Nenad Kosovic
Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Redcare Pharmacy
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNenad Kosovic is a Senior Manager in Software Engineering based in Berlin with 11 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and scaling quality-driven engineering practices. He has a strong background in QA, SRE and CI/CD, having led engineering and QA organizations of up to 40 people and implemented SLA/KPI-driven processes across product and customer teams. A pragmatic manager, Nenad blends hands-on DevOps and backend contributions—improving CI for OpenTelemetry PHP and adding TLS/MQTT features to Redpanda’s connect stream-processing tooling—with strategic leadership in product delivery. He founded a consumer app that reached ~100k organic users and later built an AI Agents Framework to automate project and chat workflows, showing both entrepreneurial drive and practical AI adoption. Known for establishing Communities of Practice and rigorous QA disciplines, he helps teams move faster without sacrificing quality. Fluent in bridging technical details and stakeholder goals, he focuses on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Belgrade
Serbian, English, Japanese
Github Skills (21)
github-ci10
testing10
mqtt10
cicd10
mqttnet10
php10
go10
opentelemetry10
githubaction-workflow10
dockers9
docker9
golang9
stream-processing9
mtls8
libtls8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-php
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
The OpenTelemetry PHP Library
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 15 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Nenad focused on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. They added and configured PHP code style checks using php-cs-fixer, formatted the code, and integrated style checks into the Travis CI pipeline. Furthermore, the user improved the CI workflow by removing container cleanup steps and disabling XDebug to optimize build times.
opentelemetry-phpphptracingloggingotel
redpanda-data/connect
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nenad primarily contributed to the `redpanda-data/connect` repository by implementing features and making improvements to the system's functionality. Their work included adding and removing broker patterns, and integrating TLS configuration within the MQTT input and output components. They also introduced a new testing function for validating JSON file contents. Furthermore, the user refactored the code, changing the subscription method.
stream-processordata-streamstreamscqrsstream
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