Irfan Kahvedžić

FURTHER builds marketing & sales process automation tech for the Senior Living industry in the US. It provides powerful software products, such as web analytics, chat-bots, automated email & SMS marketing campaigns, contact management, and more - and has been wildly successful in this niche.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, test, monitor, and optimize new product features and functionalities
• Maintain established systems, automated test suite, and parts of the infrastructure
• Develop, advocate for, and build consensus on, coding best practices
• Re-architect existing systems to take advantage of new technologies

Maestral Solutions is a software consultancy with offices in Atlanta, Amsterdam, Sarajevo, and Mostar. It has over 200 employees, most of whom are software developers, testers, and designers.

Responsibilities:

• Guide and oversee running projects
• Set up the architecture, technology stack, and team structure for new projects
• Research technology and other trends that could affect the company

Led a cross-functional team counting 16 engineers, designers, and testers, working on multiple consumer-facing web apps for AT&T.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and empower team members to create high-quality software
• Design and maintain a software development pipeline to ensure the software is delivered on time and without defects
• Coordinate development with multiple 3rd party development teams

Worked on a range of different apps and with various exciting technologies.

Notable achievements:

• Developed multiple apps for a custom vehicle infotainment system
• Implemented a custom-designed UI component library
• Wrote a Python-based car emulator to replace physical vehicles during infotainment software development & testing

Worked on a few small-scale software development projects.

Notable achievements:

• Wrote real-time error-correcting software for an OCR system used during live sporting events to read scores from a physical scoreboard and relay them to a TV station.

Created and operated scripted 3D animations for live TV shows (sporting events, lottery draws, beauty pageants, etc.), which aired on a national TV station in Bosnia.

Created graphic assets using Blender and Photoshop and scripted animations using C# combined with a specialty 3D engine called Ventuz.