I'm Filip Danić — a software developer with 12 years of experience in the industry, across service agencies, startups, and enterprise. Are you recruiting? Please, reach out to me via filip[at]danic.dev for inquiries. I am currently open to exploring new positions.
Work Experience
🍊 Amazon (2020—present)
For the past 5 years, I've been at Amazon, based out of Amsterdam. I'm a founding member and tech lead on an internal Finance systems for statutory compliance, audit response, and tax compliance for 2000+ incorporated entities, producing 1TB of data every few weeks. And yes, AI agents are disrupting this area, too!
My major accomplishments at Amazon, to date, were:
- PlutoBot: a multi-step, GenAI agent (Bedrock, LangChain, Athena) for financial analysis tasks across datasets of up to 200GB in size, through novel querying tools and ‘plan-analyze’ loops. Use-cases: finance review, summarization, reconciliation, and audit investigation. Also, designed a reasoning-trace and data lookup UI, recognized internally as the ‘best in class’ GFRC/SOX ITGC control. Reduced reporting review time by 40%, saving ~4,000 manual hours annually.
- Direct to Auditor (DtA): an end-to-end financial reporting pipeline, enabling Accounting teams to deliver data directly to ‘Big 4’ auditors and government bodies. Delivery is guarded by DQ validations, reconciliation checks, and user-defined rules. Saved 6,000 hr/yr of effort and ~1,000 billable hrs/yr in contractor costs.
- Report Onboarding IDE: Self-service SQL/Python authoring environment enabling Business/Data Engineers to build financial reports without engineering dependency. IDE abstracted away Glue, Alteryx, and Redshift SQL from users, letting them focus on the logic. Used by 7 cross-org teams, across Finance, Accounting, and Tax.
I also took on the role of Engineering Manager (or SDM, in Amazon-lingo) for two years. I led my 9-person team to deliver 4 Director-level goals, promoted 2 of my people, and got 2 summer interns placed as FTEs. I transitioned back to an IC position, with full support of my leadership, because I preferred being technical, and hands-on.
🌶️ SpiceFactory (2014—2020)
Prior to working at Amazon, I worked for 6 years at SpiceFactory, a product agency from Belgrade, Serbia. I had the pleasure of building products from scratch in the healthcare, and event management sectors. As well as leading a major transition of a physical access security product from on-premise, embedded, to a cloud-native platform.
Old Blogs
Where did the old blogs go? Don’t worry, all the content is safe, and sound. Quick links:
- The Software Lounge: The website has been fully archived here. The old domain links will continue to work, and redirect to this new location.
- Old Personal blog: I have deprecated the old blog, and style in favour of the new one. The old content has been preserved, and you can find all the articles via this index.