Technical leader with 15+ years building and shipping digital products — regulated government infrastructure, civic tech, IoT, data pipelines, distributed systems. Currently leading engineering on Sweden's DIGG-regulated secure communications platform while founding a civic tech initiative in Serbia. I've spent most of my career being the person who made things happen: designing systems, building teams from scratch, navigating legal and organisational complexity, and keeping stakeholders aligned across time zones and languages.
Focused on work where engineering and social impact intersect — platforms that serve people, communities, or public institutions. Equally at home in a regulated compliance backlog and a grant application to the EU Delegation.
Experience
Founder & Product Lead
2025 – present
radnaakcija.rs — Belgrade, Serbia
Built and launched a neighbor-to-neighbor mutual aid platform — full product cycle from concept to live deployment, zero external budget
Designed the trust architecture: dual identity verification, blind mutual ratings, action history — civic tech in service of social cohesion
Preparing grant funding applications for expansion across 4 Serbian cities — targeting EU Delegation, Norwegian Embassy, and Western Balkans Fund
Registering non-profit entity; building donor relations and impact reporting framework ahead of first funding round
Civic tech
Product design
Grant strategy
Community building
NGO operations
Lead Engineer & Partner
2025 – present
ITSL — Stockholm · Swedish DIGG-regulated secure communications
Led engineering on a multi-service secure messaging platform delivering Sweden's government digital communication certification — owned integration design, protocol compliance, and cross-service contracts end to end
Built the team's AI-augmented engineering infrastructure from scratch — custom agent harness, automated CI/review/labeling pipelines, and a cross-session continuity system
Authored the regulatory certification readiness analysis — translated government compliance requirements into a structured engineering backlog, scored against test framework cases
Regulated infrastructure
AI-augmented engineering
System architecture
Government / public sector
Secure communications
Managing Partner & Engineering Lead
Oct 2017 – 2025
Goobit AB — Stockholm (Belgrade office)
Built the Belgrade engineering office from zero — recruited, onboarded, and managed the full team; handled local business administration and legal setup
Led product redesign of customer-facing platform and apps — coordinated design, engineering, and QA across distributed teams
Managed multi-project delivery: synchronized priorities between Stockholm and Belgrade, removed blockers, owned timelines
Owned talent strategy — hiring, team structure, performance, and growth paths for all Belgrade-based engineers
Team building
Distributed mgmt
Product delivery
Business ops
Fintech
Tech Lead — Civic IoT Platform
Aug 2021 – Sep 2022
RockIOT — Belgrade · Norway & UNICEF funded
Delivered a multi-component civic tech platform measuring air quality across Serbian schools — hardware protocol, data ingestion pipeline, web admin portal
End-to-end technical ownership in an internationally funded project: aligned with Norwegian development cooperation standards and UNICEF reporting requirements
Navigated a complex multi-stakeholder environment — international donors, local schools, government contacts — while maintaining delivery velocity
IoT / MQTT
Civic tech
Donor-funded delivery
Multi-stakeholder mgmt
Senior Engineer — Cloud Migration Lead
Mar 2016 – Sep 2017
Interventure — Belgrade · Client: GOGO (USA)
Led systems migration to AWS and microservices architecture for a US analytical platform — cross-functional coordination with US client stakeholders
Owned data pipeline design and security compliance across high-volume processing workloads
Data Engineer — NLP & Voice Pipelines
2015 – 2016
Sentient Machines — London
Designed and built voice processing data pipelines using ML models to detect sentiment in support agent interactions — end-to-end from ingestion to batch inference
Collaborated closely with data scientists on NLP model integration — bridging research and production engineering in an applied AI environment
Gained hands-on experience constructing large-scale data pipelines and working within an applied ML research environment
NLP / ML
Data pipelines
Voice processing
Python
Software Engineer → Senior
2008 – 2016
Dimoco · Seavus · A Group · FON University — Belgrade
Progressed from developer to senior across mobile payments, vehicle insurance systems, ERP, and banking integration — building the technical foundation for later leadership roles
FON University: teaching and research assistant — two published papers (Springer)
What I'm building toward
Civic Tech Leadership
Building and leading platforms that address real community needs — radnaakcija.rs as a model for neighbor-led mutual aid, scalable across the Western Balkans
Head of Product / Engineering
Leading product and engineering teams in mission-driven organisations — where I can bring both technical depth and management experience to bear
Fractional CTO
For NGOs, civic tech initiatives, and early-stage companies that need senior technical leadership without a full-time hire
Grant-funded Projects
Experienced with international donor standards (Norway/UNICEF). Available to lead technical delivery on EU, bilateral, or foundation-funded programmes