Senior Software Engineer Full Stack Development

Danilo Anovic

Senior Software Engineer Full Stack AI-Enabled Development Backend Distributed Platforms Systems Kubernetes & AWS Belgrade, Serbia — ***********@*****.*** — linkedin.com/in/danilo-anovic Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing cloud-native infrastructure, resilient backend services, and enterprise applications across fintech, SaaS, gaming, and analytics sectors. Expertise spans Kubernetes orchestration, streaming architectures, microservices, and fault-tolerant platform engineering using TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React, AWS, and PostgreSQL. Delivered modernization initiatives supporting 1.5M+ daily analytics events, transitioned 20+ services into Kubernetes environments, reduced API latency by about 20ms, and maintained 99.8% service availability across mission-critical environments.

Skills

Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, SQL, Bash Frontend: React.js, Next.js, Redux Toolkit, Angular, Vue.js, HTML5, CSS3, Tailwind CSS, Zus- tand, TanStack Query

Backend: Node.js, Express.js, NestJS, Spring Boot, Django, FastAPI, ASP.NET Core Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, OpenSearch Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, REST APIs, GraphQL, Serverless Computing, Scalable Infrastructure, Distributed Systems

Tools: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Datadog, Grafana, Git, Linux, Jira, Confluence, Nginx AI / Modern Engineering: OpenAI API, LangChain, RAG Pipelines, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering, AI- Enabled Applications

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Databricks Jan 2023 – Present Remote

• Directed Kubernetes infrastructure programs supporting enterprise analytics platforms processing 1.5M+ daily events across 3 AWS regions.

• Removed backend bottlenecks by redesigning PostgreSQL execution workflows, lowering API latency by about 20ms across heavily utilized services.

• Led migration initiatives spanning 20+ microservices into Kubernetes environments, accelerating release velocity by about 25% while improving rollout stability.

• Engineered Kafka streaming architectures ingesting about 650GB of analytics data daily while sustaining 99.8% service availability.

• Unified observability workflows across 50+ production containers, shortening incident investigation time by about 20 minutes for engineering operations teams.

• Redesigned cloud utilization strategies that reduced compute overhead by about 15% during sustained traffic spikes and resource-intensive workloads.

• Shaped resiliency planning, backend governance standards, and scalability roadmaps supporting 300+ enterprise organi- zations worldwide.

Senior Software Engineer — Toptal May 2020 – Dec 2022 Remote

• Delivered fintech, healthcare, SaaS, and e-commerce applications serving 80K+ active users across globally hosted cloud ecosystems.

• Revitalized React and Next.js platforms, boosting Lighthouse performance scores by about 20 points while maintaining page load times under 2.5 seconds.

• Developed Node.js and Python backend services capable of handling 300+ financial transactions per minute with resilient asynchronous processing.

• Streamlined CI/CD operations using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Helm, decreasing deployment turnaround time by about 20 minutes across engineering organizations.

• Expanded platform scalability through Redis-backed caching layers, GraphQL integration, and AWS modernization efforts supporting rapidly growing products.

• Eliminated rendering slowdowns and database contention issues that stabilized application behavior during traffic surges exceeding about 2x standard load.

Lead Software Engineer — Levi9 Technology Services Apr 2016 – Apr 2020 Novi Sad, Serbia

• Spearheaded modernization programs for fintech and SaaS ecosystems handling 750K monthly API interactions.

• Rebuilt legacy monolithic platforms into Docker-powered microservices architectures, lowering production incidents by about 18% and accelerating engineering throughput by about 24%.

• Established Azure DevOps delivery frameworks enabling continuous deployment practices across 4+ engineering squads.

• Reengineered database access layers and backend processing pipelines, decreasing response latency by about 23ms across mission-critical services.

• Delivered enterprise React and Angular applications supporting 2.5K concurrent users with stronger maintainability and rendering efficiency.

• Instituted automated validation frameworks and release safeguards that lowered regression defects by about 21%.

• Guided 4+ engineers in cloud-native engineering, scalable backend architecture, and modern application development practices.

Software Engineer — Nordeus Jul 2013 – Mar 2016

Belgrade, Serbia

• Improved application performance by about 14% through frontend rendering enhancements, backend execution tuning, and streamlined service coordination.

• Created reusable UI libraries and internal engineering tooling adopted across 3+ product development teams, saving approximately 20 minutes per feature.

• Implemented RESTful gameplay services enabling real-time synchronization and high-concurrency player activity.

• Collaborated with product, QA, and design stakeholders, delivering stable feature launches in rapidly evolving gaming environments, averaging 4+ feature launches per quarter. Education

University of Novi Sad - Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad Jul 2013 B.Eng in Software Engineering and Information Technologies

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