Mladen Brndušić
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Belgrade, Serbia
Toptal member since May 26, 2022
Mladen is a full-stack developer, CTO, and co-founder who has launched various web apps using Angular and other JavaScript frameworks. He has worked at multiple successful startups on a range of projects, including SaaS, streaming, news, and booking platforms. Mladen specializes in building resilient technical infrastructure, leading product and feature development, and migrating legacy codebases.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
PHP, Angular, Laravel, Zend Framework, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, TypeScript, Software Development, Refactoring, Back-end, Agile
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is an automation process for building Android and iOS apps based on inputs from a SaaS platform.
Work Experience
CTO
Tele Go
- Led the team that developed a white-label news portal with mobile applications and a content management system and the DevOps team that created a scalable infrastructure for every deployed portal.
- Managed the team in developing a SaaS system for fitness professionals while working on the system's back end that required creating many automation processes like Google Cloud projects, ingress deployment on Kubernetes clusters, and similar.
- Managed some legacy services that were on bare metal servers and organized their migration to cloud services.
- Grew a team from seven developers to 18 developers in less than a year.
CTO and Co-founder
Lurento
- Developed the API and management dashboard and took it from zero to production.
- Worked on understanding business needs and moving them to a software tool.
- Managed the compliance process of the product with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) needed for processing payment information through the product infrastructure.
NativeScript Developer
Helicon Technologies Ltd
- Migrated applications from NS6 to NS8 with complete dependencies.
- Fixed all bugs that came from the migration of the NativeScript framework.
- Adjusted build on iOS and Android to work with NativeScript 8.
- Created private npm packages for NS plugins based on legacy adjustments of vendor npm packages.
Software Engineer
Azbooky Software
- Contributed to product development, working alongside the product owners and a team of front-end developers.
- Led and mentored the front-end development team and managed their assignments.
- Organized, rewrote, and upgraded a limousine's dispatching dashboard from AngularJS to Angular.
- Developed some proof of concept (POC) dashboard apps for the limousine transportation industry.
Software Engineer
LimoLabs
- Developed a WordPress plugin to ride bookings and integrated it with APIs like Autocab, Groundlink, and iCabbi.
- Worked on the maintenance of more than 30 WordPress websites, including infrastructure and software maintenance.
- Introduced continuous integration and deployment for a WordPress plugin with security and availability as a top requirement.
Software Engineer
DLogic
- Worked on the development of a bus ticketing system. The software targeting bus operators fully supported them in digitizing their business.
- Set up application-level database replication load balancing.
- Organized and migrated the whole company's codebase with more than 20 repositories and 1+ million lines of code from Subversion (SVN) to GitHub without interrupting the development process.
- Took a team lead role in a small development team for the first time in career.
- Developed an Android application for ticket sales and integrated it with different Bluetooth printers for printing receipts.
- Built a Java application to sell tickets, refill RFID (radio frequency identification) cards, check credit status, and similar on a vending machine which was part of the entire bus ticketing system.
- Contributed to developing the website for online ticket selling and bus timetable for all bus operators on the system and the other operators.
Experience
Lean On Digital
https://leanondigital.com/Lurento
DocPhyzio - Metadoc
https://www.metadoc.ai/OpenLimo
Balkan mYUsic
LimoCart
http://www.limocart.com/YouTubersWar
EPUB3 Reading App
https://www.heliconbooks.com/?id=products&num=1KlikSport
AntenaM
https://www.antenam.net/D-Logic ERP
- warehouse management
- production management (one of company departments was hardware production), tracking production orders and converting hardware parts into final product with tracking the employee time spent while a product is produced
- employee time tracking integrated with company access control system
- accounting software integrated with ebanking
- employee payroll integrated with time tracking
Bus Logic
https://buslogic.net/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3p1LjoaEns
Red Voznje Net
https://redvoznje.net/Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Technical College of Applied Studies - Pozarevac, Serbia
Certifications
Toptal Node.js Accelerator Graduate
Toptal, LLC
Zend Certified PHP Engineer
Zend
Computer Programming
ITAcademy
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST API, Google Maps Development, jQuery, Node.js, SignalR, Stripe Development, Google Maps Development, Google Geocoding API, Stripe Development, WebRTC, FFmpeg, RxJS, TensorFlow, Google Maps Development, Vue.js
Tools
Git, AWS, RabbitMQ, Geocoder, Mocha, Nginx, Apache, GitLab CI/CD, Braintree SDK, NPM, Xcode, Android, Gradle, Zapier Development, Wowza, AWS ELB, Sencha UI
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, PHP, PHP, HTML5, PHP 8, CSS, Python, Delphi, PHP, F#, GraphQL, XML, C#, TypeScript 3, Swift, Embedded C, Java
Frameworks
Angular, Laravel, Zend Framework, AngularJS, ExtJS, Angular Material, Electron.js, Jasmine, Jest, NativeScript, .NET, Android SDK, Yii, NestJS
Paradigms
Design Patterns, REST, Back-end Developers, Refactoring, Requirements Analysis, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Unit Testing, Agile Development, DevOps, Microservices Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Development, Management
Platforms
LAMP, Google Cloud SDK, Amazon EC2, Firebase, AWS, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, WordPress Development, Android, iOS, Shopify, Cloud Engineering, Apache, CentOS
Storage
MySQL, Database, Relational Databases, MariaDB, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Development, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Database Replication
Industry Expertise
Virtual Coaching, Accounting
Other
Software Development, Software Deployment, APIs, API Integration, Full-stack, Full-stack, Architecture, HTTP, Back-end Developers, Software Architecture, Design Consulting, Software Consulting, Interim CTOs, Source Code Review, Code Review, Team Management, Back-end Developers, Web Development, Software Design, System Architecture Design, Project Planning, GitFlow, Planning, Data Structures, AWS RDS, Amazon Route 53, Serverless, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), PWA, RPC, Queue Management, SSO Engineering, System Security, CI/CD Pipelines, Technical Hiring, Task Analysis, Interviewing, Stripe Subscriptions, Message Queues, Business Requirements, Content Management Systems (CMS), IT Projects, IT Project Management, Technical Design, Leadership, Human Resources, Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Technical Design, Startup Development, Scalability, Product Development, Estimations, SaaS, Networking, System Security, IT Automation, Computer Vision, WebSockets, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, OpenTelemetry, Private NPM Modules, Debugging, Laminas, Load Balancers, Media Encoding, Encoders, SMS, Payment APIs, Mobile Web, Cloudflare, Tracking, PHP, Performance, GPS, Mobile GPS, Tutoring, Team Mentoring, Mentorship, Hardware, Hardware Drivers, Mobile App Design, Bluetooth, Near-field Communication (NFC)
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