Iva Miholić
Developer at XTX Markets
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIva Miholić is a developer with 16 years of experience building robust backend systems and database drivers, currently working at XTX Markets in London. She has a strong open-source track record contributing to core Go projects—including the golang/go toolchain and golang/crypto—where she fixed critical bugs, added features like context support for database/sql, and improved SSH and cryptography components. Her work spans database engineering (notably enhancements to the go-mssqldb driver and multi-result-set handling), performance-focused backend code for TechEmpower benchmarks, and system tooling such as service management and gopsutil improvements for ARM. Early internships at Google and Facebook show a foundation in large-scale infrastructure, machine learning tooling, and C++/Python systems. Colleagues describe her as detail-oriented and pragmatic, able to navigate both low-level protocol issues and high-level service configuration across platforms. She combines deep Go expertise with practical DevOps sensibilities, often improving cross-platform reliability in subtle but impactful ways.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Srednja škola ZlatarBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Zagreb
English, German
Github Skills (38)
application-framework10
system-info10
debug10
benchmark10
performance-monitor10
mysql10
testing10
app-framework10
linux10
benchmarking10
sql-server10
database-driver10
go10
performance-analysis10
sql10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kardianos/service
Jan 2014 - Jun 2021
Run go programs as a service on major platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 reviews, 86 commits, 91 PRs in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Iva primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `service` package, which allows Go programs to run as system services. Their work included fixing Linux start and stop commands, refactoring code, and enabling systemd service support. They also focused on enhancing the API and making it more configurable, including support for working directories, chrooting, and providing more options for the service configuration. Furthermore, the user introduced more configuration parameters on systemd and enhanced the user experience on different operating systems.
golangas-a-serviceplatformsprograms
denisenkom/go-mssqldb
Nov 2016 - May 2022
Microsoft SQL server driver written in go language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 63 commits, 154 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Iva primarily contributed to the development of the Microsoft SQL Server driver in Go. Their work focused on implementing and refining the support for multiple result sets within the driver, including adding functionalities for `HasNextResultSet` and `NextResultSet`. They also implemented the `driver.Pinger` interface and addressed connection handling issues. The user's contributions involved modifications to core driver logic, test implementations, and error handling improvements.
golangsql-servermicrosoft-sql-serversqlgo
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