Technical Lead Associate, Senior Software Engineer @HTEC Group

mailto: [email protected]

Belgrade, Serbia

ws: @lazar.sh

gh: @lkaric

id: @lazar karic

Intro (Kind off 😅)

Hello 👋🏻 I’m Lazar, Software Engineer based in Belgrade, Serbia 🇷🇸. Not constrained by technologies but my general work revolves around Typescript (Node.js, React.js), System Design and Architecture, Availability & Performance.

I have a great deal of interest in education, open-source, and improving myself and the people around me. Profound advocate of no BS and total transparency.

Experience


Oct 2023 - Present

Nov 2022 - Oct 2023

Technical Lead Associate, Senior Software Engineer @ HTEC Group

Senior Software Engineer @ HTEC Group

Belgrade, Serbia

@ Gluware, US

Gluware is an intelligent network automation platform, consisting of robotic automatization of the networking processes through the graphical workflows, network introspection and topological overview of the network. As a Technical Lead, I hold the technical authority over the frontend project, working closely with the frontend team I plan and raise potentially dangerous technical debts, provide technical guidance and work the features together with the team.

Technologies: React.js, ELK.js, Reactflow, YFiles


Jun 2022 - May 2023

Senior Software Engineer @ Valcon SEE

Belgrade, Serbia

Beside the standard project engagements, I had a part in the R&D division of the company as well as working on the team which did audit and evaluation of the potential clients and project.

@ Storyreq, NL

Storyteq is a comprehensive creative automation and content marketing platform providing clients with a broad set of features. My role as a Senior Software Engineer at Stroryteq was to, as a part of the platform backend team, provide the needed technical support for every branch of the project, as well as to develop and architect the core constructs of the project used throught the verticals.

During the tenure, I also helped redesign the existing video processing pipeline and transition from MQTT to the GCP PS.

Technologies: PHP (Laravel), GCP, Node.js (Nest.js, Express.js)

@ ***Eventmender, NL***

Eventmender streamlines the process of finding and quoting a perfect event vendor. My role as a Software Architect was to do a due diligence of the existing platform and propose a new and improved solution. I decided to re-design the decision making algorithm, include ElasticSearch, switch to more opinionated framework and utilize a third party security provider.

Technologies: Node.js (Nest.js), AWS, ElasticSearch

Nov 2020 - Jun 2022

Software Engineer @ Valcon SEE

Belgrade, Serbia

@ ***Even Financial, US (Acquired by MoneyLion)***

Engine, previously known as Even Financial is a B2B solution which helps provide financial product offers and monetize the interactions. My role as a Software Engineer included maintaining both Backend (Nest.js) (BFF) and Frontend (Next.js). I had ownership over the in-memory caching layer (Loki.js), it’s hydration, read-through failsafes, and permission graph generation on the backend, and dynamic contracts and DX on the frontend. Also I led the initiative to migrate from Lerna to NX and to increase the observability. Helped migrate from AntD to Blueprint.js. Was a designated person for production and revenue affecting incidents debugging.

Dabbled in Scala and Akka, making changes that we needed to seamlessly develop the BFF without introducing potential volatile changes for the system.

Technologies: Node.js (Nest.js), Next.js, Scala (Play, Akka)

@ ***Equilibrium, NL***

Equilibrium is an E2E logistics platform for shipment organization and tracking. My role as a Software Engineer was focused primarily on the backend where we developed a custom DI framework around Express.js following the DDD pattern and integrating third party location tracking providers.

Technologies: Node.js (Custom framework on top of Express.js), GQL, React.js


Dec 2020 - Feb 2022

Software Engineer @ Codepolyglots

Belgrade, Serbia

@ ***Yellow Advisor, CA***

Yellow Advisor is an review aggregation platform which provides abilities for brands to claim their respective models, advertise them and have interaction with their clientele. My role as a Software Engineer was mainly related, but not limited, to implementation of ElasticSearch, laying out the frontend architecture and later on coordinating the data scraping.

Technologies: React.js, Node.js (Nest.js), ElasticSearch


Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

Software Engineer @ Holycode

Belgrade, Serbia

@ ***Linkgraph.io, USA***

Linkgraph is an SEO management platform providing various services all of which are coming through the in-house platform. My role as a Software Engineer Lead was to coordinate incoming feature requests, remove technical debt and deliver complex features, this included Grammarly like content editor with comprehensive real time SEO statistics and charting.

Technologies: React.js, MobX (MST), Draft.js