I am a published linguist, lexicographer, translator and English teacher accidentally lost in Java, who found herself just where she belongs while trying to find a way out; struggling with JavaScript&PHP mess!
My goal is to become a quality full-stack Java developer.
I currently work as a Java software engineer and Release and Incident Manager. My team maintains a monolith application in use in the Italian healthcare system. The project, based on Java, JSP, and Oracle DB, is written in an in-house, custom ORM. The app consists of multiple modules each of which can work on its own, yet only together do they make this web application fully functional. We use Eclipse, Oracle SQL Developer, VMWare, SVN; as well as SIP, Microsoft planner, Jira, and MS Teams.
What you'll find here is a summary of my IT journey.
β’ Profile: Multilingual full-stack Java & PHP web apps developer and software engineer with 10+ years of diverse CMS and content development experience, from teaching English, translation, interpreting, social media management, content management to graphic design and web development.
β’ Expertise: backend & frontend, website development, copywriting, proofreading, basics of SEO, contact linguistics, practical lexicography and dictionary making.
β’ Education: MA in English language and literature, BA in English language and literature (both from University of Novi Sad, Serbia), full-stack Java Certificate (from Vojvodina ICT Cluster), full-stack PHP Certificate from Belgrade ICEF.
β’ web apps development β’ backend programming β’ software engineering β’ software development β’ coding β’ DBMS
β’ content strategy β’ copywriting β’ copy editing β’ proofreading β’ digital marketing management β’ digital content strategy β’ content management systems (CMS) β’ SEO β’ social media management β’ community management
β’ team management β’ leadership
β’ Tech-savvy Linux enthusiast and a full-stack software engineer skilled in backend, frontend and databases, i.e. Java, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL, focusing on web apps development, who successfully combines her linguistic expertise with strong IT skills to produce highest quality code
β’ Worked on various websites in both English and Serbian, mostly freelance, in the field of copywriting and content management, content strategy and planning, for clients from around the world in fields as various as luxury real estate, health and medical tourism, ecology, fitness, house painting, arts, sports, etc.
β’ Started a career as an English teacher and translator, advanced to copywriting and social media management; along the way developed interest in IT and graphic design (to complement the CMS work) with a desire to fully switch to web apps development and become a professional software engineer who leads significant digital and IT projects in the internet-of-data world
β’ Java β’ web apps β’ Object-oriented programming β’ DB β’ Spring framework β’ Spring Boot β’ Maven β’ Hibernate β’ UML β’ HTML β’ CSS β’ JavaScript β’ React β’ PHP β’ CodeIgniter β’ Git β’ GitHub β’ SVN β’ Eclipse β’ Spring Tool Suite β’ IntelliJ β’ MySQL β’ PL/SQL β’ MySQL Workbench β’ Oracle DB β’ Oracle SQL Developer β’ Postman β’ Visual Studio Code β’ Linux Mint OS β’ Terminal β’ VMWare Player β’ REST APIs β’ JPA β’ AOP β’ JSON Web Token β’ OAuth2 β’ Jira β’ SIP β’ Microsoft Planner β’ MS Teams β’ WordPress β’ Elementor Block Builder β’ CMS
