
Danilo Anovic
Senior Software Engineer | Full Stack Development
Salary / Daily rate
Belgrade, Serbia
Mobility: Amsterdam, London, ...
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Remote only
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About me
Intro
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer focused on scalable backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled applications. I work with Python, Node.js, React, Kubernetes, AWS, and modern LLM/RAG workflows. I’m easy to communicate with, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently or with distributed teams. Best way to work with me: clear goals, honest feedback, and fast iteration.
Work experience
Senior Software Engineer
Databricks
Jan 2023 - Present
3 years 10 months
Remote
• Directed Kubernetes infrastructure programs supporting enterprise analytics platforms processing 1.5M+ daily events across 3 AWS regions. • Removed backend bottlenecks by redesigning PostgreSQL execution workflows, lowering API latency by about 20ms across heavily utilized services. • Led migration initiatives spanning 20+ microservices into Kubernetes environments, accelerating release velocity by about 25% while improving rollout stability. • Engineered Kafka streaming architectures ingesting about 650GB of analytics data daily while sustaining 99.8% service availability. • Unified observability workflows across 50+ production containers, shortening incident investigation time by about 20 minutes for engineering operations teams. • Redesigned cloud utilization strategies that reduced compute overhead by about 15% during sustained traffic spikes and resource-intensive workloads. • Shaped resiliency planning, backend governance standards, and scalability roadmaps supporting 300+ enterprise organizations worldwide.
Senior Software Engineer
Toptal
May 2020 - Dec 2022
2 years 8 months
Remote
• Delivered fintech, healthcare, SaaS, and e-commerce applications serving 80K+ active users across globally hosted cloud ecosystems. • Revitalized React and Next.js platforms, boosting Lighthouse performance scores by about 20 points while maintaining page load times under 2.5 seconds. • Developed Node.js and Python backend services capable of handling 300+ financial transactions per minute with resilient asynchronous processing. • Streamlined CI/CD operations using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Helm, decreasing deployment turnaround time by about 20 minutes across engineering organizations. • Expanded platform scalability through Redis-backed caching layers, GraphQL integration, and AWS modernization efforts supporting rapidly growing products. • Eliminated rendering slowdowns and database contention issues that stabilized application behavior during traffic surges exceeding about 2x standard load.
Lead Software Engineer
Levi9 Technology Services
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
4 years 1 month
Novi Sad, Serbia
• Spearheaded modernization programs for fintech and SaaS ecosystems handling 750K monthly API interactions. • Rebuilt legacy monolithic platforms into Docker-powered microservices architectures, lowering production incidents by about 18% and accelerating engineering throughput by about 24%. • Established Azure DevOps delivery frameworks enabling continuous deployment practices across 4+ engineering squads. • Reengineered database access layers and backend processing pipelines, decreasing response latency by about 23ms across mission-critical services. • Delivered enterprise React and Angular applications supporting 2.5K concurrent users with stronger maintainability and rendering efficiency. • Instituted automated validation frameworks and release safeguards that lowered regression defects by about 21%. • Guided 4+ engineers in cloud-native engineering, scalable backend architecture, and modern application development practices.
Software Engineer
Nordeus
Jul 2013 - Mar 2016
2 years 9 months
Belgrade, Serbia
• Improved application performance by about 14% through frontend rendering enhancements, backend execution tuning, and streamlined service coordination. • Created reusable UI libraries and internal engineering tooling adopted across 3+ product development teams, saving approximately 20 minutes per feature. • Implemented RESTful gameplay services enabling real-time synchronization and high-concurrency player activity. • Collaborated with product, QA, and design stakeholders, delivering stable feature launches in rapidly evolving gaming environments, averaging 4+ feature launches per quarter.
Education
University of Novi Sad
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering and Information Technology
2008 - 2013
4 years 10 months
Grade: 3.8 / 4