Matej Cica

Takko is a social platform for content creators. It enables creators to monetize their content. It's a place where content creators can meet and share ideas and resources, collaborate, and help one another. The system is composed of REST API written in Ruby on Rails and an iOS app.

Personalised Offers is Flooid’s cloud-hosted, real-time offer and voucher management solution. Retailers with Personalised Offers can:
- Create, manage and validate their own vouchers, and vouchers created by third parties across all channels in real time
- Consolidate a customer’s vouchers and third party coupons in a cloud-based offer wallet
- Link vouchers and coupons to a sales-channel owned basket benefit and deliver true omnichannel offers
- Use single or multiple linked events to influence a customer’s behaviours and journey
- Utilize the solution as a “loyalty lite”, managing programmes and automatically rewarding customer behavior
- Manage staff discounts, and initial “friends & family” offers or discounts
Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Git, Mercurial, REST API integrations, Javascript, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Docker, Nginx

Natixis is a French corporate and investment bank created in November 2006 from the merger of the asset management and investment banking operations of Natexis Banque Populaire and IXIS, the second-largest banking player in France. I was hired as a senior Ruby on Rails developer to help build a back end which is based on microservice architecture. The back end uses the core banking system of Fidor, a German digital bank and among the world's top fintech companies, to provide support for payments, money transfers, and other banking-related things. The back end is consumed by mobile devices through an app called Banxy. There are Android and iOS versions of the mobile apps. Natixis' back end relies on some third-party services, including Siron, IDnow, and CBS.

Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, MySQL, Linux, Docker, Jenkins, REST API, RabbitMQ, Microservice Architecture, Git, jQuery

Comparative Agility is a startup, agility assessment and continuous improvement platform. With Comparative Agility you gain the insights and identify concrete areas of improvement inside your company, where you can make a meaningful difference.
Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, PostgreSQL, Git, Vue.js, REST API, Heroku

­Pulsr is a social discovery application meant to answer the age ­old question "What should we do tonight?"

By leveraging a large database of events and local businesses, and creating new channels for ambient social dialogue, Pulsr is an invaluable tool in leading a vibrant social life; thereby empowering people to get up and get out.

Stowaway Cosmetics is an eCommerce site specialized in selling makeup. I was hired to build a new REST API that provides endpoints for an isomorphic app (Node.js and React with Redux), using the Spree eCcommerce framework. Besides that, I wrote migration scripts in Ansible, to migrate the database from AWS RDS to Heroku.

Technologies used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Spree framework, PostgreSQL, Node.js, React.js, Redux, AWS, Heroku, and Ansible.

Save Stand is a web app that provides information to hunters about planning hunting season and hunting days. The application provides services for scheduling and reservation of hunting stands so hunters can easily ensure their spot and plan their hunting seasons in the future.

Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, jQuery, Facebook API, Google API, Google Maps, Stripe, Amazon AWS

Trophy Stack is one of the leading web apps for amateur hunters in the United States. It’s a social network site for hunters.
Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, jQuery, Facebook API, Google API, Twitter API, Amazon AWS

Promotions Management is a web app used for creating and scheduling effective promotion campaigns, contests, and events for a given organization.
Technologies used: Node.js, Backbone.js, MongoDB

Immediate Insights is a powerful survey engine that enables survey management. It can be used as a stand-alone service to deploy surveys on your website(s) and client sites.
Technologies used: C#, WCF Services, ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, ASP.NET SignalR, SQL Server, MongoDB, jQuery.

Atlas is a PhoneGap app used for time tracking employees or members of a given organization.
Technologies used: C#, WCF Services, Web API, Windows Azure, Entity Framework, LINQ, SQL Server, AngularJS, PhoneGap, jQuery mobile