Milan Kovacevic

• Lead development of RESTful APIs using Laravel and OpenAPI for a high-traffic SaaS platform supporting auditions, submissions, and review workflows.
• Architect and maintain integrations with third-party services (payments, messaging, authentication, analytics) to enable secure, reliable data exchange.
• Modernize legacy UI by migrating Backbone.js components to Vue.js 3 with modular SCSS, improving performance, maintainability, and developer experience.
• Built WebSocket-based real-time notifications and status updates, reducing time-to-feedback for users from minutes to seconds and driving a measurable increase in completion rates for key workflows.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and automated test coverage (unit + UI) to enable safer, faster, and more frequent deployments.
• Enhance infrastructure with AWS and Laravel Cloud (queues, storage, media processing) to support high availability, observability, and scalability.
• Design and optimize data workflows and storage patterns for large-scale processing of media, messaging, and review data.
• Introduce and enforce security best practices and role-based access control across critical business flows.

• Own merge and release processes for production code across multiple engineering teams:
– Coordinate branch strategy, pull request reviews, and conflict resolution.
– Manage promotion of code across environments (local → staging → production).
– Plan and execute releases to minimize risk and downtime.

• Debug and resolve production issues end-to-end:
– Trace and fix failures across Laravel backend, Vue front-end, Horizon queues/jobs, and AWS services.
– Collaborate with product, support, and QA to prioritize incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventative fixes.
– Improve logging/monitoring to shorten time-to-detect and time-to-resolve.

• Backend API development using PHP laravel framework. • Data models creation and microservice architecture.
• Utilized Vue.js 3 and Vuex to inject interactivity for front-end SPA application
• Maintaining legacy code using Blade Template, JavaScript with jQuery framework.
• Used Python scripts for data processing tasks, automation, and integration with backend services

• Migrated and refactored features from a legacy PHP codebase to a modern stack using ES6, Node.js, TypeScript, Vue.js, and Sass.
• Built and maintained internal tools for customer support using PHP (Yii framework) and Vue.js.
• Integrated and maintained third-party services such as Adobe Tracking, Certona, SendGrid, PebblePost, and Facebook APIs.
• Championed code quality via mandatory code reviews and strong test coverage using Jest and related tooling.
• Developed and debugged Go microservices communicating with Elasticsearch, MySQL, and Apache Cassandra.
• Helped migrate development environments from VMware VMs to Docker, improving consistency and onboarding speed.
• Collaborated with design and marketing teams to deliver high-quality, responsive user experiences for a major e-commerce brand.

• Developed and maintained responsive front-end applications using Bootstrap, Backbone.js, LESS, Sass, HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js, and jQuery for multiple web-to-print e-commerce brands (simplytoimpress.com, photoaffections.com, mycustomcase.com, bestbuy.mycustomcase.com, clairebella.com).
• Led cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams to deliver scalable features, run sprints, and manage software releases.
• Built backend services and APIs using PHP (OOP), SOAP, and REST, supporting order processing, personalization, and account management.
• Engineered backend systems using PHP, MySQL, AJAX, JSON, XML, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB), and image-processing tools such as Gmagick.
• Integrated APIs for social login, analytics, and e-commerce functionality to improve user experience and marketing capabilities.
• Improved database structures for product catalogs and customer data, enhancing performance and maintainability.

• Developed small Java and C++ educational games for children.
• Built and repaired computer hardware for donation to schools and non-profit organizations.