Developer Project

Despot Jakimovski

acckrh@r.postjobfree.com

+*89 (0) 70 739 395

Bul. Partizanski Odredi br. 5/8, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia

PERSONAL STATEMENT

A dedicated Senior Java Developer with a 6+ years back-end development experience working on b2c solutions

like retail e-commerce web sites, and b2b solutions such as real estate, financial, marketing and social networks

API software. I am interested in the architectural and algorithmic side of the project. I have some front-end and

mobile development experience as well.

KEY SKILLS

Technical Skills

§ Great knowledge of Java (plus Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer – score 95%)

§ Advanced Spring experience

§ Good knowledge of SQL, databases Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, and ORM framework Hibernate

§ Web Services: RESTfull (broad experience), SOAP/WSDL

§ Project (dependency) management and build tool: Maven

§ Map Reduce technologies: GigaSpaces (basic training, Netherlands) and MongoDB (master thesis)

§ Limited frontend experience: javascript, JQuery, JSP/JSTL (extensive), Freemarker

§ Mobile development: Android, iPhone, J2ME

§ Some scripting experience: batch, shell, groovy

§ IDEs: Eclipse and Intellij Idea

§ Source code management / Revision control systems: Git, SVN, CVS

§ Continuous Integration: Jenkins/Hudson, Sonar

§ Enterprise search platform: Solr (contributed)

§ UML: Visio, yEd, Enterprise Architect

§ Attended conferences: Jazoon07, Java Day

§ Participated in technical forums

Personal Skills

§ passionate, hardworking and dedicated, open-minded but opinionated

§ invested in team communication (teamwork background: folklore dancer and technical NGO volunteer)

§ leadership abilities (acquired mainly from my National Secretary position in IAESTE)

EMPLOYMENT

Java Senior Developer

Tricode Professional Services (ICT services provider since 1999 – java based web applications. SCRUM practice)

Skopje, Macedonia

January 2011 - present

Key achievements:

Sales process application for UPC Broadband (offers broadband internet, digital television and digital

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VoIP telephony – project in multiple countries Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, Czech, Hungary). ( Spring,

Maven, GigaSpaces, Hibernate, git, groovy, Jenkins, MySQL, Oracle) Duration: 17 months.

Mister Chameleon marketing solution which offers a great span of services such as data validation,

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marketing management possibilities (user recognition, content management, and more). ( Spring, Maven,

GigaSpaces, Hibernate, Hudson, Sonar, Git, Gerrit, MySQL, Mule). Duration: 14 months.

Solr/Lucene based demo application for a online retail company (making search for products easier

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and faster). (Spring, Solr/Lucene, JQuery). Duration: 1 month. (Solr contribution - custom filter).

Social Network API application (Maven, Spring, GigaSpaces, Hibernate, Hudson, Sonar, Svn,

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Postgres). Duration: 11 months.

Freelancing for an e-commerce java web application (for a New York based Startup in Skopje, Macedonia on

April 2010 – December 2010) using Spring 2.5.6, Hibernate and Tiles

Mobile Application Developer (for ITGMA in Skopje, Macedonia on December 2009 – February 2010),

developing iPhone and Android mobile games

Mobile Application Developer (for Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje,

Macedonia on May 2009 – November 2010), created mobile application (J2ME) for organizing and analysing

symptoms.

Java Backend / Crawler Developer

Analytic Company GmbH (Automotive Market Research and Forecasting Company)

Lüneburg, Germany

August 2008 – May 2009

Key Achievements:

Developed and maintained crawlers (parts of application for crawling the www that collect automotive

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industry data). (HTML, java, multithreading)

Maintained and developed parts of B2B web application that interprets data, presents current and

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forecasts future automobile market prices based on Mathematical Regression Models. ( Struts 1)

Mobile Application Developer (for Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies in Skopje,

Macedonia on March 2008 – July 2009), created midlet application for light inspection of a database (Java, J2ME,

Servlet, Tomcat, Oracle, Eclipse).

Java Junior Developer

Netcetera (Zurich based software agile development company which delivers quality software since 1996 )

Skopje, Macedonia

February 2007 – February 2008

Key Achievements:

“Amlaki” Project - Backend Developer - created screens, actions and renderers, altered database

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schema and performed CRUD operations for a web application with over 100 screens and wizards

for managing real estate companies, including financial and customer management software. (Struts,

Hibernate, Tomcat, Oracle, Eclipse, Java, JSP, XML).

“Floorplan” Project- SWING Developer - developed part of the GUI, worked on image scaling and

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other Servlet development for a SWING/ JFC SWING application that allows a user to create, inspect

and make a reservation on an available area/floor/building (Swing, Hibernate, Tomcat, Oracle, Eclipse,

XML).

Natural Language Generation (NLG) Developer (for University “Otto-von-Guericke”, Institute of Informatics

Magdeburg, Germany on June 2003 – August 2003), Introduced/described some language sets for the auction area

in the KOMET/Penman system.

EDUCATION

Oracle

Skopje, Macedonia (1st of August, 2012)

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer, 95%

GigaSpaces

Veenendaal, Netherlands / Skopje, Macedonia (February / June 2011)

GigaSpaces basic / advanced training

Coursera (Organized by Sebastian Thrun, Ph.D and Peter Norvig, Ph.D)

Online (2011)

Artificial Intelligence class, 92.4%

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE), University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" (UKIM)

Skopje, Macedonia (2001 - 2009)

Master of Computer Science, Concentration: Software Engineering, ongoing (master thesis left)

The knowledge I got from subjects like “Testing and Usability of Software”, “Design Patterns”, “Software

Architectures” (Ian Sommerville - Software Engineering), complimented with the books and blogs I read on

technical topics give me broad understanding of the technologies I am using.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEIT), Uni. "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" (UKIM)

Skopje, Macedonia (2009 - present)

Bachelor of Computer Science, Concentration: Computer Techniques, Informatics and Automation, 8.21

Although the beginnings of my computer knowledge started with my Commodore 64, I got my programming

basics and more in this faculty.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

I like swimming and hiking. Participated in 30 international festivals with an amateur folk dancing group.

Languages: Native in Macedonian; Fluent in English; Fair in German and Spanish.

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