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 6 years, I've been at Amazon, based out of Amsterdam.
📦 Senior Engineer @ AWS CodeDeploy (2026—Current)
These days, I'm working on AWS CodeDeploy, part of AWS's Develop Tools offering, and making sure it scales and adepts to the high velocity reality of AI-driven development. I've delivered:
- Fleet Restarts: CodeDeploy's first new feature in the past 5 years! Coupled with our new on-host, Rust-based agent, CodeDeploy is able to quickly restart fleets, both large and small, while respecting existing safety gates. My colleagues and I wrote an in-depth post on the AWS Blog covering this.
- Region Expansion: I led the General Availability launch of CodeDeploy in 5 additional regions, ensuring we're available in all AWS regions. I launched us in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). Learn more in the announcement post.
📈 Senior Engineer @ FinTech Audit Pipelines (2025)
I was 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 deliveries included:
- 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.
⛳️ Manager @ FinTech Report Central (2022-2024)
I led a 9-person engineering team, owning Report Central, an accounting and tax compliance reporting. We delivered 4 Director-level goals and grew the platforms usage by 100x over a 2-year period. I successfully managed 2 promotions and also got 2 summer interns placed as FTEs elsewhere in the company. And yes, I wrote a lot docs during that time.
I transitioned back to an IC position, with full support of my leadership, because I preferred being technical, and hands-on.
🛠️ Engineer @ FinTech Report Central (2020-2022)
I was an engineer on the Compliance Central (later Report Central) team. I primarily owned the report onboarding experience. I engineered and delivered the Report Onboarding Wizard, a self-service SQL/Python authoring environment that enabled Business Intelligence and Data Engineers to build financial reports without engineering dependency. This Wizard 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.
🌶️ SpiceFactory (2014—2020)
Prior to working at Amazon, I worked as a Software Developer, for 6 years, at SpiceFactory, a product agency from Belgrade, Serbia. I had the pleasure of building products from scratch in various industries: healthcare, event management, automotive, and even e-sports! But the most impressive technical challenge was leading a major transition of a physical access security product from an on-premise, embedded delivery to a cloud-native platform. This included a year-long rewrite of the entire jQuery codebase from 2008 to Google Closure Compiler and React components!
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.