Milan Aleksić

Last updated: 01/02/2020

Personal

Born on 21/12/1983, Smederevo (Serbia), living in Koekelberg (Belgium) since 2011. I have dual citizenship of Belgium and Serbia.

My website is aleksic.dev, email is milan@aleksic.dev and Twitter account is: milanaleksic. I also have a LinkedIn account if you’d like to connect with me.

Education

Dipl. Ing. Computer Science & Engineering (2008) from University of Belgrade (Serbia), Faculty of Electrical Engineering (ETF)

“NARIC – Vlaanderen” recognized diploma as M.Sc. [6]

Spoken languages

• Serbian (mother tongue)
• English (fluent)
• Dutch (C1 Effectiveness 1)

Keywords

• Java
• Go
• AWS
• Python
• PostgreSQL
• JavaScript

Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ SodaData (Belgium)

Place: Remote/Brussels, Belgium

Period: 2020-…

Projects:

• SodaData Data Quality system (backend engineer, Java)

Expert Software Engineer @ TomTom (Belgium)

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 POJO Java wrapper around GDAL OpenFileGDB.
  • 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 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 source ingestion service into core TomTom data layer
  • Kafka, PostgreSQL, Python, Spring Boot, Jenkins
• Lego: automated map features ingestion
  • Kubernetes on Azure Cloud, Python, Java, QGIS Python plugins

{Senior, Lead} Software Engineer @ Basware (Belgium)

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

Freelance Consultant

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

Software consultant @ Cronos (Belgium) 2011 - 2013

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)

Software Engineer II @ Gtech G2 Sports Betting

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

Software Developer @ Arius (Serbia) 2007 - 2009

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)

Intern software developer @ ESAProjekt

Place: Katowice, Poland Period: 2006

Projects:

• Usage of iOmniscient video recognition software for parking lots (C#)

Selected open source projects

• Personal Web site (Hugo, Netlify)
• gomakefiles (Makefile, Bash)
  • Reusable Makefile files which allow cross CI/CD Go compilation with many useful tools
• Notes For Life (Go; BADUC)
  • Dropbox-to-Dokuwiki sync
• Igor (Go Lambda, Vue.js, Google+, CloudFront, Cognito, DynamoDB)
  • “I am away” Flowdock bot, deployed via Semaphore.ci + CloudFormation
• Clici for Jenkins (Go)
  • Customizable Jenkins ncurses-like command line tool to follow Jenkins jobs
• HostChecker (Go)
  • Uses JSON DSL to verify expectations which a certain cluster of machines must fulfil
• Baobab (Java)
  • JSON-to-SWT mapping and annotation-driven MVC GUI framework
• MtsCheckAccount (Java, GNU RxTx)
  • GUI application for executing USSD via AT commands on USB 3G modems
  • Supporting modems ZTE MF622 and Huawei E1550 on Windows and Linux

Selected closed source personal projects

• Batler (automation Telegram bot)
  • Go, BADUC
• Advent Of Code 2018 (Go)
• BADUC (Bastion+DroneCI+Usher+Consul; also Chef, Gitea, SystemD)
  • CD system for software deployment in my home network via Go microservices
• VOZ (Go, PostgreSQL, ANTLR, Vue.js, Bootstrap 4; BADUC)
  • Feature-rich web page content extraction service
  • Integration with IFTTT, Wallabag v1 API compatibility, Search Query grammar
• NovinarnicaDownload (Scala, Akka, Spray.io, Google OAuth&GMail, Pushbullet)
  • Content crawler and CBR packager of magazines from www.novinarnica.net
• Movie Catalog System (Java, Baobab)
  • Catalog program for movie collections for Windows and Linux (SWT, Hibernate, H2)
  • TMDB integration (find-a-movie, posters, IMDB links)
  • Custom SWT components for UX, multi-master optimistic replication via vector clocks,
  • Versioned database alteration and restoration from backup
• Collaborative Utilities Concept (Java, Baobab)
  • Platform for integration of numerous (thirteen) tools (SWT, Smack, JMF…)
  • Including Jabber bot, scheduled SQL firing, ISO8583 message parser etc

Miscellaneous

Public talks

• (BeScala) Introducing a reactive Scala-Akka based system in a Java centric company
  • with Jeroen Verellen, 2015

Courses

• Coursera, Functional Programming in Scala (with Martin Odersky) (2012)
• Coursera, Algorithms 1 & Algorithms 2 (with Robert Sedgewick) (2013)
• Coursera, Pattern Oriented Software Architecture (with Douglas Schmidt) (2013)
• 10gen, MongoDB for Java Developers (M101J) (2013)
• Coursera, Principles of Reactive Programming (with Odersky, Meijer & Kuhn) (2014)

Awards

• Gtech Silver Building Excellence Award (2009) [3]
• Gtech Gold Building Excellence Award (2010) [4]

Certifications

• Oracle Certified Professional, Java Programmer 6 (OCPJP 6) (2011)
• Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE 5 Web Component Developer (OCPWCD 5) (2011)
• Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE 6 Java Persistence API Developer (OCEJPA 6) (2012)

Appendixes

[1] Recommendation by prof. Igor Tartalja (Belgrade ETF)

[2] Recommendation by Rafal Dunal (internship in Poland)

[3] GTECH Silver Building Excellence Award

[4] GTECH Gold Building Excellence Award

[5] Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and NT2 providers

[6] De Gelijkwaardigheid van Buitenlandse diploma’s en studiegetuigschriften met een Vlaamse academische graad