Summary
Tolic Msc is a Staff Software Engineer based in Melbourne with 20+ years of engineering experience and a proven track record building high-performing teams and large-scale SaaS platforms. He specializes in Ruby (Rails/Sinatra), AWS infrastructure, DevOps automation and pragmatic AI/ML integrations, frequently leading migrations and platform modernisations that serve millions of users. Tolic excels at turning complex requirements into scalable, elegant solutions while raising engineering standards through mentorship, TDD, and robust CI/CD practices. His recent roles span greenfield builds, cost-optimising data migrations (MongoDB to Postgres), and shifting batch systems to event-driven architectures using AWS EventBridge/Lambda. Colleagues rely on him to blend hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership, and he often surfaces non-obvious improvements like binding DB interactions to command/query objects to simplify risky migrations. He brings an applied-mathematics background and a track record of measurable performance and cost reductions across fintech, adtech, and consumer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer science at National University 'Ivan Franko' , Lviv
English, Ukrainian