Zoran has 13 years of experience with .NET, mostly ASP.NET with a smattering of some smaller apps—even one for Windows CE. But a majority of his work has been focused on business apps. Zoran's project highlights include an OCR for PDFs and camera images for home loan comparison, OpenBanking PSD2 API implementations, resource management tools, software for major phase-4 clinical trials, and a custom shipping app.
Built a solution for a shipping company to redesign and modernize their existing solution for managing their ships and their commercial history.
Increased performance of their queries using EF Core.
Led the whole team—a designer and two developers; acted as a developer but also a business analyst and consultant as I was often going to the clients' premises on consultations and discussions about the project.
Created the finance part of the app, responsible for all of the budgeting.
Reduced the complexity of code and business requirements by segmenting them to smaller, modular pieces.
RESTCSSHTMLjQueryEntity Framework Core
ASP.NET Core 3
T-SQL (Transact-SQL)
Toptal Client
Solution Architect
2018 - Present (7 years)
Remote
Created a very complex SQL stored procedure that reduced the time to merge and connect multiple products.
Created a desktop app to upload new products, prices, and stock info.
Built a desktop app (WPF) that connects to Spire API and updates the DB accordingly.
Designed and built a Umbraco website with both webshop and eCommerce.
Developed an application for loan officers to easily upload loan estimates and OCR technology to save the info on a LE to the database. The client part of the application consisted of easy to use interface to compare different LEs and choose the one that the client liked the most. The admin part of the interface was for managing both clients and loan officers.
Led the whole development team, including front end, back end, and designers. Communicated directly with the project manager and was responsible for all architecture plus writing the most complex parts of the code.
Delivered a fully functional OCR solution, which would map the fields on the LE to our database model.
Led a team of four developers and a designer, who I helped choose, as I was a part of the team that did the job interviews, together with the CTO and a CEO of Croatian branch where they worked with me.
Moved from old ASP.NET Web Forms into more modern ASP.NET MVC code.
Created the architecture and most complex coding tasks, solved problems inside the team, and found what motivated each team member the most, assigning tasks accordingly.
Acted in part as scrum master, in constant contact with product owners.
RESTCSSHTMLjQueryEntity Framework Core
ASP.NET Core 3
T-SQL (Transact-SQL)
EGS
Full-stack Developer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Remote
Supported dynamic forms.
Created a badge preview screen (Angular directive and back-end code).
Created complete print logic for printing badges.
Improved UI colors for color blind people (many plugins with alerts have them done very wrong).