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Domagoj PuljicDP

Domagoj Puljic

Python Engineer | FastAPI | Postgres | LLM APIs

€900/day
Zurich, CH
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Domagoj

5+ years as a production Python engineer. I've built the backend for IoT platforms handling real-time device data at scale, energy modeling tools, and high-traffic SaaS systems.

How I work:
Based in Zurich, working remotely across Europe. I engage directly with stakeholders, translate business goals into technical decisions, and take ownership from architecture to deployment. Fluent English, German B1.

Proven results:
Core engineer on an automated retail IoT platform processing real-time data from thousands of connected devices for enterprise clients
Cut $100k/year in licensing costs by migrating an API proxy from Apigee to FastAPI
Reduced incident resolution time by 30% through internal tooling and automation
Led containerization during a Django-monolith-to-microservices migration, improving release speed by 40%

What I deliver:
- Backend & APIs: High-performance services with FastAPI, Django, and Flask. REST API design, service integration, and system architecture for data-intensive distributed systems.
- Data & PostgreSQL: Schema design, query optimization, performance tuning. Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, Alembic migrations.
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, IAM), Docker containerization, CI/CD pipelines. I ship production-grade, deployable systems.
- Reliability: Automated testing (pytest), observability, production debugging. Clean code standards that keep systems maintainable after I hand them off.
- Additionally: JWT/OAuth authentication systems, Celery async processing, LLM integrations (Claude, Gemini) for AI-driven features.

Available immediately, for MVPs, scaling existing systems, migrations, or reinforcing your backend team.
  • German

    Conversational

  • Croatian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Zurich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Freelance
    Senior Software Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    July 2025 - Today (1 year)
    Zürich, Switzerland
    Designed and deployed FastAPI backends with PostgreSQL for client projects Integrated multi-provider LLM infrastructure (Gemini, Claude) with cost optimization Built AI-driven features including structured data extraction and intelligent matching Containerized services with Docker and CI/CD
    Built a modern website using Next.js for a general medical practice (Hausarztpraxis) in Switzerland
    FastAPI PostgreSQL Docker Back-End development Next.js
  • Eturnity AG
    Senior Python Engineer
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    November 2023 - June 2025 (1 year and 7 months)
    St Gallen, Switzerland
    Developed and maintained Django-based backend services with complex business logic for energy calculations and simulations Enhanced service integration and backend workflows involving AWS S3 Improved system observability and stability through rigorous root-cause analysis, significantly reducing incident resolution time for production services Built internal tooling that reduced incident resolution time by 30% Translated customer requirements into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business goals and system architecture
    AWS S3 Django Docker Git Back-End development
  • INTIS d.o.o
    Software Engineer
    INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
    August 2021 - November 2023 (2 years and 3 months)
    Zagreb, Croatia
    Supported architectural migration from Django monolith to microservices (FastAPI / Flask) Containerised services using Docker, improving deployment workflows and release speed by 40% Mentored junior developers and conducted code reviews to ensure high standards of code quality and maintainability Ensured the stability and maintainability of complex FastAPI services by enforcing clean code standards via uv, Ruff, and comprehensive type-hinting Improved database performance and test automation (PostgreSQL, pytest), reducing CI pipeline runtime by 30%
    Django FastAPI Docker flask Event-driven architecture

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Education

  • M.Sc. in
    University of Split, Faculty of Science
    2020
    M.Sc. in
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science
    University of Split, Faculty of Science
    2017
    B.Sc. in Computer Science

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