Dragan Basta - CEO, PeakNick

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Network Power<100 people

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Startup Founder

💸66%

Marketing

✔️66%

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🇨🇦33%

Canada

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India

Work Background

PeaknickCEO

Oct. 2018

Ball SkillerCo-Founder / CTO

Sep. 2020Belgrade, Serbia

PatchAiTECH CONSULTANT

May. 2019 - May. 2020Belgrade, SerbiaConcentrated on providing technical consultancy to the COO and CEO of this health startup during the project of digitalizing clinical trials by orchestrating 2 distributed teams, organizing technical interviews, mentoring, managing and optimizing workflows. - Enabled migration from IBM Cloud to AWS Cloud infrastructure by designing the architecture and supporting the transition. - Facilitated timely and accurate code development by devising a software development strategy for platform development. - Helped with full AI/Machine Learning development roadmap, tools, and techniques. - Improved code readability by code review and analysis, recommending design patterns and software design principles, and enforcing code refactoring execution. - Successfully onboarded a CTO by reviewing 80+ resumes, identifying the most suitable applicants, and interviewing the candidate.

PeaknickLEAD COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER - WELD QUALITY CHECK

May. 2019 - May. 2020Focused on leading and managing a project team of 3, including iOS Development Engineer, GPU Development Engineer, and Ph.D. Mathematician in developing an innovative Computer Vision/Deep Learning-based application for checking mechanical welds on various materials, thereby significantly reducing manual labor, boosting time efficiency, and providing prompt and accurate feedback for the welder and QA department with overall quality assurance. - Boost the application speed performance by 30% compared to the CPU version through generating an external library for GPU execution of the feature recognition algorithm. - Accelerated distance calculation by 20% and increased accuracy by 10% by creating a library for GPU execution of the distance calculation algorithm using the homography technique. - Enable simple, effortless application utilization by designing frictionless UX flow and writing technical documentation with project requests as inputs in coordination with Mechanical Engineers. - Ensure high precision pattern and feature recognition percentage with no false positives or false negatives by taking 1M+ images in pre-welding, during welding, and post-welding phases while testing MVP. - Developed fully digitalized and automated weld check with an accuracy of over 80% and time reduced by 100-fold, thereby providing consistent quality, reliable and uniformed process, and eliminating the human error possibility. - Provided independent process which does not rely on network bandwidth or server availability by implementing GPU code execution on mobile devices. - Cut the communication between Mechanical Engineers and Software Development team by 20% through leveraging extensive knowledge of welding and mechanical production and successfully translating all mechanical inputs into software development tasks.

The Local EuropeSENIOR MOBILE DEVELOPER (NATIVE iOS & ANDROID)

Nov. 2018 - Apr. 2020RemoteOriented in leading UX design, overall app architecture, software development, code review, and code refactoring for this Newsagency application. - Grew app visibility on the AppStore by redesigning the iOS app and modifying UI and UX according to new Apple design guidelines in cooperation with the Art/Design team. - Increased average rank of the app and usage time by 50% through conducting code refactoring and eliminating bugs. - Streamlined the development flow by designing project requirements, translating them into development tasks and Scrum sprints. - Created and integrated fully flexible 3rd party push notification services using One Signal framework, thereby enabling Admins and Writers to efficiently control, schedule, and design push notifications. - Enabled The Local to charge for mobile articles by integrating external (Piano.io) paywall framework to the mobile app. - Cut the codebase by 20% and provided more intuitive code design by conducting full Swift codebase refactoring and introducing fundamental design patterns and software design principles, achieving MVVM app design. - Reduced testing core functionalities, including article download, push notifications, and CDN communication, by 50% through designing automated tests within XCode.

PeaknickCOMPUTER VISION ENGINEER

Sep. 2018 - May. 2019Emphasis on creating Hololens application for electrical transformer systems maintenance through integrating algorithms and generating external library for GPU execution of the feature recognition algorithm, ensuring code quality and exceptional quality of details in VR and 3D screens. - Created high-quality and high-performance scanning software by introducing Unity and Vuforia libraries for the MVP. - Wrote technical documentation by utilizing project requests as inputs and designed UX. - Boosted 2 junior CV developers' skills and competencies by managing and training them on using well-known computer vision techniques and libraries and introducing them to Computer vision's basic concepts. - Provided stateless and asynchronous server infrastructure through designing the entire server architecture and enabling data storage in the internal Hololens memory with postponed uploading possibility. - Delivered real-time stored sensor values, eliminating the lag/latency possibility by creating AWS-based sensor data storage. - Cut the feature recognition execution time by 25% through applying mathematical optimization methods and optimizing the library. - Boosted code readability and decreased the codebase by 20% through code refactoring and implementation of proper design patterns. - Increased latency by 15% through instituting GPU code execution for mobile devices.

CNI Health Research StartupTECH LEAD

Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019RemoteEmphasis on designing and integrating entire server infrastructure on Amazon services and planning server resources for this wearable/mobile/web platform for real-time health monitoring. - Cut the task assigning time and introduced issue tracking via Atlassian Jira software by orchestrating a team of 4, including a Data Scientist, Web Developer, and Mobile Developers within Agile development rules. - Ensured efficient collection of sensitive ECG data and secure sending over the network in real-time by designing UI and UX flow and implementing it on WatchOS based app for live ECG data. - Defined all process aspects through setting work plans, identifying CPU and GPU resources, and determining timelines and budget, resulting in cutting the AWS budget by 20% and project timeline by 3 months. - Secured code changes met requirements and specifications by planning, documenting, and conducting daily tests, including crucial stress tests. - Efficiently translated project change requests from Doctors and Field Testers into technical tasks, stories, and epics during research, development, and deployment phases, maintaining key software development principles. - Boosted app stability by 30% through identifying and improving code inefficiencies. - Designed, monitored, and implemented a highly reliable production-ready software system with a capacity of up to 1000 real-time monitored patients with less than 5% downtime for v1.0. Improved network communication by optimizing data gathering from wearables.

Wolf3DAUGMENTED REALITY/COMPUTER VISION iOS DEVELOPER

Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017Belgrade, Serbia / Tallin, EstoniaFocused on writing, developing, and releasing an iOS app from scratch for 3D reconstruction and avatar generation of user's face, automatically extracted only from images captured with iPhone camera. - Enabled generation of perfect face avatars by developing a head pose estimation algorithm that relied on dlib for face feature detection and OpenCV libraries. - Led the AppStore and TestFlight release cycle through preparing the documentation and testing the app. - Increased algorithm speed by 20% (compared to the CPU) by implementing high-performance algorithm C++ for sparse cloud generation executed on mobile phone GPU. - Introduced avatars (virtual users) to the augmented reality world with the limited first version of ARKit. Improved pose estimation algorithm by 25% through adapting experimental examples from research papers.

University of Belgrade, School of Electrical EngineeringTEACHING ASSISTANT

Sep. 2010 - Jul. 2016Belgrade, SerbiaConcentrated on working on all programming courses (Pascal, C, C++, Java) related to programming, databases, algorithms, and data structures courses, creating project tasks, and grading laboratory projects and homework for approximately 90 students. Assistance on following courses: - Programming internet applications / Internet programming - Software Testing - Software Project Management - Computer Networks 1 - Computer Networks 2 - Algorithms and data structures 1 - Algorithms and data structures 2 - Operating systems 1 - Operating systems 2

Research Department of School of Electrical EngineeringSOFTWARE ENGINEER/DATA SECURITY – R&D

Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2016Belgrade, SerbiaOriented on developing a completely secure and end-to-end encrypted VOIP solution with latency under 200ms in collaboration with the faculty mentor as part of the Master Thesis and Ph.D. applying thesis. - Designed and integrated high-performing RTP and SIP algorithms for key exchange and encrypted voice data exchange. - Ensured completely secure VOIP conference calls by creating a fully encrypted, distributed, serverless proprietary platform.

NordeusSOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

Jun. 2012 - Mar. 2013Belgrade, SerbiaEmphasis on ensuring game quality as per the design, bugs-free, and without any inconsistent states by testing mobile clients for iOS and Android written in objective - C language with SpriteKit library along with automated UI and non-UI tests. - Drove continuous improvement of the automatic testing process and testing environment, such as integrating code coverage software and browser compatibility testing platform. - Cut and optimized testing process by 20% through streamlining automatic testing environment, unit tests, and writing stress tests. - Developed and optimized 10-15 game design/UX for mobile clients in collaboration with Game Designers. - Enabled efficient gathering of approx. 40GB data from 13M active users per month by developing analytics scripts for statistics servers (data-mining Linux servers), ensuring zero lost data, precise and promptly written scripts.