Ivica Matic - Software Engineer #

Software Engineer currently working at Group Nexus, with a passion for engineering, DevOps, electronics, 3D printing, and amateur radio.

Backend Software Engineer @ Group Nexus #

Apr 2024 - Present

Creating, maintaining, securing, and optimizing API services that handle hundreds of live ANPR movements per second for various camera payloads and types, storing them for audit purposes and offloading to event-driven pipelines for further processing.
Reducing existing technical debt by identifying clear domain areas of the business and guiding refactoring efforts towards cleaner architecture.
Migrating existing system components to new CI/CD flows.
Writing technical documentation for new and existing processes.

May 2022 - Apr 2024

Directly involved in creating and deploying pipelines for generating custom earth-observation datasets from satellite and aerial photography.
Designing and building a workflow-like platform for custom EO workflows in collaboration with various EO experts and end users.
Designing and building event-driven architecture for ingesting millions of EO datasets and cataloguing them using the STAC format.
Mentored team members on CI/CD best practices and domain-driven design principles.

Worked on:

May 2020 - Apr 2022

Member of a Design Engineering team creating edge embedded solutions utilizing FPGAs for various use cases with customers ranging from agriculture to the mining industry.
Worked on embedded real-time projects using ROS, ROS2, and MQTT with Python and C++.
Developed computer vision embedded applications utilizing object detection neural networks on CPU, GPU, and FPGA platforms.
Trained image detection neural network models from scratch, labeling custom, problem-specific datasets.

Worked on:

2018 - 2021