC/jQuery/MemcachedMySQL/MongoDB. I did a large part of back-end code including optimizing database queries, writing internet scrapers/parsers, and doing OAUTH2 with different providers.
JetQuote (Development)
https://www.jetquote.net/
Worked mostly as a back-end developer for a private jet booking company. The tech stack was Java/Spring/Grails/AngularJS/MySQL.
Why Should Java Developers Give Grails a Chance? (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/grails/should-java-developers-give-grails-chance
Java may have stood the test of time, but it can still be a source of great frustration among many web developers. Dealing with its verbosity and infrastructure overhead, for example, can take hours, even for the most basic needs. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Gregor Ambrozic shows us how Grails and its many appealing features can be a viable alternative to traditional Java web applications frameworks.

Skills

Languages
Java, SQL
Frameworks
Spring MVC, Hibernate, Grails, AngularJS
Tools
Eclipse IDE, Subversion (SVN), IntelliJ IDEA, Git
Platforms
Windows, Oracle, Linux
Libraries/APIs
jQuery
Storage
Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Extreme programming

Education

B.Sc. degree in Computer and Information Science
Univerza v Ljubljani - Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 - 2007