Marko Ilic, Software
Engineer

With 8 years of experience

I translate looseideas into productionsoftware

Marko Ilic
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My Experience

  1. 2025

    Senior Software Engineer

    Auvaria

    • Designed and developed a Python invoicing pipeline for AWS cloud reselling, saving CEO 25+ hours/month
    • Built AWS cloud reselling platform end to end with Python, Go and AWS integrations, used by 70+ clients
    • Joined AWS Billing Transfer beta; built and tested automations, delivering product feedback to Amazon
    • Constructed scalable and cost-effective AWS infrastructure for clients, reducing bill for each client on average by 15%
    • Helped 3 teams replace manual releases with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) which cut deploys from ~1 day to ~2h
    • Automated onboarding clients into an AWS Billing Transfer by automatically creating accounts and resources
    • Delivered client-specific RAG prototypes that showed business value of generative AI and supported presales efforts
    AWSPythonGoTerraformTerragruntGitHub ActionsRAGAgentic coding

  2. 2023

    Senior Software Engineer

    Great Agency Inc.

    • Led a team of 4 to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain feature-rich insurance platform on AWS
    • Reduced deployment time by 60% by caching dependencies in an in-house Docker image and deploying to AWS ECS
    • Led an effort to build a customer ACH intake form meeting PII standards via AWS KMS encryption and ACL
    • Planned, designed and led execution of a migration of all company documents to AWS S3 with lifecycle rules
    Team LeadershipSDLCCode ReviewCI/CDDockerAWS

  3. 2020

    Software Engineer

    Great Agency Inc.

    • Migrated production from AWS Elastic Beanstalk to AWS ECS
    • Automated deployments to AWS ECS with Docker, Terraform and GH Actions
    • Facilitated working on prospects by building a “comment thread” for posting comments and attaching files
    • Built interactive PostgreSQL data visualizations with sorting, filtering and chart export
    • Eliminated data losses with “save as you type” forms with request debouncing and backoff
    • Built a global “search as you type” search for quick access to all the data on the platform
    • Reduced data duplication by building a tool to merge duplicate entries of a client
    • Embedded PDF insurance forms into the platform so users don’t have to learn new UI in order to use them
    • Developed user-friendly forms validation by making the form give constructive error messages to the user
    Vue.jsTypeScriptPythonNode.jsPostgreSQLDockerTerraformGitHub ActionsAWS

  4. 2019

    Full-stack Engineer

    Zyrgon Network Group

    • Built and deployed landing pages on on-prem CentOS servers for Portuguese businesses
    • Built a WordPress plugin that serves an app for multi-step hotel booking
    • Integrated PayPal, cryptocurrency and ATM payment options
    • Built a reusable front-end calendar library with vanilla JS
    WordPressPHPLaravelMySQLJavaScriptjQueryLinuxGitHTMLCSS

  5. 2018

    Freelance Web Developer

    • Learned how to get clients
    • Worked on many websites with vanilla JS on front-end and PHP on back-end
    HTMLCSSJavaScriptPHPWordPressMySQL

MyCertifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (in progress)In Progress

Agentic Workflow

I've transitioned to agentic engineering because it lets me move faster while keeping a higher-level overview of the whole system, so I can zoom into any individual component when I have to. My workflow is built on mattpocock/skills.

My Skills

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Whether you have a product to build, a system to scale, or a role to fill, I'd be glad to hear about it. Reach out directly, or grab my CV for the full picture.