vdabic
Frontend Developer
Frontend developer with 8+ years building production React and Next.js applications, design systems, and full-stack tooling. Most of my recent work is in Web3 — Solana wallets, DeFi dashboards, and tokenized markets — alongside an AI-driven medical imaging project. I work in monorepos end to end (architecture, testing, CI) and across remote teams from the US to Asia. Preferred stack: Next.js, TypeScript, tRPC, Tailwind CSS, Prisma.
Experience: 10 years
Yearly salary: $120,000
Hourly rate: $60
Nationality: 🇷🇸 Serbia
Residency: 🇷🇸 Serbia
Experience
Junior Researcher / Full-stack Developer
AI Institute of Serbia 2024 - 2025
Sole full-stack developer on a breast-cancer screening web app, built with government institutions and the Science & Technology Park as part of a multidisciplinary research team. Built the interface for searching and viewing patient records and mammography images, wired to ML models that flag suspected tumor regions for early detection. Implemented the full stack on the T3 Stack (Next.js, Prisma, tRPC), including integration with the AI prediction service.
Frontend Developer
Step Finance 2023 - 2026
Set up the Turborepo monorepo for the team's Next.js apps — shared TypeScript config, linting, React Testing Library, and a Storybook UI library that became the standard for new components. Built core features of the portfolio dashboard: STEP/Solana staking, aggregated DeFi position and token tracking, and NFT portfolio management. Worked full-stack on Remora Markets, a tokenized stock marketplace on Solana — built the trading dashboard, marketing site, and admin panel (Next.js, Node/Express) with auth, REST integrations, Jest tests, and Vercel deployments.
Frontend Developer
Solflare Wallet 2022 - 2023
Core member of the Solflare web team — made architecture decisions and built features for the main wallet. Set up linting, TypeScript, and testing across the Turborepo monorepo, with a focus on developer experience. Built NFT and wallet-provider features for Rise, a browser-extension wallet on Aptos. Shipped features for Solrise Finance (Solana fund management) and the Elli extension (Sui transactions), and shared React components with the React Native mobile team.
Frontend Developer (contractor)
UNDP 2022 - 2022
Built a responsive React/TypeScript app (Chakra UI) that visualizes Twitter data on selected topics, including custom Recharts visualizations beyond the default chart set.
Frontend Engineer
HTEC Group 2021 - 2022
Set up CI/CD for an Angular app — linting, unit and integration tests with Jest and angular-testing-library. Built reusable Angular/Material UI components for back-office tools. Developed and maintained a mobile app for a US client (React, Node, AWS backend).
JavaScript Consultant
Codecentric Serbia 2019 - 2021
Built frontend features for a large eBay product in a TypeScript/React micro-frontend monorepo, with cross-browser support down to Internet Explorer. Covered features with unit, integration (React Testing Library, Enzyme), and E2E (TestCafe) tests; ran CI/CD on Jenkins. Built an internal app (Firebase, Node, Material UI, Google Calendar API) for managing employee vacation, hardware, and sick-leave requests.
Web Developer
NS Web Development 2018 - 2019
Built a custom dynamic photo gallery in Vue.js. Customized a JavaScript datepicker for the Hijri (Islamic) calendar. Built a REST/GraphQL API for a startup using Node, Express, GraphQL, and MongoDB.
Skills
front-end
english