Zvonimir Vanjak

Expert C/C++ and C# .NET developer, experienced software development manager and IT
consultant
Croatia
Information Technology and Services
Current 1. Quantum Soft d.o.o.,
2. FER
Previous1. Robotic VISION Technologies,
2. Global Zone,
3. Infigo IS
Education
1. University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu
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Summary
An expert C/C++ and C# .NET developer, experienced software development manager and IT
consultant, with 19 years of professional experience in diverse set of industries including
higher education, safety inspections of nuclear power plants, intelligent transport solutions,
video surveillance, enterprise staffing industry, fraud monitoring in banks and robotic
machine vision.
Now specialized in providing various consulting services in IT, with focus on assessment of
design and architecture of software solutions and improvement of software process practices
in the industry, with occasional development role on the complex software development
projects.
Has great leadership and management capabilities, acquired exclusively through practice of
forming and growing a team of young talented developers during five years in Telegra, that in
the end delivered on time and budget great ITS solutions all over the world. His leadership
style is based on uncompromising professional honesty and integrity, with transparency and
openness as fundamental management traits.
Thanks to his 19 years (and counting) of experience working as a lecturer at the best IT
faculty in Croatia, has an extensive network of contacts and connections with the best IT
talents in the country, enabling him to promptly fulfill need for any kind of IT expertise.
Experience
 CEO
Quantum Soft d.o.o.
September 2014 – Present (3 years 2 months)

Founder and CEO of Quantum Soft d.o.o. Working on different projects in IT industry.


Lecturer in Object-oriented Design
FER
February 2008 – Present (9 years 9 months)

As a sole person responsible for the subject with over one hundred students, gave lectures and
performed exams in subject Object design in M.Sc. study (4th and 5th year)

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 Lead Developer
Robotic VISION Technologies
September 2016 – August 2017 (1 year)

After a successful stint as a consultant, hired by RVT to lead development of RVT's

eVisionFactory software, Vision Guided Robot system that uses computer vision to enable
industrial robots to "see" their surroundings and changes in the environment and adjust to
them, significantly extending scope of applications for these robots in industry
 Lead Developer
Global Zone
April 2016 – December 2016 (9 months)

Developed from scratch Video Alarm Event Manager for Australian clients -client-server
system for fetching and showing video streams from a remote Network video recorder, in
order for security stuff to verify reported alarm. System is written in C++, with backend
server connecting to all relevant alarm inputs and notifying clients (implemented with MFC)
of all relevant alarms, enabling them to connect to remote NVR and playback video feed to
assess severity of alarm

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IT Consultant
Robotic VISION Technologies
April 2016 – August 2016 (5 months)

Hired as a consultant for RVT with the objective of assessing state of the design and
architecture of a 15-years old C++/Win32 codebase, and upgrading the codebase to work on
Windows 10

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Project Lead
Infigo IS
September 2015 – April 2016 (8 months)

Leading implementation and deployment of Infigos' Fraud Monitoring system for detecting
fraudulent transactions in banks. Based on Splunk platform, with almost real-time detection
capability of possibly fraudulent transactions, it was deployed to several banks in the region

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Team leader
Five Minutes
October 2014 – June 2015 (9 months)

Leading a software team of expert .NET web developers on an exciting and challenging
project for US clients in the domain of enterprise staffing software.
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Team leader
Telegra d.o.o.
February 2009 – October 2014 (5 years 9 months)

o In two years expanded topXview team from three to fifteen people, and led development of
new version of topXview Platform, Telegra’s premier SW product for Intelligent Traffic
Systems applications, based on C++/.NET/C#/WPF technology
o Initiated improvements in software development process, leading internal reorganization
and development of dedicated system for objectives realization planning and tracking
o Participated in strategic positioning of topXview Platform on ITS market, and preparations
for bids in dozens of international tenders

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Independent Contractor
HRID d.o.o.
May 2013 – May 2014 (1 year 1 month)

Overseeing and mentoring couple of senior year students, in collaboration with them designed
and built .NET WPF based application for creating 3D models for industrial piping systems,
with the main use case of defining measurement grids on these pipes for entering measured
data about pipe thickness. Also implemented different features for visualization and statistical
analysis of measured data

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Postdoc researcher and lecturer
FER
October 2006 – February 2009 (2 years 5 months)

Lecturing and teaching B.Sc. and M.Sc. students at FER, doing postdoc research and
providing consulting services in IT

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Lead Developer
INETEC - Institure for nuclear technology
May 2001 – July 2007 (6 years 3 months)

o As outside contractor participated from the beginning in the implementation of EddyOne

system for gathering, management and analysis of steam generator tube damage data in
nuclear power plants
o Personally implemented EddyOne Analysis application (over 200.000 LOC in C++, with
 MFC front-end) used for visualization of gathered data and its analyses
o Helped in forming and growing team that developed parts of the system for data acquisition
and management, which established EddyOne as a complete platform for efficient
management of the whole process of steam generator inspection in nuclear plants, used in
many parts of the world, from neighbor Slovenia to Brazil, Russia and China

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Graduate student and assistant
FER
January 1998 – September 2006 (8 years 9 months)
Working as assistant to profesor at Department for Applied Computing. Participating in
different projects with industry.
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Causes Zvonimir cares about:
 Civil Rights and Social Action
 Education
 Politics
 Science and Technology
Organizations
 ACM
Member
Starting April 2010
Languages
 English
Full professional proficiency
 Croatian
Native or bilingual proficiency
Honors & Awards
 Roberto Giannini award for best young lecturer
FER
October 2009

Award is given to best young lecturer (under 35 years of age) based on anonymous
questionnaires by students
 Bronze Plaque "Josip Loncar"
FER
November 1994

Award is given to best students in class

 Won a Bronze Medal at State Championship in Physics
May 1992
At a statewide championship in physics, organized for pupils at Croatia's secondary schools,
won a third place in junior year class.
Skills
 C++
 C#
 C
 Object Oriented Design
 Agile Project Management
 Software Development Methodologies
 Python
 .NET
 Agile
 OOAD
 C++/CLI
 Optimization
 Software Engineering
 OOP
 Design Patterns
 Software Development
 UML
 Programming
 Software Design
 Software Project Management
 MFC
 Agile Methodologies
 Web Applications
 XML
 SQL
 Web Services
 Web Development
 Visual Studio
 ASP.NET
 WPF
 Algorithms
 ASP.NET MVC
 Subversion
 Git
 .NET Framework
 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
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Education

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University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu
PhD, FER, Computer science
2002 – 2006
 Finishes graduate study with PhD thesis „Environment for Solving of Optimization
Problems“. As part of thesis, implemented basic framework for easy implementation of
different optimization algorithms, together with GUI front-end for simple application of
developed algorithms to optimization problems

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Sveuèilište u Zagrebu
dipl.ing., Physics
1996 – 2003

In 1997, started parallel study of Physics at PMF Zagreb (Prirodoslovno Matematički

Fakultet). Completed four years of study and reached senior year ("apsolvent") status, but
with 10 more exams to pass, it remained unfinished.

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University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu
M.Sc., FER, Computer science
1997 – 2001

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Sveuèilište u Zagrebu
B.Sc, FER, Computer science
1993 – 1997

Awarded with The Bronze Plaque "Josip Loncar" in 1994, given to best students in class.
 MIOC Zadar
1988 – 1993