Emir Kurtovic

Emir Kurtovic from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina • Contact:-- They say the term is DevOps, bas when I started it was simply programer. After 20+ years of experience I enjoy finding the potential in customer ideas and improving them as needed during the development process until no user manuals are no longer needed. HISTORY EXPERIENCE TOPTAL PHP, 13 years Software architect JavaScript, 7 years RAPTOR Agency Yii, 3 years PHP, Android Twitter Bootstrap, 2 years DevLogic PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, AWS jQuery, 5 years Ekonomik Lean Development, 4 years MS Windows Server, Delphi, Vb.net, FoxPro MySQL, 9 years jQuery UI, 3 years PREFERRED ENVIRONMENT THE MOST AMAZING... Git, BitBucket, PhpStorm, OS X ...system I've created is a 500+ website ring with content controlled from one place. EMPLOYMENT CEO, Software Architect RAPTOR Agency 2006 - PRESENT Developed large-scale systems and provided support for horizontal and vertical scaling. Implemented UI/UX improvements. Achieved a breakthrough by using Amazon services. Extended the use of frameworks, including CodeIgniter, Zend, and Yii. Handled development and customer support for small, mid-range, and large companies creating accounting software in Serbia. Created web marketing software, including a web-ring of 500+ domains with centralized control of content (news, ads, links) and distribution. Provided technical customer support and remote user support. Technologies: PHP, Android Software Architect DevLogic 2013 - 2015 Architected software for Accomplice, helping marketers deliver the most relevant message to the most receptive audience analyzing data from multi-channel social networks and using machine learning. Developed a website for ODG VR glasses; the really interesting thing is when developers take full advantage of their AR capabilities. Architected software for The Orchard, a specialized web shop for jewelry. Complex data queries, multiple SDK integration, free items attribute definition, complex back-end for interface, and usability configuration. Developed for CentrCam, an innovative 360-degree camera. Segmented upload huge files from multiple computers. Developed UI/UX for Achoo, created to give bloggers and news media websites a different approach to work together, and to better leverage the opportunity of influential marketing within the content. Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, AWS Developer Ekonomik 1998 - 2014 Learned small, midsize, and large company accounting. Provided live accounting data management with customer reliability and confidentiality. Developed accounting workflow features according to customer requirements. Generated custom reports and optimized queries. Provided documentation and versioning with backward compatibility. The Holy Grail of accounting. Technologies: MS Windows Server, Delphi, Vb.net, FoxPro Lead Web Developer EUTELNET 2002 - 2012 Worked with a large number of customers, doing web development support for a hosting company and dealing with everyday server problems. Dealt with server load problems stemming from overuse of deprecated functions and an increasing number of visitors. Designed pixel perfect HTML/CSS responsive sites. Multitasked on several different fronts, from development and design to server maintenance. Worked on internet marketing, distributing the system with ads, links, and keyword-related content serving. Technologies: VB.NET, Perl, Python, PHP, JavaScript, Apache, Nginx Web Development and Sales BC Group computers 2004 - 2006 Developed eCommerce websites. Integrated data and custom drop shipping. Integrated and utilized FB, Twitter, and Instagram SDKs. Mined data and tracked competition and customers, performing big data analytics. Optimized MySQL/SQL queries. Provided per-person optimizations. Built a custom URL shortener with tracker. Provided technical customer support. Technologies: PHP, JavaScript, VB.NET, MySQL, Data mining, SDK integration CEO, Customer Support, Lead Developer MIKS Computers (Prijepolje, Serbia) 1996 - 2004 Worked as a computer reseller. Provided maintenance, support, and desktop and web application development. Gained knowledge about user experience, web, consumer, UI/UX design, and design in general. Worked on the development of accounting software now used by most of the companies in my hometown. Worked creatively to produce commercials for a local radio/TV station. Learned to use SoundForge and MultiTrack audio mixers. Developed for web using VBScript, CGI, and PHP. Technologies: Delphi, FoxPro, PHP, JavaScript, Android EDUCATION Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty of Technical Sciences Cacak - Cacak. Serbia Bachelor's degree in Statistics University of Belgrade Faculty of Mathematics - Belgrade, Serbia SKILLS 2001 - 2005 1996 - 1999 Languages CSS3, PHP, FoxPro, CSS, JavaScript, SCSS, SQL, UML, Delphi, Clarion, LessCSS, dBASE Frameworks Zend Framework, Vanilla JS, JavaScript MV* Framework, TYPO3, Yii, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Twitter Bootstrap, Bootstrap, Bootstrap 3, Yii 2, FuelPHP, PHPUnit, JavaScript MVC, Foundation CSS, Laravel, PhoneGap, AngularJS, Kendo UI, Google Web Toolkit, Ext JS, Dojo, Ext JS 5, Ember.js, Prototype, Symfony, Symfony2, Kendo MVC, YUI App Framework, Chrome, Express, Express.io, Kendo, Selenium, Zend Framework 2, Zend Libraries/APIs Charts.js, D3.js, MooTools, Fabric, Bing Translate API, Highcharts, Google Translate API, REST API, JSON REST API, Google Analytics, jQuery, Twitter API, DHTMLX, AngularUI, YUI, Script.aculo.us, Node.js, PayPal API, Stripe API, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile, Facebook API, Twitter SDK, Facebook SDK, Google Charts, Google Maps, Google Maps SDK, SQLite, Bing Maps, Dojo Toolkit, Instagram API, Bing Maps API Tools Netbeans, Adobe Photoshop, Git flow, Google Docs, Adobe Illustrator, Eclipse, PHPEdit, Adobe Creative Suite, Eclipse IDE, Enterprise Architect, YUI Compressor, jQuery plugins, phpMyAdmin, MySQL Workbench, WP e-Commerce, Facebook Connect, cPanel, Audacity, Inkscape, Gimp, Apache, Git, Coda 2, PhpStorm, Google Webmaster Tools, Nginx, Team Track, TeamViewer, Concrete5, php-fpm, Zend Studio, Zend debugger, Moodle Paradigms Lean Startup, KISS, Clean Code, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Agile Software Development, Graphic Design, Responsive Web Design, REST, User experience design, User-centered Design, User Interface Design, Web App Development, Functional programming, Lean Development, Cross-browser JavaScript, Domain-driven Design, Web Design, Modular Development, Visual Design, Domain-driven Development, UI Testing, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing, Rapid prototyping, Scrum, Agile Software Testing, Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning Platforms WordPress, MS-DOS, WordPress, Mac OS, Mac, Mac OS X, Firefox, Chrome Extensions, Ubuntu, Joomla, Linux, Joomla 3, osCommerce, BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi Storage Database Performance, MySQL, Database, PostgreSQL, MySQLi, Database Modeling, NoSQL, MongoDB, Amazon S3, PostgresDB Misc Product Management, Software Development, Software Design, Visual Identity, Wireframes, Wireframing, UI Design, UX Design, Logo Design, Designer, Scraping, Web Scraping, Data Mining, RESTful, UX, Responsive Web Apps, UX/UI, DHTML, Web Development, GUI Development, Database Design, Mobile Web, Mobile First, HTML5 Mobile Apps, UI, CMS, Icon Design, App Design, System Design, Front-end architecture, Application architecture, Software Architecture, eCommerce, CommonJS, WooCommerce, Content Management, SSH, PHPDoc, Information extraction, Information Architecture, Software Testing, PSD to HTML5, TCP/IP, CSS Preprocessors, jQuery Validation, Team Mentoring, Stripe Payment, API Design, PayPal Integration, Design, Architecture, Technical Project Management, Project Management, System Architecture, Machine Learning COMMUNITY Conference Speaker at Google Code Day http://gcd.phpsrbija.rs/ Keynote title: Yii: Yes it is! Advanced techniques, simplicity, syntax, modules, widgets, extensions, and scalability. Announcing Yii2 Speaker at WordCamp Switzerland https://switzerland.wordcamp.org/2015/ WordPress 'Related Posts' via user interaction. Created an interaction (social shares, time spend on post, etc) to calculate related posts to be shown. Co-Founder of OpenWeb meetup (Former PHP BH) http://www.meetup.com/Sarajevo-PHP-Meetup/ Bosnia OpenWeb Meetup is a once in a month gathering of professionals and enthusiasts who are using various web technologies. Lot's of fun, tech talk, networking and presentations around the state of open web technologies in Bosnia and around the globe are warranted. Toptal Mentor A mentor in the Toptal Global Mentor’s Program. This program is a partnership between Toptal and General Assembly to provide high quality mentorship for students from minority and low income backgrounds who are looking to begin their careers as professional software engineers. EXPERIENCE / PORTFOLIO Biotillion ColdSight System (Development) http://www.biotillion.com The purpose of the ColdSIGHT™ system is to track sample boxes in ultra-low temperature (ULT) freezers. ColdSIGHT™ is designed for -80 ºC freezers that contain racks placed on shelves which in turn hold boxes of samples. I was working on: - API to work with beaglebone (BB) - Implementing TCP protocol for communication with BB - Report generator - Device simulator - UI for managing freezers, sample retrieval process IronTracker for RoughneckRentals (Development) http://iron.roughneckrentals.us Software for tracking the inspection of iron/pipe in the oil field business. Enhanced filters, actions, multi user account, user priviledges, editing history, data protection Technologies: PHP/Yii, JavaScript/jQuery, CSS/Bootstrap Databse: MySQL CharterCross Funding Platform (Development) http://chartercross.com/ Advisory services for individual as well as corporate clients. Client management system with support for multiple managers, manager hierarchy. Client scheduling and history management. Data duplicate checker, merging, XLS importer. PHP Yii framework, MySQL, MS SQL Multi-layer credentials/roles and permissions configuration custom reporting system, custom Bootstrap theme. MCAT Exam Testing Service (Development) System provides practice for those who have MCAT preparation products from the AAMC.The Medical College Admission Test by the AAMC, is a standardized, multiplechoice examination created to help medical school admissions offices assess your problem solving, critical thinking, and knowledge of natural, behavioral, and social science concepts and principles prerequisite to the study of medicine. Almost all U.S. medical schools and many Canadian medical schools require you to submit MCAT exam scores as part of your admission application. PHP Yii framework, MySQL, Stripe, and PayPal payment system SDKs, custom reporting system, custom Bootstrap theme, and content copy protection Conference Speaker at Google Code Day (Other amazing things) http://gcd.phpsrbija.rs/ Keynote title: Yii: Yes it is! Advanced techniques, simplicity, syntax, modules, widgets, extensions, and scalability. Announcing Yii2 Speaker at WordCamp Switzerland (Other amazing things) https://switzerland.wordcamp.org/2015/ WordPress 'Related Posts' via user interaction. Created an interaction (social shares, time spend on post, etc) to calculate related posts to be shown. Co-Founder of OpenWeb meetup (Former PHP BH) (Other amazing things) http://www.meetup.com/Sarajevo-PHP-Meetup/ Bosnia OpenWeb Meetup is a once in a month gathering of professionals and enthusiasts who are using various web technologies. Lot's of fun, tech talk, networking and presentations around the state of open web technologies in Bosnia and around the globe are warranted. Accomplice (Development) https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/accompliceio Accomplice helps marketers run the most efficient digital ad campaigns in the world with our first-in-class optimization technology. Accomplice is fast-growing, Series-A funded digital marketing software company based in San Francisco. We work with brands & agencies to make their marketing smarter by connecting the dots between digital marketing and business objectives. - machine learning - cost-driven automatization - FB API - Google AdWords API - Twitter API - Vanilla.js UI/UX - big data aggregation ODG (Development) http://www.osterhoutgroup.com Osterhout Design Group (ODG) is a private company headquartered in San Francisco. Our story begins in 1999, revolutionizing the high-tech toy industry by integrating highperformance electronics to create devices loved by the old and young alike. Today, ODG is changing the world of computing with its Augmented Reality Smartglasses. - Vanilla.js - Responsive web layout Achoo (Development) http://www.getachoo.com/ Powerful Software that Tracks, Monitors and Analyses Brand Activity across Different Influencer Data Sources - UI/UX design CentrCam (Development) http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/centr-cam-is-a-gopro-competitor-that-captureseverything-around-you/ CENTR allows you to capture your experiences and share them in a whole new way. The CENTR Camera allows you to record 360° video in real time. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/-/centr-interactive-panoramic-video-inthe-palm-of-y - web development - Vanilla.js - embedded video player - large files segmented upload æ URL Shortner (Development) A simple but effective URL shortener with an API for developers. I created it for the IYWP system, as existing solutions did not match our requirements. Improve Your Web Position (IYWP) (Development) http://www.improveyourwebposition.com Unlike other online advertising systems, IYWP utilizes over 500 self-maintained websites/domains to produce a back-linking service for our customers. It features a web system with centrally controlled content, enabling search functionality for sites with a given niche/keyword. Technologies used: PHP/JavaScript, MySQL, server optimization. Sub-projects: URL shortener, user tracker, ads server Raumkraft (Development) http://www.praxis-raumkraft.ch/ Custom made WordPress site, custom plugins, on-page interaction. Pixel perfect theme with several master pages. WiFi 033/Co-founder (Development) http://wifi033.net/ Local community wireless network site. With a simple and unique front-end it has a powerful back-end, tracking customer payments and activity, AP geolocations, and system costs, predicting revenue, and auto-serving invoices.