Bio
I was born in Sarajevo into a software family. My father was one of the engineers behind the Yugoslav IRIS PC-16, and I started programming in the 1980s in BASIC on a ZX Spectrum, then on an IBM XT and the IRIS itself. I have been a second-generation developer ever since.
Experience
Trucking Hub — Chicago, United States
- Chief Technology Officer, September 2022 to present
Tech World With Milan — Belgrade, Serbia
- Author of Laws of Software Engineering, April 2026 to present
- Founder and author, June 2019 to present
First Principles Consultancy — Belgrade, Serbia
- Engineering leadership coach, May 2023 to present
- Independent consultant and owner, 2011 to 2017
3MD Studio — Belgrade, Serbia
- Interim CEO, May 2024 to May 2025
Zühlke Group — Belgrade, Serbia
- Principal Consultant, January to September 2022
- Group Cloud Capability Lead, August 2020 to August 2022
- Team Lead and Engineering Manager, January 2021 to April 2022
- Lead Software Architect, January 2019 to December 2021
- Expert Software Engineer, October 2017 to December 2018
Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) — Belgrade, Serbia
- Head of Engineering, March 2014 to September 2017
- Head of Software Development Department, November 2011 to March 2014
- Senior Software Engineer and Team Leader, March 2009 to October 2011
- Software Engineer, September 2004 to February 2009
GOOD OLD AI Research Network — University of Belgrade, Serbia
- Researcher, October 2005 to February 2012
Abell Soft — Belgrade, Serbia
- Junior Software Developer, July 2001 to September 2002
Advisory and teaching
WeAreDevelopers World Congress — Berlin, Germany
- Program Board Advisory Member, 2023 to 2025
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences — Belgrade, Serbia
- Alumni ambassador, April 2024 to present
- Guest lecturer, December 2021 to present
Education
PhD in Computer Science — University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia
Thesis: Modeling Rule-Driven Service Oriented Architectures.
M.Sc. in Computer Science — University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Serbia, GPA 9.7/10
Thesis: Modeling Rules on the Semantic Web.
Honours and awards
- Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, since 2023
- Best Paper Award, SWESE 2007, for Model Transformations to Share Rules between SWRL and R2ML
- University scholarship for superior academic achievement, Graduate School of Business Studies
- Ranked in the top 1% of class, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Applied Studies
Certifications
Microsoft
- Azure Developer Associate, 2021
- Azure Fundamentals, 2020
- MCSD: Web Applications and App Builder, 2016
- MCSA: SQL Server 2012/2014, 2013
- MCP, 2013
- MCPD: Web Developer, 2011
- MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Service Communication Applications
Agile and delivery
- Certified SAFe 5 DevOps Practitioner, 2022
- Certified SAFe 5 Agilist, 2021
- Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner, 2021
- Professional Scrum Developer, Scrum.org, 2018
- Certified ScrumMaster, Scrum Alliance, trained by James Coplien, 2009
Coaching and leadership
- The Art and Science of Coaching (Erickson Coaching International), Atria Group, 2023
- Discover PCM, Atria Group, 2023
- High Performance Team Coaching, Atria Group, 2022
- EssenZ Leadership Program, 2022
- Agile Leadership and Self-organization with Andrea Provaglio, 2018
Research
Twenty-plus peer-reviewed papers, 450+ citations, and my editorial board and programme committee service are on Research.