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Dejan Deskoski

CTO
Skopje

Summary

Experienced engineer with over 15 years in software development, team leadership, and project management. Maintains a focus on the convergence of product development, engineering, and business expansion, consistently delivering solutions within budget and on schedule. Exhibits an entrepreneurial spirit, a profound grasp of market trends, and a sharp awareness of growth opportunities.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
Languages

Work History

Co-Founder and CTO at Stellar Development | Tech Lead

Stellar Development
7 2019 - Current

Co-Founder at KasarnaHUB startup center

KasarnaHUB
12.2022 - Current

KasarnaHub is EU funded project, for which Stellar partnered with municpality of Ohrid.

President

InnoHub-Digital Transformation And Innovation Hub
08.2020 - 02.2024
  • Established during the Covid-19 crisis, Innohub introduced the first domestic telemedicine platform, MojLekar (mojlekar.org). This platform enabled direct interactions (via video and messaging) between patients and general practitioners, featuring medical tracking and alerts designed for COVID-19.
  • Demonstrating its commitment to social responsibility, Innohub launched the first domestic crowdfunding platform for civil organizations, Ecrowd (ecrowd.mk), in 2021.
  • Innohub secured funding of +100k EUR for these initiatives from supporters including the Australian Embassy, Czech Embassy, USAID, and Civica Mobilitas.

Team lead and Scrum master

ITS Software Center
01.2017 - 07.2019
  • Code contribution to vEPC (Evolved Packet Core) modules
  • Design and integration of SDN/NFV core components to provide the following services: VoLTE, VoWiFi, mobile data
  • Dimensioning and optimization to avoid backhaul congestion and reduce latency
  • Design of mission critical wireless communication systems with use cases in smart grids and public safety
  • Co-design of the 'Intelligent application platform for Energy'; Implementation and integration of following data pipeline components: Apache Karaf, Decanter, ActiveMQ, Camel, Kafka, Cassandra, ELK Stack, Eureka, Prometheus/Grafana
  • Developed custom ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) distribution using Apache ServiceMix as code base
  • Code contribution to several adapters/modules as OSGi bundles
  • Clusterization of services (Cellar) and replication of data
  • API co-design of the analytical module responsible for energy forecasts
  • Deployment on OpenStack environment using KVM and Docker containers
  • Continuous integration procedure execution (Jenkins)
  • Product documentation generation

Technologies and frameworks used:

JavaSE 8, OSGi, Spring Boot, Nodejs, Karaf, Cellar, ActiveMQ, Kafka, MariaDB, Cassandra, ELK Stack, Eureka, Prometheus/Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes

Software Developer

Freelance
09.2014 - 01.2017

Domains of responsibility:

  • API design for Restcomm video conferencing - Telestax Inc
  • Development of custom video platform for video service delivery - INFEL d.o.o
  • Web/mobile development - Eurothink.

Key achievements:

  • Mixing multimedia streams with features provided by the JSR 309
  • Media streaming control
    o Play/stream multimedia files and RTP sources
    o Record and store video files
    o Pause, resume play, channel switching
    o Screen share with all participants
    o Broadcast (Live streaming to large audience)
  • Handling adaptive bitrate of video streams
  • Web client for OTT(over-the-top tv)
  • Video platform for online streaming based on Wowza engine
  • Pilot for real-time transrate of MPEG4 channels
  • EPG (electronic program guide) web client

Technologies and frameworks used: JavaEE, JavaFX, JMH, Meteor, Nodejs, MongoDB, Orion.js, Bootstrap, Materializecss

R&D engineer

Laboratory of telecommunications Ljubljana
04.2013 - 09.2014

Domains of responsibility:

  • Web/mobile applications for network monitoring and QoE

Key achievements:

  • Web tool for On-Demand-Online tests for network monitoring: Frame Loss, Frame Delay , Throughput, Continuity
  • QoE (Quality of experience) client solution
  • Ethernet OAM gateway module
  • RUDP client on Node.js
  • Android VoIP app improvements (Komunikator) for Telekom Slovenia
  • Android app for video intercom

Technologies and frameworks used:

JSF, JPA, EJB, JDMK (SNMP library), JBoss, Nodejs

Software developer

TAB Systems
10.2012 - 04.2013

Domains of responsibility:

  • Smart home architecture development
  • Development of SIP application for video intercom
  • Debugging and maintenance of time and attendance system.

Key achievements:

  • Development of following modules for smart home software platform:

- administration module based on JSP

- controller module for hardware communication and control: lighting, shades, heating, surveillance and multimedia systems.

- Android client app

  • Implementation and support of various protocols for system intercommunication: TCP, UDP, KNX, Z-Wave, RS485, X10
  • Development of video intercom app

Technologies and frameworks used:

JavaEE, JSP, HTML, CSS

R&D engineer

Iskratel R&D
09.2011 - 09.2012

Domains of responsibility:

  • Research on cloud communication technologies
  • Design of RCS (Rich Communication Suite) platform as a pilot project for implementation IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) services on top of Iskratel's Compact Call Server
  • Code contribution for the newest services on Iskratel's CS.

Key achievements:

  • Design and deployment of entire RCS platform
  • Development of Android RCS terminal
  • Development and implementation of following services on Iskratel’s CS: presence service; service discovery
  • Product documentation generation

Software Developer

Visual cognitive systems laboratory, Faculty of computer and information science Ljubljana and Suplea d.o.o
08.2010 - 06.2011

Domains of responsibility:

  • Research on pattern recognition for visual systems
  • Product strategy and competitive analyses
  • Code contribution to specific software modules.

Key achievements:

  • Development and implementation of the computer vision algorithm 'Hierarchical Compositional Representations of Object Structure,' noted for being among the fastest algorithms that employ HTM.
  • Application development for street recognition with 98% accuracy

Electronic design and assembling

Panter Gaming (now part of Novomatic group)
07.2009 - 12.2009
  • Electronic design of control board for guidance of gaming roulettes (OrCad)
  • Assembling components.

Education

Master of Science - Intelligent Systems

Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Ljubljana, Slovenia

Skills

Software Design - Team Leadership - Business Development - Product Management

Technical Skills And Competences

Solid command of Java, Golang, C/C++, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Matlab/Simulink.

Other skills:

  • Frameworks: Spring Boot, JSF, Gin, VueJS
  • Virtualization: Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack
  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, GCP
  • Message brokers: ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka
  • Databases: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDb, Cassandra
  • Version control systems: Git, SVN


Expertize with following concepts: Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Computer Vision (OpenCV, OpenGL), Cognitive networks

Organisational Skills And Competences

Agreeable and constructive personality

Personal Information

  • Citizenship: Macedonian
  • Date of Birth: 10/28/1984

Timeline

Co-Founder at KasarnaHUB startup center

KasarnaHUB
12.2022 - Current

President

InnoHub-Digital Transformation And Innovation Hub
08.2020 - 02.2024

Team lead and Scrum master

ITS Software Center
01.2017 - 07.2019

Software Developer

Freelance
09.2014 - 01.2017

R&D engineer

Laboratory of telecommunications Ljubljana
04.2013 - 09.2014

Software developer

TAB Systems
10.2012 - 04.2013

R&D engineer

Iskratel R&D
09.2011 - 09.2012

Software Developer

Visual cognitive systems laboratory, Faculty of computer and information science Ljubljana and Suplea d.o.o
08.2010 - 06.2011

Electronic design and assembling

Panter Gaming (now part of Novomatic group)
07.2009 - 12.2009

Co-Founder and CTO at Stellar Development | Tech Lead

Stellar Development
7 2019 - Current

Master of Science - Intelligent Systems

Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Dejan DeskoskiCTO