About me

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I work full-time as a Technical Consultant at GX Software—where I develop, build and implement GX Software products and support customers in improving and further developing them.

Previously, I've worked two years full-time as a Junior Software Engineer at Service2Fruit—where I was responsible for back-end development, testing, deployment and maintenance of the primary software projects.

As a software engineer, I prefer nothing more than translating functional requirements into secure, stable and infinitely scalable solutions. I'm convinced that good software makes the difference for every business—and I enjoy to combine my technical knowledge with my keen eye for detail to help build it.

When I'm not in front of my computer, I'm probably in the gym, squashing/playing tennis or in the city with friends.

Recent projects

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FreshMonitor

FreshMonitor translates the data from Service2Fruit to real-time market information.

Service2Fruit's Trading Platform

Online trading platform (B2B) for agricultural products.

VanillaHN

An open source simple Hacker News client, built using only plain (vanilla) JavaScript.

tonnygaric.com v2

Second major version of my personal website.

Hard skills

To be able to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on a large group of users, I think it's necessary to have a broad set of technical skills.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of techniques that I recently worked with.

Programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Scala
PHP
Go
SQL
Bash
AppleScript

Frameworks

Play Framework
Beego Framework
Bootstrap

APIs

Mollie Payments
Pusher
Google Maps
Google Analytics
MailChimp
Mailgun

Other

Git
Ebean (ORM)
GORM (ORM)
GitHub
JSON
GitLab
Sketch
Jekyll
NGINX

Markup languages

HTML
XML

Style sheet languages

CSS
Sass

Libraries

Play-Bootstrap
jQuery
Highcharts

Tools

Akka
Gulp
Codeception

IDEs

IntelliJ
Visual Studio Code
PhpStorm
GoLand
WebStorm

CMSs

Kirby
WordPress

Soft skills

Here are some things I'm good at.

Inquisitive

I'm a curious person and I enjoy to learn things—not only new technologies and programming languages, but also on the interpersonal level. I constantly strive to improve myself, and my team.

Versatile

I understand that goals of a company, competition and technical developments do not stand still. I think it's important to be able to quickly adapt to different teams, goal(s) or activities.

Enthusiastic

I believe you should make your passion your job. I'm really passionate about software development and I enjoy to take on new problems.

Communicative

I don't like it when SQL tells me that something is ambiguous. I realise the importance of good communication.

Team Player

I play well with others—whether it are stakeholders or developers. I believe that 1 plus 1 equals 3.

Creative

I love to draw connections between seeminlgy unrelated things. My creativity helps me to be able to quickly tackle problems and come up with adequate solutions.

Organised

In order to work efficiently, I believe it's important to be organised—from writing clean code, to documenting it.

Critical thinker

I think that it's necessary to be a critical thinker in order to make good software. I reason efficiently to useful truths and effective actions. From identifying your actors and their goals, to making architectural choices.