Mladen Čikara
Senior Software Engineer at Toptal
City of Velika Gorica, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolMladen Čikara is a senior software engineer with over 12 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable Java-based enterprise systems, especially for financial institutions and bespoke CRM solutions. He combines deep domain understanding with pragmatic technology choices across Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL and AWS to build reliable, maintainable back-end services. He has balanced in-house roles at firms like Liferay and in2 with independent work as the founder of VG Soft and a freelance developer on Toptal, demonstrating both team and client-facing delivery skills. Based in Velika Gorica, Croatia, he brings a systems-first mindset rooted in Linux and practical DevOps practices, and he consistently seeks to match architecture to business needs rather than defaulting to trendy tools.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DSM, Diploma Study in management, DSM, Diploma Study in management at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuHigh School, High School at Gimnazija Velika Gorica
English, Croatian
Stackoverflow
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2questions
Github Skills (12)
spring-security6
apache-camel6
azure-active-directory6
office3656
atom-editor5
migrate3
development-environment2
clojure2
swagger1
luminus1
openapi1
clojurescript1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
McNullty/vaadin-7-cookbook
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:98 commits in 1 month
McNullty/spring-hal-browser-learning-test
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:41 pushes, 24 branches, 1 tag in 8 months
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