Marko Novakovic, Developer in Oakland, CA, United States
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Marko Novakovic

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Software Developer

Location
Oakland, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
December 27, 2016

Marko is a software engineer with over seven years of experience. He worked as a JEE back-end engineer for three years and, for the past four, he has been working as an iOS engineer on a variety or projects including games and porting to Android. He also has an M.Sc. degree from the University of Waterloo.

Objective-CJavaAgile Software DevelopmentMySQLiOSPythonLinuxCocos2dJasperReportsUIKitPostgreSQLjQueryC++CXcode

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Atom, Vim Text Editor, Xcode

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on is a port of a 3D game from iOS to Android with minimal code changes.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2012 - 2016
Pocket Gems
  • Worked on three games that were constantly in the top fifty grossing apps on the Apple's App Store during the time they were actively supported.
  • Helped port two games to the Android platform. One of the games was simultaneously launched on both iOS and Android. The port was based on Apportable's toolset.
  • Designed, created, and maintained tools for helping developers and designers streamline their work and collaboration.
  • Worked on the 3D framework that Pocket Gems used for the in-house made new-age games.
Technologies: Python, Bash, C, Xcode, Cocos2d, Objective-C

Java Engineer

2009 - 2010
PSTech
  • Worked on the customization of an Openbravo ERP project for a local client.
  • Created a tourist portal for a local client. The portal was built on top of Liferay and had many custom-made components.
  • Worked on a tool for generating various reports. The tool was built using Jasper Reports.
  • Created REST services that supported many services used internally within the company, as well as for software that was built for the clients.
Technologies: Openbravo, REST, Guice, Java

War Dragons

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/war-dragons/id958763157?mt=8
War Dragons is a visually stunning 3D real-time strategy game that puts you in control of the ultimate dragon army. Join a guild, help your teammates launch attacks in PVP, and hold off enemy raids in true real-time fashion.

Languages

Objective-C, Java, Bash, Python, Bash Script, C++, C

Frameworks

Guice, UIKit, Cocos2d, Google Guice

Libraries/APIs

JasperReports, jQuery

Tools

Xcode, Vim Text Editor, Atom

Paradigms

REST, Agile Software Development

Platforms

Linux, iOS

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL

Other

Openbravo

2010 - 2012

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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