Nikola is a Senior RoR Developer with 12+ years of experience in software development, working remotely on client projects worldwide. He enjoys working with startups and is a pioneer of new ideas, practices, and techniques, with a current focus on Blockchain. Nikola’s experience as an entrepreneur and an engineer in the programming world makes him an excellent communicator and a fervent advocate of best practices.
Developed front-end and back-end technologies and oversaw deployment.
Created and developed innovative ideas using the most advanced technologies in the industry and encouraged collaboration with like-minded entrepreneurs.
Set up payment processing with 2checkout using Cloudinary for cloud image storage and integrated DigitalOcean for the server hosting platform.
Innovation Center, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Software Developer
2012 - 2016 (4 years)
Belgrade, Serbia
Worked on two projects for a thermal coal power station in Serbia (TE Kostolac) and led the entire lifecycle of the development process.
Wrote procedures in Oracle PL/SQL for the first application to calculate the average fuel consumption for excavators, bulldozers, and other vehicles on the open pit.
Led the entire SDLC (e.g., communication with end customers, building functionalities, testing, deployment).
Created a payroll algorithm with more than 10,000 lines of bug-free code to calculate payrolls for thousands of healthcare employees in Serbia.
Worked on the payroll algorithm within a project called Moneo (part of the Heliant system).
Excelled as a key contributor to the core part of the Heliant system, an electronic health record system (EHRS) monitoring doctors' performance and keeping patient records.
