Nenad Samardzic

Experience

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  SSoFT, IT Solutions

  Mar 2003 - Nov 2004

  Developer/Designer/Team leader

  • Developed financial subsystem of proprietary ERP system that was implemented in several manufacturing and service companies in Serbia.• Assisted in development of inventory subsystem of the same ERP system.• Designed additional functionalities and interfaces to enable financial module as stand-alone and to provide its connectivity with diverse (third party) application systems.• Retained and served clients through upgrade and maintenance of ERP financial module.• Created training materials and delivered training sessions related to financial subsystem for users in several client companies. Tools: MS Visual Basic 6,MS Visual Basic.NET, MS SQL 2000 Show less

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  Deloitte

  Dec 2004 - Jan 2010

  Senior Consultant, Enterprise Risk Services

  • Performed numerous risk based IT audits using Deloitte’s audit methodology GCCs and Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and risk management engagements (control assurance, data quality and integrity, process and systems integrity and project quality assurance).• Designed and developed stand-alone audit support application designed for data interrogation and comprehensive data analysis tailor-made to the requirements of business audit division. Tools: Visual FoxPro, dBase• Provided audit support through comprehensive data interrogation, transformation and analysis and production of ad-hoc reports. Tools: MS Excel, ACL• Performed buyer-side IT due diligence engagements for banks in Serbia. Show less

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  Vojvodjanska banka

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2012

  Internal IT auditor

  • First internal IT auditor in the bank, responsible for the introduction of COBIT based IT audits.• Ensured efficient, regular and quality performance of the Internal Audit function.• Performed assessments of the exposure of the bank to existing and potential/emerging risk.• Recommended corrective actions for the elimination of observed irregularities and shortcomings and for improvement of implemented procedures and systems.• Proposed measures to reinforce processes and mechanisms to reduce potential risks for the bank. Show less

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  Deloitte

  Aug 2012 - Sept 2012

  Senior Consultant, Enterprise Risk Services

  • ITIL / COBIT consultant for a major software corporation

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  HuffPost

  Oct 2013 - Jul 2014

  Full Stack Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • Design, development and maintenance of The HuffPost CMS - supporting client facing functionalities and editorial tools.• Development and maintenance of mobile content APIs driving all native mobile applications. Tools: PHP, MySQL, jQuery, HTML, CSS/Sass, Perl, AJAX• Kanban Tools: JIRA

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  Hackerati

  Oct 2013 - Sept 2017

  Software Engineering Consultant

  • A full time member of clients’ integrated teams or an external consultant with numerous clients across various industries.• Worked on several internal Hackerati projects. Tools: Scala (Play, akka), SQLite, AWS services (S3, Mechanical Turk), Vagrant, Chef

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  MISTER

  Jul 2014 - Sept 2014

  Full Stack Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • Design and development of a high fashion e-commerce website for Hood By Air. Tools: PHP/Magento, HTML, CSS, AngularJS.• Scrum Tools: JIRA

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  Freeplay Music

  Nov 2014 - Mar 2015

  Full Stack Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • Performed an assessment of the existing environment and proposed potential paths forward including time/cost/risks estimates.• Built the CMS with the advanced business functionalities.• API and frontend improvements Tools: Magento (PHP, XML, HTML), AngularJS, HTML, CSS, MySQL• Scrum Tools: JIRA

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  Kepler Group

  Mar 2015 - Dec 2015

  Backend/Data/System Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • Development and maintenance of multiple data ingestion/processing/reporting systems and migrating them from local data cluster to AWS Tools: Python, MySQL, shell• Development and maintenance of data ingestion system utilizing AWS (EC2, EMR, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, Glacier, CloudWatch, SNS) and integration with PagerDuty Tools: Python, Hadoop, Hive• System and user administration/management Tools: Linux, shell, Python• Scrum Tools: JIRA, Asana

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  Proclivity Systems

  Jan 2016 - Nov 2016

  Full Stack/Data Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • TDD and maintenance of a real time pharma ad marketplace system. Tools: Java 8/Dropwizard; Hamcrest, Mockito; PostgreSQL; Docker• Development and maintenance of buy/sell sides of the FE application. Tools: React, Redux, Babel, Webpack, Less; Karma, Mocha, Chai• Development, maintenance and monitoring of ETL processes• Supporting infrastructure maintenance Tools: OpsWise, shell, Python, Hive, Hadoop• Scrum Tools: Pivotal Tracker

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  DNAinfo

  Nov 2016 - Mar 2017

  Full Stack Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • TDD/BDD of the Neighborhood Partner Platform Tools: Python3/Django, Behave, Javascript, MySQL; Segment.io• Scrum Tools: Clubhouse

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  Proclivity Systems

  Apr 2017 - May 2017

  Backend/Data Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • Designed and built specialized ‘Market demand’ reportsTools: OpsWise, shell, Python, Hive, Hadoop

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  Codejockey

  May 2017 - Jun 2017

  Backend Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  • Development of proprietary issue tracking systemTools: Python/Django, PostgreSQL

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  Noodle Partners

  Jul 2017 - Jul 2017

  Full Stack Engineering Consultant (through Hackerati)

  Data model design, vendor API integration, processing and data visualizationTools: Python/Django, D3, MySQL

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  Zipari

  Oct 2017 - Jul 2021

  • Leading teams of backend engineers in Sales Studio (Group and Consumer side Portals).• Design and development of Group products and integration with Zipari's two largest healthcare insurance clients.• Liaison between product, architecture, engineering, PMO and QA teams.• Managing offshore technical teams.• Remaining hands-on in the development process - main contributor to Zipari's fork on Venmo’s Business Rules engine repository and Zipari’s internal Business Services. Tools: Python/Django, PostgreSQL• Scrum Tools: JIRA Show less

  • Technical Manager

    Feb 2020 - Jul 2021

  • Senior Backend Engineer

    Jul 2019 - Feb 2020

  • Backend Engineer

    Oct 2017 - Jun 2019