Filip Defar

filip.defar@gmail.com
Zagreb, Croatia
Naserov Trg 4
http://dabrorius.github.io

Employment

Full-stack Rails developer - DirectVest

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript

  • Created a wrapper for Folio Institutional API.
  • Created a full test suite for existing features.
  • Refactored the application (From 1.5 to 3.9+ GPA on CodeClimate).
  • Created multistep forms for the investment process.
  • Created a dashboard that heavily relies on external APIs as well as low level caching for increased performance.
June 2015 - November 2015
Full-stack Rails developer - BizRevr

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch

  • Helping design and develop new features.
  • Created an interface for bulk editing records similar to excel spreadsheet.
April 2015 - June 2015
Full-stack Rails developer - ThinkCERCA

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript

I worked on a team with six other developers. My job consisted of maintaining, improving and adding new features to existing Rails, backbone.js and Ember.js code.

July 2014 - Februrary 2015
Full-stack Rails developer - CampWire

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript

  • I created a working payment system with Stripe.
  • I wrote a full test suite for the existing code.
  • Maintained and refactored existing code.
  • Introduced new developers to the application.
February 2013 - July 2014

Education

M.S. Computer Science - The University of Zagreb

2011 - 2013
B.S. Software Engineering - The University of Zagreb

2007 - 2011

Open Source

jobless (https://github.com/dabrorius/jobless)

A ruby DSL for generating CVs.

markov-noodles (https://github.com/dabrorius/markov-noodles)

Markov noodles is a minimalistic library for generating text using Markov chains.

grape (https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape)

I am a contributor to grape, an opinionated micro-framework for creating REST-like APIs in Ruby.

burek (https://github.com/dabrorius/burek)

A ruby/rails gem for managing translations easy way.

Other Experience

CatMe iOS App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id994659934)

CatMe is a simple native mobile app that allows you to virtually pet cats! Move your finger over a cat photo and you will hear it purr. It's free, ad-free and completely useless.

StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/users/735143/dabrorius)