Danilo Anovic

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years delivering full-stack solutions, modernizing fintech platforms and achieving 30% faster release cycles while adhering to OWASP security standards. Led cross-functional initiatives that reduced incident resolution time by 60% and mentored eight engineers, elevating code quality and security posture. Drives AI-augmented development pipelines, strategic scalability improvements, and data-driven decision making for high-growth financial applications.

Senior Software Engineer - Databricks - Remote

(2023-01)

• Engineered a React/Node.js micro-frontend platform using TypeScript, collaborating with three product squads to cut feature delivery time 22% while meeting OWASP compliance.
• Designed an AI-assisted scaffolding tool that generated boilerplate React components and Jest tests, reducing initial development effort by 35% across 12 teams.
• Implemented automated RCA dashboards integrating PostgreSQL metrics, decreasing mean time to resolve incidents from 4.7 hours to 1.9 hours over six months.
• Led a mentorship program teaching secure coding (OWASP, PGP encryption) to eight junior engineers, resulting in a 40% drop in security findings.
• Authored a cross-team security guideline covering mTLS and OAuth 2.0 flows, adopted by five engineering groups and audited with zero critical issues.
• Integrated AWS ECS and RDS services into CI/CD pipeline, enabling zero-downtime deployments for 24 microservices and improving release frequency by 30%.
• Optimized PostgreSQL query layer with partitioning and index tuning, boosting transaction throughput 18% for high-volume fintech APIs.

Senior Software Engineer - Toptal - Remote

(2020-05 - 2022-12)

• Analyzed performance profiling of legacy React codebase, identifying 47 ms latency hotspots and refactoring them to achieve 27% faster page loads.
• Piloted adoption of TypeScript across four client projects, increasing codebase reliability metrics by 15% and reducing runtime errors by 12%.
• Modernized a payment gateway integration using ISO 20022 messages and SFTP transfer, cutting settlement processing time from three days to six hours.
• Coordinated with security auditors to embed OWASP ASVS checks into CI, resulting in zero high-severity findings across nine releases.
• Presented quarterly architecture reviews to non-technical stakeholders, translating complex data-encryption (PGP) concepts into actionable business decisions.
• Automated unit-test generation via AI toolchain, increasing test coverage from 62% to 84% within two sprints.

Lead Software Engineer - Levi9 Technology Services - Novi Sad, Serbia

(2016-04 - 2020-04)

• Orchestrated a cross-functional team of 10 to migrate monolithic Java services to Node.js/React stack, delivering MVP in four months ahead of schedule.
• Diagnosed root-cause of intermittent service outages, implementing mTLS mutual authentication that eliminated 13 recurring incidents.
• Mentored five engineers in PostgreSQL schema design, improving data integrity and reducing migration downtime by 40%.
• Streamlined CI pipeline with Docker and AWS ECS, cutting build time 28% and enabling daily deployments.

Software Engineer - Nordeus - Belgrade, Serbia

(2013-07 - 2016-03)

• Documented internal wiki on secure API design (OAuth 2.0, PGP), referenced by three subsequent product teams.
• Established SFTP file exchange for nightly data feeds, supporting two million records per cycle with 99.98% success rate.
• Refactored legacy game-server code to TypeScript, decreasing bug reports by 23% and improving maintainability.

Bachelor of Engineering - Software Engineering and Information Technologies - University of Novi Sad (2008-10 - 2013-07)