Two founding-engineer roles back to back, and the stack I reach for to ship products end to end.
Experience
Two founding-engineer roles, back to back
May 2026 to PresentRemote
Founding Engineer @ Friday4:30
Real-time crisis command platform for food & beverage brands: detect incidents early, coordinate response, and manage recalls before they become costly. In active development, approaching launch.
Building the product from zero as founding engineer, owning architecture, full-stack development, and infrastructure end to end.
Built the full application in Next.js and Node, backed by Supabase (Postgres, auth), deployed across Vercel and Railway.
Integrated Stripe for billing, Resend for transactional email, and Twilio for SMS and WhatsApp notifications: fast multi-channel alerting is the core value of a crisis platform.
EdTech / recruitment-tech platform helping international graduates land UK visa-sponsored roles, a spin-out of UK recruitment firm Capua.
Sole engineer behind the entire platform: architecture, full-stack development, infrastructure, and deployment end to end.
Built an AI-powered CV and cover-letter enhancer that analyzed and tailored candidate documents to target roles, integrating [CONFIRM: which LLM, OpenAI GPT or Claude] into the application flow.
Engineered a job-scraping and aggregation engine that collected and structured thousands of live roles across 30+ data points.
Built an auto-apply system that automated job submissions across varied external job sites.
Integrated Stripe for subscriptions and billing (checkout, webhook-driven subscription management).
Built the candidate product (personalized job feed, kanban application tracker with deadline reminders, search and filtering across the 30+ data-point database) and the internal side (LMS for Data Science and Consulting courses, mentor-candidate matching, admin dashboard for coaches).
Live, high-traffic consumer AI product (AI chat / companion app).
Worked across the frontend of a production Vue.js application, shipping feature improvements and bug fixes to a live product with real users.
Implemented UI refinements with designers; maintained and extended an existing Node.js and Vue codebase.
Stack: Vue.js, Node.js
Jun 2022 to Jul 2024Skopje, North Macedonia
Backend Developer @ Gamblify
Addiction Detection System: built a system to detect signs of gambling addiction from betting patterns, with a risk-scoring grading system that alerts at-risk users and surfaces supportive resources.
Data Handling Optimization: automated management of large volumes of protobuf files using Elastic File System (EFS), improving efficiency and scalability.
Hardware Integration: integrated a coin acceptor into gaming machines (software plus hardware).
Contributed to slot-game development and shipped Flutter front-end features.
Stack: [CONFIRM: Java + AWS/EFS, plus anything else]