Milan Simonović-Cloud architect and DevOps engineer with two decades of expertise and a proven track record of taking ideas and delivering them
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Experience
Cloud Architect & DevOps
Avaloq
- Main cloud solution architect on a banking SaaS offering hosted in Azure.
- Fully automated the Azure infrastructure in Terraform.
- Reduced cloud costs by 50%.
- Responded to incidents, found root-causes and closed with post-mortems.
Solutions Architect
Squirro
- Enterprise Generative AI for Search and Insights, with clients such as OCBC and Bank of England.
- Working as a senior solutions engineer in presales and also DevOps.
- Contributed to two successful sales to enterprise clients by making custom-tailored demos.
- Improved document handling efficiency and reduced errors for a large foreign bank by implementing a document status tracking system.
Solutions Architect
Cognition Controls
- A cloud-based building intelligence software running on IoT devices.
- Designing and implementing AWS infrastructure for device management.
DevOps Engineer
galleria.de
- A large ecommerce platform with over 80M monthly visits.
- Managed infrastructure with Terraform.
- Monitoring and alerting with Prometheus and Grafana.
- Incident detection and root cause analysis.
- 100% uptime during infrastructure upgrades and application deploys.
Solutions Architect & DevOps
University of California
- A scalable AI framework.
- Solved scalability and reliability problems.
- Implemented CI/CD, monitoring and alerting.
Solutions Architect
HelloEquity
- A real estate startup.
- Designed and implemented the data pipeline and solution architecture.
- After finishing the MVP and signing two business customers, the startup was successfully sold to a credit union.
Solutions Engineer & Devops
University of Zürich
Worked in a bioinformatics lab on data processing pipelines and web application development. Accomplishments include full stack development of 3 projects, data pipeline automation, building and operating an HPC cluster, building and maintaining an external data center to run our web applications, participating in an international scientific group that was developing a standard for representing protein interaction data, and working as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate Python course.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Education, Biotechnology, Banking and Finance, Retail, and Real Estate.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Operations, Product Development, Research and Development, and Sales.
Skills
- Devops (15y)
- Python | Node.Js | Java (8y)
- Amazon Web Services (8y)
- Terraform (5y)
- Ci/Cd (5y)
- Kubernetes (2y)
- Azure (2y)
- Sql & Nosql (10y)
Languages
Education
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Niš
Bachelor's degree · Electrical Engineering · Serbia
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Niš
Master of Science · Computer Science · Serbia
Certifications & licenses
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
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Experience
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Milan is based in Zürich, Switzerland and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Milan speaks the following languages: Serbian (Native), English (Advanced), German (Intermediate).
Milan has at least 16 years of experience. During this time, Milan has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 7 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 4 months. Note that Milan may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Milan would be well-suited for roles such as: Cloud Architect & DevOps, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer.
Milan's most recent position is Cloud Architect & DevOps at Avaloq.
In recent years, Milan has worked for Avaloq, Squirro, Cognition Controls, galleria.de, and University of California.
Milan is most experienced in industries like Education, Biotechnology, and Banking and Finance. Milan also has some experience in Retail, Real Estate, and Information Technology.
Milan is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Product Development. Milan also has some experience in Research and Development and Sales.
Milan has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Education, and Retail.
Milan has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Sales.
Milan holds a Master in Computer Science from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Niš and a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Niš.
Milan has 2 certificates. These include: AWS Solutions Architect Associate and HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
Milan is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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