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Hi, I’m Mirela Ekic—a freelance lead developer specializing in building data-intensive backends and AI-powered platforms. I love turning complex ideas into solid MVPs and production-ready systems for startups and scale-ups. My sweet spot is defining end-to-end architecture, ensuring seamless integration between React frontends and backend microservices, and setting up resilient CI/CD pipelines. I thrive on collaborating with teams remotely to deliver secure, scalable solutions.…Hi, I’m Mirela Ekic—a freelance lead developer specializing in building data-intensive backends and AI-powered platforms. I love turning complex ideas into solid MVPs and production-ready systems for startups and scale-ups. My sweet spot is defining end-to-end architecture, ensuring seamless integration between React frontends and backend microservices, and setting up resilient CI/CD pipelines. I thrive on collaborating with teams remotely to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

Mirela Ekic

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Mirela Ekic—a freelance lead developer specializing in building data-intensive backends and AI-powered platforms. I love turning complex ideas into solid MVPs and production-ready systems for startups and scale-ups. My sweet spot is defining end-to-end architecture, ensuring seamless integration between React frontends and backend microservices, and setting up resilient CI/CD pipelines. I thrive on collaborating with teams remotely to deliver secure, scalable solutions.…Hi, I’m Mirela Ekic—a freelance lead developer specializing in building data-intensive backends and AI-powered platforms. I love turning complex ideas into solid MVPs and production-ready systems for startups and scale-ups. My sweet spot is defining end-to-end architecture, ensuring seamless integration between React frontends and backend microservices, and setting up resilient CI/CD pipelines. I thrive on collaborating with teams remotely to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

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Hi, I’m Mirela Ekic—a freelance lead developer specializing in building data-intensive backends and AI-powered platforms. I love turning complex ideas into solid MVPs and production-ready systems for startups and scale-ups.

My sweet spot is defining end-to-end architecture, ensuring seamless integration between React frontends and backend microservices, and setting up resilient CI/CD pipelines. I thrive on collaborating with teams remotely to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

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Language

Croatian

Fluent

English

Fluent

German

Intermediate

Work Experience

Lead Developer at Freelance

August 1, 2024 - Present

Led development of a greenfield AI job search platform from zero to MVP; engineered high-performance backend services for data ingestion and normalization, implementing advanced ranking algorithms to process large-scale datasets efficiently; defined end-to-end system architecture, ensuring seamless integration between React frontends and complex backend microservices, prioritizing security and scalability; architected a robust CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions) integrating Playwright for end-to-end testing.

Senior Full Stack Developer at China Tai Network Services Pte Ltd

June 1, 2021 - Present

Architected a jurisdiction-aware rules engine that dynamically reconfigures the platform's backend logic, validation requirements, and investment workflows based on client regional regulatory profile; engineered an automated investor eligibility service for real-time compliance verification, significantly reducing manual legal overhead and accelerating onboarding lifecycle for institutional, accredited and qualified clients; created a flow of document execution integrated via a third-party integration (PandaDoc), automating generation, signing, and backend synchronization of institutional investment agreements.

Full Stack Developer at Freelance - Remote

November 1, 2020 - June 1, 2021

Designed and developed landing pages and responsive websites for early-stage startups and small businesses; built simple backend systems and forms to help clients capture leads and manage user data; handled hosting, domains, and basic integrations like Stripe for various client projects.