Marko Ilic, Software
Engineer
With 8 years of experience
I translate looseideas into productionsoftware
My Experience
2018
Freelance Web Developer
- Learned how to get clients
- Worked on many websites with vanilla JS on front-end and PHP on back-end
HTMLCSSJavaScriptPHPWordPressMySQL2019
Junior Engineer
Zyrgon Network Group
- Built a reusable front-end calendar library with vanilla JS
- Built a WordPress plugin that serves an app for multi-step hotel booking
- Integrated PayPal, cryptocurrency and ATM payment options
WordPressPHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptjQueryGitHTMLCSS2020
Front-end Engineer
Fintech Market
- Migrated entire application from Vue 2 to Vue 3
- Resolved 80% of front-end related tickets that have accumulated over 4 years in 6 months
- Increased client happiness with a documentation search that searches across all Markdown files
- Mentored junior front-end developers
- Updated 5 year old libraries to their latest versions
Vue.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPostgreSQLGitUnit testingE2E testing2022
Full-stack Engineer (client facing)
Great Agency Inc.
- Facilitated working on prospects by building a “comment thread” for posting comments and attaching files
- Reduced data duplication by building a tool to merge duplicate entries of a client
- Built insurance forms as they are in PDFs without requiring users to learn new UI
- Provided quick access to all data in a database with “search as you type” global search
Vue.jsTypeScriptPythonNode.jsMySQLGitUnit testingE2E testing2023
Lead Engineer
Great Agency Inc.
- Led a team of 4 to design, develop and test features for our client
- Reduced deployment time by 60% by caching dependencies in an in-house Docker image
- Eliminated data losses with “save as you type” forms
- Built a customer ACH intake form meeting PII standards via encryption, access controls, and data minimization.
- Moved all company documents to AWS S3 by building a custom document upload module
- Developed user friendly form validation, allowing new users to learn the software more quickly
- Built graphical visualizations of MySQL data with data filtering that significantly increased data visibility
Team LeadershipSDLCCode ReviewCI/CDDockerAWS2025
Senior Cloud Engineer
Auvaria
- Designed and developed an automated invoicing pipeline for AWS cloud reselling, saving CEO 22+ hours/month
- Constructed scalable and cost-effective AWS infrastructure for clients, reducing bill for each client on average by 15%
- Built and presented data analysis and AI PoCs for clients with a 1/5 go-to-production conversion rate
- Cut deploys from days to <1h for 12 teams via standard CI/CD, IaC modules and observability; MTTR down 60%
- Ended peak outages by moving on-prem monolith to multi-AZ AWS ECS (Terraform): 99.95% uptime, -30% cost
AWSTerraformTerragruntPythonNode.jsTypeScriptAgentic coding
MyCertifications
Agentic Workflow
I've transitioned to agentic engineering because it lets me move faster while keeping a higher-level overview of the whole system, so I can zoom into any individual component when I have to. My workflow is built on mattpocock/skills.
- 01
Pathfinding / Grilling
I make an LLM relentlessly interview me about a plan or design until all open questions are resolved.
- 02
Prototyping
LLM can't think in terms of looks and feel, prototyping is for building a throwaway prototype to answer a design question.
- 03
Domain-driven Design (DDD)
Having a strict common glossary of terms with an LLM improves code quality and brings clarity to documentation.
- 04
Red/Green TDD
Writing code is done in test-driven development with a red-green-refactor loop. LLM builds features or fixes bugs one vertical slice at a time.
My Skills
AWS
Docker
Linux
Bash
Git
GitHub
GitHub Actions
GitLab
Neovim
Claude Code
Python
FastAPI
TypeScript
Node.js
React
Next.js
Vue
Tailwind
HTML5
CSS3
PHP
Laravel
Get in touch
Let's work
together
Whether you have a product to build, a system to scale, or a role to fill, I'd be glad to hear about it. Reach out directly, or grab my CV for the full picture.