Zeljko Vrbaski

Experience

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  Schneider Electric DMS NS

  Sept 2010 - Mar 2012

  - CIM based integration,designing and developing mapping algorithms and business process- testing- GIS CIM-based integrations Analyzing, parsing and handling CIM-defined power system models using C#.

  • Junior Software Developer

    Mar 2011 - Mar 2012

  • Intern

    Sept 2010 - Mar 2011
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  Schneider Electric DMS Novi Sad

  Mar 2012 - Feb 2015

  Senior Software engineer - Integration Lead and Subject-matter Expert

  - CIM based integration,designing and developing mapping algorithms and business process - on-site work (Canada - Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Alberta; India - Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir) - work with clients - testing - subject mater expert for integration design - online and offline integrations - Outage management system integrations - GIS CIM-based integrations - ActiveMQ integrations - Web service based integrations - wirting detailed design documents for integrations (including UML diagrams) - client handling and communications - software testing and test designing - tender documentation Show less

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  TMNS Empiry

  Feb 2015 - Jun 2016

  Working as a software engineer working on AORTA software. Work on backend part of the web application. Engineering and developing backend services for work and communication with:- GIT repositories - Web Logic Server and services hosted on WLS- between python tornado services- jinja2 templates- redis cache and redis queue- modeling and working with models in rethinkDB, mysql and oracle databases- designing processes for user management, authentication and registration (with OAuth)- communication with SOAP and REST remote services Show less

  • Software Engineer

    Mar 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Consultant

    Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
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  Seven Bridges

  Jul 2016 - Dec 2022

  Leading a QA division with focus on QA Infrastructure team. Preparing and refining technical backlog, planning sprint work and coaching team in agile practices. Working as an Engineering Manager/Team Lead and Technical Lead with main focus on Python and surrounding technologies. As engineering manager actively leading a team, participating in performance management processes, knowledge sharing, mentoring, coaching and providing career development support to reports. As a technical lead - joining efforts for solving client and product requests, mainly on an architectural level. Working as a member of core team. My responsibilities are focused on prototyping, development and maintenance of micro services and vast range of utility libraries. Mostly focused on python technologies and postgresql database with just a splash of GoLang.

  • Director Of Engineering

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Engineering Team Lead

    Dec 2018 - Dec 2022

  • Software Engineer

    Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
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  Velsera

  Jan 2023 - Nov 2024

  Director of Engineering

  Directly managing two diverse teams (a Kanban and a Scrum team) with focus on people management, process improvements, team cooperation and delivery. Playing a role of an agile coach/scrum master to the teams, tracking and preparing sprint metrics, organizing demos and reviews, working on quarterly planning for technical backlog and ensuring seamless cooperation between teams while tightly cooperating with product managers.Handling learning and development for team members, performance management and/or improvement plans and knowledge sharing to ensure growth within teams. Work on organizing and improving communities of practice within the company as well as leading personal development for individual contributors.Supporting organization of Communities of Practice, empowering, coaching and supporting technical leads from the organizational side.Organizing and leading internship program within company, as well as mentoring interns and coaching mentors.Working closely with talent acquisition in defining hiring processes and directly during hiring as hiring manager and/or interviewer. Show less