Emir Ribic

Available for consulting

Engineering Leader & Software Engineer

15+ years building backend systems, infrastructure, and distributed systems. Currently running engineering at Kayse, an AI legal tech platform.

15+ years
15+ engineers led
20+ companies
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Go Python TypeScript AI/ML LLMs AWS GCP Terraform Kubernetes PostgreSQL Redis gRPC REST APIs Docker CI/CD

Education

M.Sc. Computer Science

International Burch University
2023–2025*

In progress.

B.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering

International Burch University
2010–2013

Work Experience

Director of Engineering

Kayse
Dec 2024 – Present

Running engineering for an AI-driven legal tech platform, with a team of 15+. I own architecture and technical standards, and I've been scaling both the infrastructure and the team as the product grows.

Leadership Go Python AWS Terraform AI/ML

Co-Founder & CTO

ByteBuds
Sep 2023 – Present

Co-founded a software agency. I set the architecture and engineering practices, and stay close to the products we build for clients.

Leadership Team Management Business Development

Head of Engineering

PolymerSearch
May 2020 – Nov 2024

Architected and scaled a platform that turns spreadsheets into interactive web apps. Managed a team of 7+ engineers and owned backend and infrastructure. The practices we put in place made deploys more frequent and the system more reliable.

Leadership Go TypeScript AWS Terraform PostgreSQL

Software Engineer

Shamaazi
Sep 2019 – May 2020

Migrated legacy systems to serverless and built Zak, a donation chatbot for charities.

Go AWS Lambda DynamoDB

Software Engineer

Claire Automotive Support
May 2017 – Aug 2019

Built SaaS for automotive aftersales workflows, used across European dealerships.

Go PostgreSQL Docker

Software Engineer

Zira ICT Solutions
Sep 2013 – May 2017

Built enterprise telecom systems and mentored junior developers.

Java Spring Oracle

Contract & Consulting

Freelance work for SaaS and AI startups. Mostly Go backends, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

GiveCard 2024

Backend refactoring for scalability.

Go AWS Terraform
Qopla 2022

Microservices architecture & CI/CD improvements.

Go AWS
Damudo 2019–2022

Monolith to microservices migration, Austrian tax compliance.

Go PostgreSQL Docker
Vibe 2020–2021

Third-party integrations via webhooks and CLI tools.

Go AWS
T-Mobile 2020–2021

B2B VoIP self-care portal backend.

Go OpenShift
AltiSales 2020

Data analytics tools for Outreach users.

Go Vue.js
Work&Co 2019

Reduced API load by 70% via webhooks.

Go
MavenCode 2018

SmartDeploy: SaaS for Kubernetes migration.

Go K8s GCP

Open Source

I maintain Sentry's official Go SDK, which handles error monitoring and observability, along with a handful of my own Go projects.

gorsk ★ 1.5k

Idiomatic Go RESTful starter kit. A project layout people copy for production Go APIs.

Go
glice ★ 300+

Go license and dependency checker.

Go
goch ★ 200+

Self-hosted live chat server in Go.

Go
twisk ★ 100+

Go RPC starter kit built with Twirp.

Go
More on GitHub @ribice

More Go tooling and examples: gorsk-gin, dt, msv, and others.

Go

Personal Projects

MojTim.ba 2025

Team management and organization platform

Go React Flutter Business Dev
Confello 2019

Tech conference aggregator with GitHub-based recommendations

Go Buffalo
Destination Rent a Car 2018

Complete rental booking platform with admin & payments

Java Spring Boot Angular
HQAndroid 2014

Led the portal and a team of 3 writers covering Android apps

WordPress
App.ba 2014

Led business planning & development for Klix.ba & OLX.ba mobile apps

IntTips 2012

Solo writer, 3,000+ daily readers at peak

WordPress

Languages

Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian Native
English Fluent
Turkish Conversational
Arabic & Dutch Basic

Hobbies

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Mountains

Most weekends I'm in the mountains, hiking and climbing. Sometimes as a guide, sometimes just with friends.

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Fitness

Every morning starts at the gym. It's the one habit I don't negotiate with.

🥊

Combat sports

Martial arts training. Good for staying in shape, and harder mentally than it looks.

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Reading

I try to get through two books a month, mostly non-fiction and tech.