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Damir Palinic

@damirpalinic

Senior Backend Engineer at PDF Solutions who built a low-code integration platform now used for about 150 factory integrations.

Croatia

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What I'm looking for

I’m open to long-term B2B roles.

At PDF Solutions, I designed and built a low-code integration platform from scratch. Customers use it to create factory integrations without writing code, and about 150 integrations run on it today.

I lead six developers while staying hands-on with architecture, code reviews, and mentoring. I also run a fork of Apache Karavan with GitHub integration for branch-based editing and pull requests across environments.

Since 2014, I’ve worked through Digital Cat on long-term contracts inside client teams. At Myosotis, I built the backend from scratch and later led the six-person engineering team as CTO; earlier, I led teams and delivered backend and web products across streaming, airline retail, microfinance, and location-based services.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Tech Lead & Full-stack Engineer

Current

PDF Solutions

Jun 2022 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Designed and built a low-code integration platform from scratch, now used by about 150 customers. Leads 6 developers, owns architecture, and runs a fork of Apache Karavan with GitHub integration.

Java Quarkus Spring Boot Apache Camel Kafka Cassandra Elasticsearch Kubernetes React

Backend Engineer → Team Lead → CTO

Myosotis

Sep 2018 - Aug 2024 (5 years 11 months)

Built the backend from scratch and later led the engineering team of 6 as CTO. The platform went through several investment rounds.

Kotlin Spring Boot Kubernetes

Full-stack Engineer

eGate Solutions

Jun 2015 - Aug 2022 (7 years 2 months)

Seven years of continuous development across the backend and the airline-facing web frontend for an onboard retail platform used by 20+ airlines and rail operators.

Java Spring Framework Angular

Backend Engineer

Intenda Net

Dec 2017 - Jul 2018 (7 months)

Worked on taxi dispatch and in-vehicle systems as a backend engineer.

Development Team Lead

Rhapsody International

Jun 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 6 months)

Led a team of 2 on a new project, designed its architecture and built the media server applications for on-demand music streaming.

Senior Software Engineer

ReversingLabs

Oct 2013 - Feb 2015 (1 year 4 months)

Worked on threat detection and analysis as a senior software engineer.

Development Team Lead

Oradian

Jan 2013 - Jun 2014 (1 year 5 months)

Led a team of 7, designed the architecture and took the product from zero to a sellable release for a microfinance SaaS.

Development Team Lead

PayPal

Dec 2010 - Jan 2013 (2 years 1 month)

Led a team of 7 that refactored legacy REST services delivering offers, fuel prices, weather and cinema showtimes to mobile users across the USA. Migrated the full data store from MySQL to MongoDB.

REST MySQL MongoDB