Milos Stojanovic, Developer in Niš, Serbia
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Milos Stojanovic

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Bio

Milos develops high-performing, full-stack applications, and services. As a Laravel certified developer, he prefers using the Laravel PHP framework for writing testable, and maintainable PHP applications. In addition to his technical skills, Milos also has experience building and scaling SaaS applications from the ground up.

Portfolio

Nomadic Tribe, LLC. (via Toptal)
PHP 7, Laravel 5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Full-stack, Git, Tailwind CSS...
Nope
PHP 7, Laravel 5, Full-stack, Git, RESTful Development, HTML, NGINX, jQuery...
Playtrix Research, Inc.
PHP 7, Laravel 5, Full-stack, Git, HTML, Bulma, jQuery, Vue, Laravel, PHP...

Experience

PHP - 8 yearsJavaScript - 8 yearsMySQL - 8 yearsCodeIgniter - 7 yearsVue - 6 yearsLaravel - 6 yearsTest-driven Development (TDD) - 4 yearsFacebook API - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Sequel Pro, Sublime Text, PhpStorm, MacOS

The most amazing...

...project I've developed was a custom CMS used to manage the websites and social presence of shopping malls, and their tenants.

Work Experience

Senior Full-stack Developer

2019 - 2020
Nomadic Tribe, LLC. (via Toptal)
  • Developed most of the features for the multi-role admin portal used for managing data for the platform using Vue.js and Vuex.
  • Assisted in the development of the corporate website for the company using Nuxt.js, which included various social network-like features.
  • Implemented and documented numerous REST API endpoints used by the iOS application and the corporate website.
  • Reviewed and optimized the API endpoints and reduced the overall number of database queries per request, which made the API responses 10x faster.
  • Implemented custom plugins for a WYSIWYG editor which allows administrators to easily organize article content and add images with necessary meta-data.
  • Collaborated on implementing continuous deployments using BitBucket pipelines and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Technologies: PHP 7, Laravel 5, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Full-stack, Git, Tailwind CSS, RESTful Development, HTML, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Vue, MySQL, REST APIs, Laravel, PHP, Nuxt.js, Vuex, JavaScript

Lead Developer

2014 - 2020
Nope
  • Designed the complete architecture for the custom CMS that the company uses.
  • Developed the back end of the main CMS application with CodeIgniter, and the front end using Bootstrap and jQuery.
  • Created reusable packages that are utilized in multiple applications created by the company.
  • Covered crucial parts of the main application with automated tests.
  • Maintained the server stack (WHM, Apache, MySQL, Redis).
  • Integrated various third-party services and APIs (Facebook and Twitter APIs, for example).
  • Worked on the REST API for the main application used by other in-house applications.
  • Implemented a custom newsletter manager with a dynamic newsletter builder.
  • Developed the Vue.js single page application that can communicate, and update an unlimited number of CMS instances via the REST API.
Technologies: PHP 7, Laravel 5, Full-stack, Git, RESTful Development, HTML, NGINX, jQuery, Vue, MySQL, REST APIs, Laravel, PHP, Bootstrap, CodeIgniter

Web Developer

2016 - 2018
Playtrix Research, Inc.
  • Collaborated and helped develop the admin part of the online gaming, and betting platform.
  • Developed an optimized user hierarchy tree with six different user roles, and dozens of permissions.
  • Implemented an efficient communication algorithm between the admin section, and the betting platform.
  • Created a complete user activity log for the application.
  • Implemented the ability to purchase or withdraw betting credits in Bitcoins.
  • Added a webhooks feature to enable other applications to receive data from the platform.
  • Developed real-time reports with a dozen different filters.
Technologies: PHP 7, Laravel 5, Full-stack, Git, HTML, Bulma, jQuery, Vue, Laravel, PHP, Bootstrap

Web Developer

2012 - 2014
Balfour Beach Inn
  • Implemented multi-level user management into an existing hotel management application.
  • Developed and integrated new modules into a hotel management application.
  • Designed the architecture of an online POS system application.
  • Developed inventory tracking, and an auto re-ordering system for the POS application.
  • Implemented different kinds of PDF, and Excel reports.
  • Maintained the server stack based around Ubuntu, Apache, and MySQL.
Technologies: Full-stack, Git, HTML, jQuery, MySQL, PHP

Support Hub

https://support-hub.io
Support Hub is a customer support SaaS application built for small businesses, Envato authors, indie hackers, startups, and many other specialists. It was developed from scratch as a multi-tenant SaaS application using the Laravel PHP framework on the back end, and the Vue.js framework on the front end.

Vanguard: Advanced PHP Login and User Management

https://vanguardapp.io
Vanguard is a PHP application created from the ground up. It's written in the Laravel PHP framework, and allows website owners to quickly add, and enable authentication, authorization, and user management to their website. It comes with more than a hundred automated tests (functional and unit), that cover all vital parts of the application, and ensure its maintainability, and stability.

Advanced Security: PHP Register and Login System

https://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-security-php-registerlogin-system/5282621
Advanced Security is a user registration and login system written in pure PHP. It can be used with an existing look based on Bootstrap 4, or easily inserted into any existing PHP application, and integrated with the existing system.
2013 - 2015

Master's Degree in Computer Science: Security of Computer Systems

University of Niš - Nis, Serbia

2009 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

University of Niš - Nis, Serbia

MAY 2020 - MAY 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS

APRIL 2020 - APRIL 2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

JANUARY 2018 - PRESENT

Laravel Certified Developer

Laravel, LLC.

JULY 2015 - PRESENT

CS100.1x: Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark

edX

Libraries/APIs

Vue, Facebook API, X (formerly Twitter) API, jQuery, REST APIs, Node.js, React, Vuex, jQuery UI

Tools

Laravel Echo, Vue CLI, Git, PhpStorm, Sublime Text, Sequel Pro, Behat, NGINX, Apache, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

Languages

PHP 7, PHP, CSS, HTML, SQL, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), Java, Python, C, C++

Frameworks

Laravel 5, Tailwind CSS, Laravel, Bulma, CodeIgniter, Laravel Mix, Bootstrap, Nuxt.js, Angular, PHPUnit

Paradigms

RESTful Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Agile Software Development

Platforms

DigitalOcean, Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Linux

Storage

Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Memcached

Other

Software Architecture, Laravel Forge, System Administration, Full-stack, Amazon Route 53

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