Director of Engineering
Dec 2024 – Present- Lead a team of 15 engineers building an AI legal tech platform; own architecture, technical direction and engineering standards.
- Introduced coding agents and agent loops into the development workflow.
Résumé · Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Emir Ribic
Go backend engineer & engineering consultant
15+ years building backend systems, cloud infrastructure and software products. Director of Engineering at Kayse and co-founder of ByteBuds. Available for scoped development, architecture and consulting engagements.
I take on hands-on development and architecture work alongside my engineering leadership role. Scope, personal involvement and schedule are agreed before an engagement starts.
Selected achievements
- Led a team of 15 engineers at Kayse, an AI legal tech platform.
- Architected PolymerSearch and led a team of 7+ engineers.
- Reduced API load by 70% for a Work&Co integration built in Go.
- Maintain Sentry’s official Go SDK and create open-source Go developer tools.
Work experience
Co-Founder & CTO
Sep 2023 – Present- Co-founded a software agency and established architecture and engineering practices for client products.
- Work across technical direction and delivery alongside my other engineering roles.
Head of Engineering
May 2020 – Nov 2024- Architected and scaled a platform that turns spreadsheets into interactive web apps; led 7+ engineers and owned the backend and infrastructure.
- Moved manually managed infrastructure into Terraform and added deployment notifications in Slack.
- Introduced engineering practices that supported more frequent deployments and improved reliability.
Software Engineer
Sep 2019 – May 2020- Migrated legacy services to AWS Lambda and DynamoDB; built Zak, a donation chatbot for charities, using Go.
Software Engineer
May 2017 – Aug 2019- Built automotive aftersales SaaS used across European dealerships, using Go, PostgreSQL and Docker.
Software Engineer
Sep 2013 – May 2017- Built enterprise telecom systems with Java, Spring and Oracle, and mentored junior developers.
Selected consulting engagements
GiveCard · 2024
Refactored a Go backend for scalability with AWS and Terraform.
Qopla · 2022
Improved microservices architecture and CI/CD delivery.
Work&Co · 2019
Built a Go webhook integration that reduced API load by 70%.
Damudo · 2019–2022
Worked on a monolith-to-microservices migration and Austrian tax requirements.
T-Mobile & Vibe · 2020–2021
Built a B2B VoIP portal backend and integrations with external services.
Open source
Sentry Go SDK
Maintain Sentry’s official SDK for error monitoring and observability in Go.
gorsk
Created an idiomatic Go REST API starter kit.
glice, goch & twisk
Go tools for dependency licensing, self-hosted chat and RPC services.
Education
M.Sc. Computer Science
International Burch University · Started 2023
B.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering
International Burch University · 2010–2013
Technical focus
Go, Python, TypeScript · AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker · PostgreSQL, Redis · REST, gRPC, webhooks · CI/CD, AI integrations
Languages
Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian (native), English (fluent), Turkish (conversational), Arabic and Dutch (basic)
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