About me

If you ever saw me on the street and thought I looked like a criminal, this is where I'll try to persuade you that I'm actually a very nice guy. A couple of facts about me and my professional life.

Rod

I plan, develop, document and maintain web applications. I suck at cooking but I'm great at software architectures and object oriented programming, most of the time in Java, PHP and JavaScript, relational databases, frameworks, creating standards-compliant web page layouts, writing technical papers, usually in English and Slovene, managing software projects and presenting ideas and solutions to colleagues, partners and clients. I swear.

I am a big fan of clarity and simplicity.

My work experience in web development goes back to 1999 and is currently being enriched at Parsek, where I work as a senior Java developer. Given Parsek's reputation, size, clients, feature at JavaOne, international presence and the price of their work stations, there isn't much I can say to make them look any better.

I hold a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Belgrade University's School of Electrical Engineering. I got my High School education in United States.

My main interests are the Semantic Web and development of software frameworks. I love the idea of sharing data on the web as easily as sharing documents. I also love trying to make software development cycles as short as possible.

You can talk to me in Slovene and English, as well as in my native Serbian (a.k.a. Croatian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, etc.). You can try to talk to me in German and be very disappointed soon afterwards.

As a native of Belgrade, the turbulent capital of Serbia, I know how to appreciate the peace and clean air in my present habitat under the Alps - Kamnik, a suburb of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, a beautiful little country you might have never heard of or you think you have but you're not sure if that wasn't Slovakia.

You can find me in a car on trzinska hitra cesta each morning, on my way to work, laughing at Budilka radio show, ignoring the traffic jam, contemplating about the wonders I might achieve that day.