Mihovil Rister
Principal Architect Team Lead at A+E Networks
Croatia
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Top SchoolMihovil Rister is a Principal Architect and team lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack web and enterprise systems, specializing in JavaScript/Node.js, Java/Java EE, and legacy IBM Lotus Notes/Domino platforms. He combines deep engineering craft with architecture and automation expertise—most recently creating testing and KPI automation pipelines for OTT/mobile/Web video streaming at A+E Networks. As founder of a boutique software agency and a contractor across health, telecom, and open-source projects, he balances product delivery, team mentorship, and capacity planning. Mihovil is equally comfortable coding core services and designing resilient microservice and cloud architectures, and he keeps one foot in research and developer tooling (e.g., Clinic.js ecosystem) to stay current. Practical, curious, and process-minded, he pairs technical leadership with a continual focus on learning and measurable operational outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate study IT Management, Postgraduate study IT Management at Faculty of Economics and Bussiness, university of Zagrebelectronics tehnician electrical engineering, electronics tehnician electrical engineering at Srednja skola Isidor Kršnjavimag.ing Electrical engineering computer systems and comunications, mag.ing Electrical engineering computer systems and comunications at Sveučilište 'Josipa Jurja Strossmayera' u Osijeku
English, Croatian, Spanish
Github Skills (143)
testing10
test-framework10
automation10
node-cache10
appium10
javascript10
test-automation-framework10
webdriver10
browser10
devtools10
mobile-automation10
test-automation10
icecream10
cucumber10
typescript10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dial-once/node-phone-utils
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
A well documented and test rich Node.js library for parsing, validating, formatting phone numbers and doing HLR lookups of phone numbers via specific or custom HLR lookup providers.
Contributions:3 releases, 80 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 4 months
netsuitephone-numbersparserphone-formattingvalidating
dial-once/node-file-management
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Simple file management via a provider like S3
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
providerfile-managementfilemanagergridfsfilesystem
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