Antonio Martinović

I have 7 years of professional experience in IT industry ranging from a software engineer to an engineering manager role. I have a constant will to learn new skills and technologies in application development and leadership, but I also spend a fair chunk of my time scouring Wikipedia and watching YouTube explainers videos. In my free time I also love to (in alphabetical order) bike, hike, listen to music, philosophize, play video games and read books.

Skills

Lately I’ve been working as a engineering manager, which gave me a great chance to do mentoring and coaching while leading teams on a microservice transformation which includes discussing with all stakeholders, planning and coordination and occasionally beating colleagues in Rocket League. Previously, I’ve been a software engineer in variety of areas like backend development with Kotlin and Spring Boot, frontend development React and React Native and also Android, DevOps with Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Crossplane which taught me to appreciate the advantages of CI/CD and GitOps. During my work I have used PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Elasticsearch and I have a very good understanding of GNU/Linux.

Besides the technical skills I’m confident in my human skills as well, as I’ve had the chance to work in very diverse and capable teams and been able to communicate through the requirements and problems with my colleagues and the clients in English and Croatian.

Work experience

reev GmbH, Zagreb, Croatia

May 2020 - Now

At reev I’ve helped in starting the Croatian office, I’ve put a lot of effort into building a team, mentoring and coaching, building a culture of trust and transparency, finding the right people to hire and establishing processes for learning and growing. I’ve been working as a technical lead and then grew with the company into an engineering manager role responsible for multiple teams.

Mantro GmbH, Zagreb, Croatia

July 2019 - May 2020

Worked as a software engineer using Kotlin and Spring Boot, TypeScript and React in collaboration with emonvia (now reev).

ShoutEm, Zagreb, Croatia - Full stack developer

May 2018 - June 2019

My involvement with the company involves fixing issues and developing new features for an mobile application development service. My scope was development of backend services using NodeJS and Express, frontend development using React and mobile development using React Native with a bit of work in Cordova and .Net also.

Inceptum d.o.o., Zagreb, Croatia - Android developer

March 2017 - April 2018

Work included development of Android applications and web services, alone and in a team. I have successfully implemented two Android projects and I am currently working on a project involving React Native for multiplatform development and TensorFlow for machine learning and object recognition.

ABIT d.o.o., Varaždin, Croatia - Junior Java developer

May 2016 - February 2017

I have worked on development of banking information system in Java. My responsibilities included developing banking solutions in accordance to customer specifications, testing of solutions, writing migration scripts and participation in meetings with clients.

Education

Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin, Croatia - Master of Informatics (in progress)

September 2016 - February 2020 Master’s thesis named “Primjena Hyperledger platforme” (eng. “Usage of Hyperledger platform”). The goal of this work is to develop an application based on blockchain technology with smart contracts. Thesis: Primjena Hyperledger platforme

Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin, Croatia - Bachelor of Informatics

September 2013 - August 2016

Thesis: Analysis and implementation of security exploits for Android OS

Information Systems Security course demonstrator

October 2017 - February 2018

I have thought my student colleagues about computer, application and network securities and lead exercises for exams.