Milan Aleksić

Place: Remote/Brussels, Belgium

Period: 2020-…

Projects:

• soda.io Cloud Backend (founding) engineer
  • Programming languages: (mostly) Java, Python and cloud development on AWS using Terraform
  • Tasked with backend feature development, guidance and documentation. One of the first engineers and therefore I witnessed most of pivoting, market adaptations, surprising platform usage patterns, product evolution, became the company MySQL perf guy…
  • Deep observability setup via DataDog, incident management and other operational concerns of the Soda Cloud (handed over to dedicated personnel as we grew); I made various deep analysis tools in Go like timeline diagrams for deadlock analysis, log processing pipelines
• Created in Python internal dopy tool for various devops/security tasks on top of Okta and boto3
• Broad exposure to data sources while helping bootstrap Soda SQL: PostgreSQL, Redshift, Athena, Spark

Place: Ghent, Belgium

Period: 2017-2020

CCE Team

Feature development and maintenance of various core systems and applications in MPU Core Coverage Creation & Extension team

Projects:

• MLF library: authored code-generated Java wrapper around GDAL OpenFileGDB (later extended to PostGIS and GeoPackage).
  • Custom ANTLR grammar for extended validation, Python/Markdown doc generator
• Sinatra: Led migration of a complex process into AWS for GIS source data digestion
  • PostgreSQL RDS, Spring Boot 2, SQS, ECS, Terraform, Vue.js
• Pupin: created machine learning cloud service for data classification (plural junctions problem)
  • Training: PostGIS, Python, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost, (Geo)Pandas, Jupyter
  • Online+Batch prediction: Terraform / AWS ECS, Spring Boot 2, XGBoost, REST
• Dumbo: migration of internal heavily used batch processing tool into the cloud
  • AWS Batch, ECS, PostgreSQL, S3, X-Ray; Spring Boot 2, Terraform, Python, Jenkins
• Excelsior: process orchestration service
  • States Language implementation (spec only), ECS+Lambda, Java 11, Python 3

Hermes team

Feature development on new long-term systems and applications in Hermes team

Projects:

• Nozem: always-up-to-date OpenStreetMap ingestion service into core TomTom data layer
  • Kafka, PostgreSQL, Python, Spring Boot, Jenkins
• Lego: automated OpenStreetMap features ingestion
  • Kubernetes on Azure Cloud, Python, Java, QGIS Python plugins

Place: Aalst, Belgium

Period: 2013-2017

Projects:

• Basware Network Portal: Full-stack development role on online and internal services
  • Play2, Scala, Java8, MongoDB, Spring, Chef, Go
  • Rewritten core validation business rules implementation (Java)
• Basware e-Archiving: DevOps lead-in-charge and one of lead developers
  • CloudFormation, Jenkins, Bash, AWS CLI
  • Java Lambda functions, API GW, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, Splunk
• Norsu: Introduced cross-systems end-to-end testing
  • Groovy, Cucumber, Gradle
• Business Metrics dashboards
  • Akka (Scala) and Dashing.io (Ruby)
• Migration of legacy Resin applications to Tomcat cluster
  • Oracle, JSP, RMI, Ant, Tomcat, Apache2
• HAL9000: Flowdock bot (CI/CD automation helper for 100+ developers)
  • Go

Place: Remote (part-time job)

Period: 2014

Projects:

• Support migration of einstants Flash to HTML5 (Script#, Grunt, RequireJS, Karma)
• Various tasks related to new Switzerland Lottery’s online game LotoExpress

Place: Brussels, Belgium

Period: 2011-2013

Projects:

• Interwoven TeamSite consultancy in BNP Paribas Investment Partners
  • Full-stack maintenance of global portal www.bnpparibas-ip.com (Java, Oracle, XSLT, Perl, JavaScript)
  • Server Synchronization: tool for content synchronization analysis over Solaris systems (Java)

Place: Belgrade, Serbia

Period: 2009 - 2011

Projects:

• WARP Framework
  • Core engineer (front-end and backend in Script#/C#)
• Lottery Players’ portals projects
  • Chilean National Lottery (www.polla.cl)
  • Belgian National Lottery (www.e-lotto.be)
• DistributeWarpComponent
  • Microsoft Visual Studio developer tool for immediate development cycle feedback (C# / Groovy for backend server)
• CipDroid: Android application for internal issue management system

Place: Belgrade, Serbia

Period: 2007-2009

Projects:

• TMS (Terminal Management System)
  • Evolution of payment transaction system for POS terminals (Java, WebSphere, Oracle)
• SMS dispatcher
  • Dispatching of bank notifications via SMSC / GSM modem (JMS, Spring, WebSphere 6, Oracle)
• MRS (Mobile Recharge System)
  • Mobile top-ups Java server transaction application (Java, JPOS Q2, WebSphere)
  • Offline vouchers project for Nigerian market (Java, C)

Place: Katowice, Poland

Period: 2006

Projects:

• Case study of iOmniscient video recognition software application for parking lots (C#)