Vladimir Mikulic
Full-stack Engineer (Remote) at Self-employed
Croatia
Summary
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RockstarVladimir Mikulic is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with 7 years’ experience and 5+ years building production web applications for commercial clients, including projects supporting organizations with $30M+ in sales. Based in Croatia and working remotely as a self-employed developer, he combines front-end UX polish with back-end reliability and has a track record of shrinking bundle sizes and fixing critical open-source bugs (including a BullMQ crash and a 62% SDK reduction). His open-source contributions span Rails apps and Leaflet extensions, improving form validation, image export, rotation handling, translations, and automated tests—work that surfaced in community channels like JavaScript Weekly. He also writes technical guides, having authored Linux tutorials that amassed over 200k views, showing an ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to users and developers alike.
7 years of coding experience
Croatian, English
Stackoverflow
151reputation
51kreached
5answers
3questions
Github Skills (24)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
leaflet10
es6-promise10
css10
rails10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
image-manipulation10
html10
ruby-on-rails10
translation9
translate9
localization9
localize9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 38 PRs, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience within the Rails application. Their contributions include fixing form overflows, implementing client-side form validation, and addressing issues with the image upload progress bar and comment preview functionality. Additionally, the user added system tests for login and signup form validations, and for comment and wiki page features. These changes improved the platform's usability and addressed existing bugs.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
publiclab/Leaflet.DistortableImage
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
A Leaflet extension to distort or "rubber sheet" images
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 15 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the Leaflet.DistortableImage library. They addressed issues related to image export, including removing loading spinners and ensuring correct promise handling. They also implemented methods for getting and setting image rotation angles. Furthermore, the user integrated custom translation functionality, allowing for the library to be translated into multiple languages.
leafletdistortsheetrubbergeotiff
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