Ivan Senic
Co-Founder at Plainly
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolIvan Senic is a Co-Founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable back-end and data-driven systems, currently leading PlainlyVideos to automate large-scale personalized video generation for diverse industries. He previously contributed to DataStax’s Stargate project, improving developer-friendly access to Cassandra and enhancing Document API features and metrics, and has hands-on open-source experience in Quarkus caching internals. A former founder of Midiaid and an application performance engineer at NovaTec, he combines entrepreneurial product ownership with deep expertise in performance, monitoring and database design. Based in Belgrade, he pairs an MSc in Software Technology with a track record of shipping production systems that turn complex data into practical, automated outputs — and occasionally co-authors his bios with AI.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software Technology, MSc Software Technology at University of Applied Science, Stuttgart, GermanyBSc New Computing Technologies, BSc New Computing Technologies at College of Professional Studies of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia
English, German, Serbian
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Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
caching10
back-end-development10
java10
javas10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
database-design9
reactive-programming9
rest-api9
cql8
database-management8
cloud-native8
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
stargate/stargate
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
An open source data gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1456 reviews, 255 commits, 515 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ivan's commits primarily focus on implementing and improving features related to the Document API. They contributed to better status codes for missing tables, introduced Micrometer for metrics tracking, and added support for both `$or` and `$exists` operators in queries. The changes also involved modifications to the schema and data model, suggesting a focus on database design and backend logic within the project.
data-sourcecqlcassandragrpcdata-gateway
quarkusio/quarkus
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 25 days
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the caching functionality within the Quarkus framework, specifically focusing on the Caffeine cache implementation. Their work involved adding a `getIfPresent` method and associated tests, and fixing issues related to function signatures and null value handling. The commits also included modifications to the API and improvements to the test suite. This suggests a focus on enhancing the caching features and ensuring their correct operation.
kubernetesquarkusjavareactivecloud-native
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