Nenad Ilić
Robotics Software Development Manager - R&D at Amazon
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNenad Ilić is a robotics and IoT software leader with 11 years of experience building end-to-end real-world systems—from embedded firmware and sensor-driven robotics to cloud-native IoT infrastructure and edge AI. Currently managing robotics R&D at Amazon in Berlin, he has led autonomous vehicle simulation, MLOps for distributed edge fleets, and production-grade IoT services at AWS, marrying biomechanics-inspired thinking with pragmatic engineering. He has repeatedly scaled teams and architectures across startups and telco, driving Kubernetes, Golang microservices, and Jetson-based edge inference projects. An active contributor to open-source tooling, his enhancements to the widely used openfaas faas-cli improved error handling and external registry authentication—small but impactful changes that ease real deployments. Known for coaching engineers and shaping product-roadmap decisions, he blends hands-on embedded expertise with distributed systems and developer-first tooling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. Mechatronics, Dipl.-Ing. Mechatronics at The Faculty of Engineering at Nis University
English, Serbian, German
Github Skills (8)
golang10
docker10
go10
dockers10
cli10
yaml9
testing8
build-automation8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/faas-cli
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Official CLI for OpenFaaS
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 30 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Nenad contributed to the `faas-cli` project by implementing crucial enhancements, including error handling and enabling non-zero exit codes for error conditions. They added unit tests and updated copyright notices. Furthermore, they added support for external Docker registry authentication via arguments and YAML configuration.
cliopenfaasfaas-clidockerfaas
nenadilic84/istio-example
Mar 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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