Dino Hamzić — Software Engineer
I'm an Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. With over 10 years of software development experience, I worked on dozens of projects for companies spanning from small local shops, Silicon Valley startups and scaleups, to established international companies. I speak fluent English, Italian and Bosnian.
Feel free to contact me for any type of enquiry at dino@subtlebits.com.
Skills:
- Proficient: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS (eg. styled-components)
- Familiar: Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, Node, PHP, Laravel, PostgreSQL
Work Experience:
Remote.com — Engineering Manager
Full-time, 2021 — Present
Engineering Manager (current role)
- Led and scaled multiple engineering teams, including building new teams from scratch. Over 2 years, I directly managed 8 Team Leads and oversaw more than 25 skip-level reports. These teams had diverse responsibilities, including developing our public-facing marketing website (Growth team), building internal developer and operations tooling (Knowledge Database team), and delivering customer-facing product initiatives (Market Insights, Product-Led Growth, and AI & Knowledge Management teams).
- Both as an Individual Contributor and a Manager, I interviewed over 200 candidates for roles including Frontend and Backend Engineers, Engineering Team Lead, Engineering Manager, and even Product Manager, playing a key role in scaling our engineering team from 15 to over 300 in less than 3 years. For more than a year, I served as the Hiring Manager and DRI for the Backend Elixir Engineer and Senior Backend Elixir Engineer pipelines, some of our most critical roles.
2023 — Present
Engineering Team Lead
- Led the Knowledge Database and Product-Led Growth teams, working on internal developer and operations tooling in the former, and customer-focused initiatives in the latter. In this role, I split my time equally between individual contributor work (hands-on development and code reviews) and management responsibilities (line management, mentoring, project planning and delegation, and guiding team and product direction).
- Managed and mentored 6 direct reports, including backend and frontend engineers of varying seniority. Responsibilities included providing regular feedback, writing performance reviews, guiding reports in their career progression, identifying opportunities outside of team-specific work, allocating engineering hours to those initiatives, and encouraging cross-team collaboration with adjacent teams or company-wide efforts.
2022 - 2022
Senior Frontend Engineer II
- Worked on the Billing and Payments teams to develop critical automation tools, enabling our Employer of Record Payroll team to transition from an almost entirely manual monthly payroll process to a nearly fully automated one. This initiative laid the foundation for the company achieving an average payroll accuracy of 99.X% in the following months and reduced the time required to run payroll for our clients from several hundred hours per month (spanning multiple internal Payroll Specialists) to just dozens.
- Worked on horizontal initiatives such as the company Design System, improving critical components with new functionality, UI and UX improvements, bug fixes, and increased testing coverage.
- Developed features and components using React, Next.js, styled-components, React Testing Library, and Cypress for end-to-end testing.
2021 - 2021
Toptal — Consultant & Senior Frontend Engineer
- Led the development of a component based React library consumed by a popular polling and voter research application.
- Refactored and extended several critical parts of the aforementioned application into a plugin based React architecture.
Contract, 2020 — 2021
Nebulab — Senior Frontend Engineer
- Collaborated on the complete rewrite of a popular eCommerce store with thousands of transactions per month into a modern React application based on Next.js.
- Led the rewrite of several critical parts of an eCommerce store with monthly recurring revenue in the seven digits using Vue.js.
- Contributed to several open source initiatives in support of Solidus, the popular Ruby eCommerce framework.
Full-time, 2019 — 2021
Symphony — Senior Frontend Engineer
- Collaborated on the development of a powerful data analysis application and custom charting library for a software suite used by companies such as Bose, Nissan, BMW, and Johnson & Johnson.
- Led the rewrite of the legacy eCommerce store of a well-funded Silicon Valley startup into a modern React application based on Next.js, drastically improving performance, loading times, and conversions.
- Wrote project proposals, budget reports, and estimates for new potential clients and partners.
- Actively participated in the screening and interview process for new developers.
Full-time, 2017 — 2019
Pickled Pepper — Consultant & Senior Frontend Engineer
- Worked on the creation of promotional websites using Next.js.
- Delivered SEO compliant solutions that achieved almost perfect scores in the most popular page speed ranking tools.
Contract, 2018 — 2018
Preezie — Consultant & Senior Frontend Engineer
- Worked on the development of an enterprise facing dashboard written in Angular.
- Developed an embeddable custom chat bot widget using React.
Contract, 2017 — 2018
East* — Full-stack Engineer *rebranded to Walter Code
- Led the development of custom web applications and APIs for several international clients and corporations.
- Directed and contributed to the development of dozens of WordPress projects spanning from promotional websites to fully-fledged eCommerce stores.
- Introduced new technologies and best practices in the company's development workflow.
- Managed deployments and server configurations for several clients.
- Mentored and onboarded new developers and interns.
Full-time, 2015 — 2017
Education:
Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
- Bachelor of Computer Science with Minor in Electrical Engineering.
2011 — 2015