Vedad Šoše

💻 Engineering Manager / Full Stack Developer
🌍 Remote

✉️vedadsose@gmail.com
🐦@vedadsose
@vedadsose

About Me

Hello! I'm a passionate software developer from the city of Sarajevo, BiH. From recent times I started working as an Engineering Manager. I enjoy working on personal projects whenever I can.
Tools of choice: TypeScript, Node.js, React, React Native, AWS

Projects

Mapplegame
https://mapplegame.com

A fun Wordle spin-off. The goal of the game is to guess a capital anywhere in the world, each guess gives you the distance to the capital that we were looking for.
BlockTrain
BlockTrain lets you to build your own workout composed of existing exercises or ones you can create. When built you can enter guided workout mode, with a timer and workout details such as round number, current exercise name, etc.

- Download on App Store
- Download on Play Store

Experience

Engineering Manager @ YouGov Chat
November 2021 - Ongoing
Joined YouGov Chat as an engineering manager with a goal to improve the developer experience, the process around getting an idea from scratch to prod, etc.

Skills: Management, Architecture, Product
Full Stack Developer @ Playmaker
September 2020 - November 2021
Joined Playmaker in the first month after the launch on a mission to create a feature-rich community for FPL players. Worked on various parts of the system: web app, mobile app, backend, database, infrastructure.

Skills: React, React Native, GraphQL, Node.js, Typescript, AWS, PostgreSQL
Full Stack Developer @ UBDI
April 2019 - May 2020
I joined the UBDI team from the very beginning, where in a small team we built the whole platform from scratch using TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, React, React Native. During my time at UBDI I also gained more infrastructure knowledge, specifically AWS ECS, thanks to my colleagues.

Skills: React, React Native, Node.js, Typescript, Docker
Front End Developer / Team Lead @ Toptal
May 2017 - April 2019
At Toptal, I've worked in many different areas of the company. I've spent most of my time working on the main product: The Toptal Platform, introducing new features and maintaing current ones both for staff and clients.

As a Team Lead I've spent my time leading the public pages team, where I've gained both technical and people leadership skills.

Skills: React, Apollo, Backbone, Ruby on Rails, Leadership
iOS / Front End Developer @ Personal
Feb 2016 - May 2017
At Personal I was in charge of rewriting the Personal Cloud app, that let you store your personal data, fully encrypted.

Once Personal was acquired by Digi.me, I transitioned into a role of a Front End developer working on their React Electron app.

Skills: Swift, React, Electron
Full Stack Developer @ Intersoft
Nov 2012 - Feb 2016
At Intersoft I worked on their two most important projects:

Klix.ba
Klix.ba is the most popular media in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and I was involved in every step of building it. From database (MySQL), backend (PHP) and frontend (HTML/CSS/JS). As part of the project we built a powerful in-house CMS which is used by the writers team.

Market.ba
We built the (at-the-time) state of art platform for selling and buying items, with a bit of social network features. We used PHP, MySQL and Elasticsearch.

Skills: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch