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Adnan Muslija

Senior Engineer & Platform Lead · Sarajevo

Building distributed systems and the teams that ship them. Ten years of scale problems, solved.

Adnan Muslija

Platform Engineering

Designing systems that are observable, recoverable, and boring in production.

Distributed Systems

Kafka at 600k msg/s, IoT telemetry at 1M+ devices. Built for the failure modes.

Technical Leadership

Grew a team 3× in two months. OKR adoption, halved maintenance load.

Featured Work

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From Batch Jobs to Event-Driven: How We Cut a 24-Hour Data Lag to Sub-Second

How we replaced AWS Batch and Snowflake with a Kafka-based event platform for a connected HVAC product — eliminating a 24-hour data lag, reducing infrastructure costs, and building a shared SDK adopted across 15+ services.

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Hot Path, Cold Path: Designing a Telemetry Ingestion System for 1M+ Connected Devices

Architecture decisions behind the ingestion layer of a telemetry platform processing over a million HVAC devices — Kafka, TimescaleDB, hot and cold processing paths, and how we handled reliability at scale.

Work Experience

Tech Lead

Carrier - Digital

United States

2025-2025

Led the design of an IoT telemetry platform for 1M+ devices and introduced a distributed workflow SDK used across 20+ services; scaled team impact by improving observability and engineering practices.

IoT PostgreSQL Kafka MongoDB gRPC OpenTelemetry TypeScript Nest.js

Team Lead

Aula Education (CUEL)

United Kingdom

2025-2025

Drove Agile process improvements and OKR adoption, reducing maintenance load by 50%; established security risk registers, removing 80% of high-risk items in one quarter.

Mentorship Agile OKR Security Risk Management Team Leadership Team Growth Team Management

Senior Software Engineer

Aula Education

United Kingdom

2025-2025

Built APIs and full-stack features that improved student engagement by 50% for 40K+ users; mentored engineers and supported 3× team growth in 2 months.

AWS Lambda React Node.js TypeScript MongoDB Redis AWS SQS LTI

Senior DevOps Engineer

Aula Education

United Kingdom

2025-2025

Migrated production databases to a new cloud provider with zero downtime and developed monitoring tools that improved actionable alerts by 80%.

Terraform MongoDB Redis AWS Lambda CirlceCI

DevOps Engineer

Bluedrop Learning Networks

Canada

2025-2025

Automated infrastructure with Terraform and Kubernetes, migrated Kubernetes clusters to AWS EKS, and built CLI tooling for secure secrets management.

Kubernetes Node.js AWS EKS Terraform AWS Lambda RabbitMq AWS RDS AWS Secrets Manager Ansible

Software & DevOps Engineer

DynamicaSoft

Europe

2025-2025

Implemented serverless Node.js/MongoDB services, built blockchain APIs, and streamlined operations by optimizing message queues.

Node.js MongoDB AWS Lambda AWS SQS Fastlane React Native Docker Terraform Ansible CirlceCI

Software Engineer

Ankora Inc.

Europe

2025-2025

Developed a Java/Spring Boot microservices back-end, automated deployments with Jenkins, and built infrastructure pipelines for containerized services.

Java Spring Boot Jenkins Docker AWS Fastlane Ansible

DevOps Engineer

Atlantbh

Europe

2025-2025

Set up CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments for large-scale Java services; introduced containerization for legacy enterprise apps.

Ruby Ruby on Rails Jenkins Java PostgreSQL AWS VPC AWS EC2 Docker SaltStack

Studies

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Sarajevo

Core CS foundations: data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and databases; .

Algorithms Data Structures Operating Systems Databases Networking

M.S. in Software Engineering

Mälardalen University

Focus on advanced software engineering practices in applied industrial engineering, researching software complexity and resilience.

Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture Testing Microservices
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