Milan Kovačić
Chief Executive Officer at NovaLance
Zagreb Metropolitan Area Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolMilan Kovačić is a software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently serving as CEO of NovaLance in Zagreb. He blends hands-on expertise in React and .NET with DevOps and AI know-how to accelerate delivery—recently driving a 30% average reduction in build and deployment times through CI/CD optimization and a zero-downtime polyrepo-to-monorepo migration. Milan has a track record of introducing engineering standards at scale, from ESLint and automated license checks to SCA/DAST security tooling for compliance, and he regularly educates teams on microfrontends, monorepos, and developer productivity. Earlier roles include modernizing frontend practices and testing at Enghouse Interactive and building high-throughput scrapers and ecommerce systems as a freelancer, showing both product and tooling breadth. He’s active in the tech community since his Microsoft Student Partner days, combining entrepreneurial drive with practical engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Faculty of Organization and Informatics
English, Croatian
Github Skills (126)
tooling10
visual-studio-code-extension10
storybook10
testing10
microfrontend10
extensible10
microservices10
nx-workspace10
javascript10
yarn-workspaces10
single-spa10
monorepo10
cli10
angular10
router10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MilanKovacic/vite-plugin-externalize-dependencies
Aug 2023 - Jul 2024
This repository provides a Vite plugin that allows you to set dependencies as external during development. This is essential when using import maps, ensuring that dependencies are not bundled, but are instead managed and loaded externally.
Contributions:18 reviews, 64 PRs, 83 pushes in 11 months
MilanKovacic/nx
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Smart Monorepos · Fast CI
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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