Nikola Kovačević
Head Of Infrastructure at Opella
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolNikola Kovačević is a strategic technology leader and Head of Infrastructure with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across life sciences and supply chain domains. He has led large engineering organizations—managing a 50-person web application platform at Sanofi—and delivered high-throughput, enterprise-grade systems processing tens of millions of transactions daily for global users. Nikola combines architecture and delivery expertise, driving migrations (AWS to Snowflake), microservice and micro front-end adoption, and SRE practices that halved infrastructure costs and reduced change-failure rates. He has a track record scaling SaaS products to profitability, founding a Hungarian entity for Movilitas.Cloud and integrating complex systems like SAP and TraceLink. Based in Barcelona with a background in UX and multimedia design, he blends product-minded engineering with strong hiring and team-building instincts. He’s known for pragmatically turning architectural decisions into measurable operational gains while keeping a keen eye on developer experience and observability.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Education, User Experience and Interaction Design, Professional Education, User Experience and Interaction Design at IxDF - The Interaction Design FoundationBachelor of Engineering in Technical Graphics, Multimedia, Design and Application, Bachelor of Engineering in Technical Graphics, Multimedia, Design and Application at Polytechnic in VaraždinNatural and Mathematical Department, Natural and Mathematical Department, Natural and Mathematical Department, Natural and Mathematical Department at III. gymnasium Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia)
English, Croatian, Serbian, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
mochajs6
nodejs6
javascript6
sinon6
chai6
touchbar3
single-spa3
vue2
nestjs1
microfrontend1
nest1
redis-cache1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nikola-kovacevic/ngx-countdown
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
Countdown library for Angular
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
typescriptangular2countdownangular
nikola-kovacevic/chronos
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
Chronos - Simple state management
Contributions:10 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
reactstate-managementchronosreduxtypescript
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