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Work Background
Celina IT Consulting UGFounder
Mar. 2024Berlin, Germanycelina.solutions is a Cloud Engineering & DevOps consulting company offering services on development of cloud infrastructure and devops processes for companies. Read more on https://celina.solutions
CleverShuttleDirector of Engineering
Jun. 2022 - Jul. 2023Berlin, GermanyResponsbile for 27 people allocated in 5 cross-functional remote teams, I guide the engineering teams to delivery excellence. By coaching and leading by example, I help my teams to get the best out of themselves, further develop and expand our organization, and build a healthy and strong engineering culture. My responsibilities include: - Develop and implement the Technical Strategy and Roadmap
- Oversee development teams and coach engineering managers
- Oversee the running and development of the cloud infrastructure
- Talent acquisition (hiring process, interviewing, managing external contractors)
- Talent retention (coaching, personal growth plans, personal improvement plans)
- Stakeholder management
Schindler GroupTeam Lead
Jan. 2019 - May. 2022Berlin, Berlin, GermanyResponsible for:
- Leading multiplie teams of 10+ members distributed in three countries
- Defining and improving of Software Development processes and practices
- Defining and evolving of Software Architectures of our products
- Solution development
- Cloud infrastructure
- Hiring, coaching, and mentoring Technologies: Azure and Kubernetes
Springer NatureTech Lead/Senior Software Engineer
Feb. 2017 - Dec. 2018Berlin Area, GermanyMain responsibilities included: - Leading the dev team
- Architecting web software solutions
- Serve as a single point of contact for PO & PM
- Tech planning - Coaching
- Help recruiting new devs by conducting interviews and evaluating technical challenge solutions
- Development of web applications and APIs using Ruby on Rails and Kotlin/Http4k/SpringBoot
- Implementing search using Elasticsearch
BCG Digital VenturesSenior Developer
Nov. 2015 - Jan. 2017Berlin Area, GermanyWeb application development
API development Notable projects: COUP Mobility GmbH
COUP Mobility GmbHSenior Engineer
Jan. 2016 - Dec. 2016Berlin Area, GermanyResponsibilities: Development of microservices for payments solution including credit card processing, invoicing and billing using Ruby on Rails and Sinatra frameworks.
ProTax2 project of Ministry of Finance, government of the Republic of KosovoSoftware Architect
Jun. 2014 - Oct. 2015KosovoDesign and implementation of the Property Tax software solution for the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo.
FreelancerFreelance Software Developer
Feb. 2009 - Oct. 2015Republic of KosovoAs a freelancer, I developed several software applications for different clients, amongst: - Bulk SMS marketing web application
- Student Management Application
- Exam Management Application
- Financial accounting software
- Several Hybrid mobile apps published to Apple Appstore and Google Playstore
- Several web sites
- Feasibility studies and consulting for the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, and different non governmental organisations and private businesses
RIT Kosovo (A.U.K)Course Instructor
Nov. 2013 - Sep. 2015PristinaCourse instructor for: Java course: Teaching Java programming language fundamentals.
Web development course: Teaching FrontEnd web development using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript
Web development course: PHP & MySQL
Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo J.S.C.Software Developer
May. 2006 - Jun. 2014Prishtina - KosovoMy responsibilities in this job position were to design and implement enterprise level applications for the requirements of the bank, provide IT consultations to the business line, elicit business requirements for software solutions, turn them into IT specifications and then implement those requirements together with the development team, from the database level, business logic to the presentation layer, as well as manage post deployment change management of the software we develop. We used SCRUM & ITIL for development and release management. I also keep end user training for internal staff of our company.
Technologies: C# (2.0 - 4.0), ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Javascript, JQuery, Web services, and SQL Server, Microsoft Biztalk, TFS
UBT - University for Business and TechnologyLecturer
Sep. 2009 - Oct. 2013Prishtina - KosovoLecturing:
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Web Engineering - Engineering of web applications using agile methodologies, HTML, PHP, JavaScript and CSS ---------
IT Security - IT Security principles, Secure Software Development, Threat Modeling
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Web applications and E-Technology - XML, XML Schemas, DTDs, XPath.
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OOP - Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation, Single Responsibility Principle, DRY principile, ...
American University in Kosovo - Training and Development InstituteJava Course Instructor
Dec. 2008 - Aug. 2009Prishtina - KosovoAt AUK TDI, I have worked as course instructor for Java SCJP certification preparation course, Programming Fundamentals with JAVA. I used to be teaching to students OOP concepts and Java programming. We focused on details of the language based on the requirements of Sun Java Programmer Certification for JavaSE 6.