Ivan Šarić

Financial Crime (FinCrime) Department — high-scale systems safeguarding 70M+ customers.

• Government Authority Integrations: Lead technical integrations with global government authorities, including the Portugal and Greece Tax Authorities, ensuring full regulatory compliance across markets.
• Regulatory Scoping: Identified and removed redundant regulatory requirements during the PT integration, drastically streamlining the project's delivery timeline.
• Brazilian Banking Integration: Drove backend innovation for the Expansion team, orchestrating the full launch strategy and technical integration with the Brazilian banking system.
• External Communications Gateway: Took complete ownership of the re-architecture of this high-throughput service, implementing complex database sharding to ensure scalability and reliability at scale.
• Design and develop resilient Java microservices adhering strictly to Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

High-impact SEO team — top-of-market compensation in Croatia.

• Delivered cross-cutting technical solutions to improve search visibility and user acquisition at global scale.
• Engineered scalable backend services in Java while building and optimizing responsive frontend interfaces using TypeScript and React.

Independent consultancy delivering high-impact architecture for international clients.

• PwC Ezra (Public Sector Accounting): Led development of the Ezra platform for public sector accounting, applying Clean Architecture to strictly segregate core business logic from infrastructure volatility.
• Embark Medicare (Enterprise Modernization): Architected a cloud-native ecosystem on AWS Lambda and Step Functions to fully automate complex member enrollment workflows.
• TelTech Systems (Telephony & Identity): Designed the SIP-based 3-way calling bridge for TapeACall and developed virtual PBX systems for identity virtualization (SwitchUp).
• Garmin RAG Application: Designed a holistic athletic training application integrated with the Garmin developer program, leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for data-driven performance insights.
• Advocated for standardization of Remote Development Environments (RDEs) to improve security, scalability, and onboarding for distributed teams.

• Engineered and maintained critical microservices for high-volume message processing and billing using Java 11 and Spring Reactive.
• Contributed to automation and deployment workflows using Jenkins, Groovy scripts, and Docker containerization.
• Ensured transactional data integrity and near-perfect uptime for high-throughput distributed systems handling millions of transactions.

Top-of-market compensation in Croatia, bridging application development and infrastructure operations.

• Distrelec (E-Commerce): Provided technical leadership for a headless, AI-powered e-shop migration, facilitating a €365m corporate exit.
• AMAG Group (Automotive): Engineered complex database queries to support customer data grouping for parts management and leasing systems across the Swiss market.
• GitLab CI Optimization: Designed custom CI/CD pipelines to handle a 600 MB JAR artifact using custom Gradle plugins and distributed build caches to overcome standard system limits.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Docker; integrated multiple data stores (Oracle, HANA, Cassandra, SOLR) and messaging systems (RabbitMQ).

• Developed a CRM specialized for medical clinics using Java 8, the Eclipse Scout Framework, and PostgreSQL.
• Developed satellite microservices for automated email templating and authored extensive technical documentation to ensure system reliability.
• Mentored colleagues and led technical analysis for new features.

• Developed complex enterprise e-commerce platforms utilizing Java 8, SAP Hybris, Apache SOLR, and MSSQL/MySQL.
• Provided mentorship to junior developers, guiding them through the intricacies of enterprise cloud deployments and best practices.