Martina Šimičić
Software Engineer at Distribusion Technologies
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMartina Šimičić is a pragmatic software engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in backend development and Ruby while also exploring Go, Node.js, and Python. She blends a strong commitment to clean, sustainable code with customer-focused delivery and hands-on automated testing and CI/CD practices. Martina has led and mentored teams across startups and scale-ups—driving payments, event streaming, and climate-impact products—and has experience hiring and growing engineering culture. Technically fluent with PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka and AWS/GCP, she moves between individual contributor work and people leadership without losing sight of product impact. Her open-source contributions include improving test coverage and error handling for the Growstuff project, reflecting a practical focus on reliability and data integrity. Based in Gelderland, she pairs a master’s in Information and Software Engineering with a track record of shipping production systems that balance pragmatism and long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information and Software Engineering, Master Information and Software Engineering at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u Zagrebuexchange study program (5 months) Computer Science, exchange study program (5 months) Computer Science at University of Maribor (Technical College)
English, Croatian, Serbian, Dutch
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Github Skills (11)
rspec10
garden10
rails10
f10
ruby-on-rails10
activerecord6
sql6
postgresql6
database6
ruby6
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Growstuff/growstuff
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Open data project for small-scale food growers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Martina's contributions primarily involve backend code modifications and improvements to testing practices. They added and refined specifications for existing features, focusing on garden and planting functionality. They also implemented more specific error handling in controller tests. Their work centers around improving the application's test coverage and ensuring the proper functioning of core features.
gardeningpythonfoodscaleopen-data
simicic/adventOfCode2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Advent of code 2022
Contributions:25 PRs, 12 pushes, 27 branches in 28 days
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