Tomislav is available for hire

Tomislav Mesic

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Zagreb, Croatia

Toptal Member Since

January 8, 2016

Tomislav has been in the web development business all his life, filling a wide variety of project roles. He's done everything, from UI/UX design to graphic/web design, front-end/back-end development, and project management. He is truly an engineer of all trades, and his flexibility gives him a boost of creativity that serves him well with clients of all kinds.

Front-end User Experience (UX)User Interface (UI)CSS HTML5 Adobe Fireworks jQuery Project Management Bootstrap Scrum Sass Vue Visual Studio Code (VS Code)Squarespace SQL

Portfolio

University College Algebra

MacOS, CSS Preprocessors, WiX, Sketch, SCSS, MySQL, PHP...

Five Agency, Ltd.

MacOS, CSS Preprocessors, Figma, WiX, Functional Programming, Sketch, SCSS...

Trilinear Concept, Ltd.

MacOS, Figma, Sketch, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Scrum, Project Management...

Experience

CSS - 20 years HTML - 20 years JavaScript - 20 years jQuery - 15 years Bootstrap - 10 years SCSS - 6 years Sketch - 4 years Vue - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Functional Programming, Sketch, SCSS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Scrum, Vue, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Git, MacOS

The most amazing...

...visible thing I've done, and which I'm the most proud of, is a web UI framework for Napster, one of the world's top music streaming service companies.

Work Experience

Lecturer

2015 - PRESENT

University College Algebra

Lectured in eCommerce and content management systems.

Technologies: MacOS, CSS Preprocessors, WiX, Sketch, SCSS, MySQL, PHP, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Bootstrap, Project Management, jQuery, Squarespace, Magento, WordPress, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Front-end Web Architect

2013 - PRESENT

Five Agency, Ltd.

Defined and developed the web UI architecture for a wide range of projects.

Technologies: MacOS, CSS Preprocessors, Figma, WiX, Functional Programming, Sketch, SCSS, Shopify, MySQL, PHP, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Vue, Scrum, Handlebars, Bootstrap, TypeScript, Sass, jQuery, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Front-end, HTML5

Founder | Project Manager

2010 - PRESENT

Trilinear Concept, Ltd.

Consulted, managed projects, and developed websites.
Managed and developed programs and courses for a private university.
Led and consulted teams with a wide variety of roles included.

Technologies: MacOS, Figma, Sketch, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Scrum, Project Management, WordPress, Front-end, HTML5

Front-end Engineer

2013 - 2016

Rhapsody International, Inc.

Defined architecture and developed a front-end UI framework for several client products.

Technologies: MacOS, CSS Preprocessors, Figma, Functional Programming, Sketch, SCSS, MySQL, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Vue, Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Front-end, HTML5

GUI and Web Design Team Leader

2005 - 2013

Perpetuum Mobile

Managed a variety of web development team members.
Consulted and managed projects for a wide range of web solutions, strongly focused on front-end development, user experience, and accessibility.
Implemented web industry standards on a company level.

Technologies: MacOS, CSS Preprocessors, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, MySQL, PHP, .NET, SQL, Scrum, Project Management, Backbone.js, Bootstrap, SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Front-end, HTML5

Experience

Paywall Library

A simple paywall library that can be used on a client's news feed web to protect their content. The client may use it to provide exclusive content only for registered users.

This is one small project that demonstrates my way of thinking and code skills. All this is built on basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript without higher-level libraries.

Skills

Languages

HTML, CSS, SCSS, Sass, JavaScript, HTML5, TypeScript, PHP, SQL, C#, Java

Frameworks

Bootstrap, AngularJS, Ruby on Rails (RoR), .NET

Libraries/APIs

Handlebars, jQuery, Vue, Backbone.js, Underscore.js

Tools

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Sketch, Git, Adobe Illustrator, Figma, WiX

Paradigms

Scrum, Kanban, Functional Programming

Platforms

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), MacOS, WordPress, Shopify, Magento, SharePoint

Industry Expertise

Project Management

Other

CSS Preprocessors, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Front-end, Squarespace, Libraries

Storage

NoSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server

Education

2016 - 2018

Master's Degree in MBA

University College Algebra - Zagreb

2013 - 2015

Master's Degree in Applied Computer Engineering

University College for Applied Computer Engineering - Zagreb

2009 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Applied Computer Engineering

University College for Applied Computer Engineering - Zagreb

1996 - 2000

Bachelor's Degree in Organization and Information Science

Faculty of Organization and Information - Varazdin

Certifications

MAY 2012 - PRESENT

ITIL v3

EXIN

JANUARY 2011 - PRESENT

Adobe Certified Instructor

Adobe

JANUARY 2011 - PRESENT

Adobe Certified Expert

Adobe

MAY 2004 - PRESENT

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Corporation