# Elvin Kosova > Software Engineer at minimall.io Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/elvin TECHNICAL SKILLS Front End | JavaScript (ES5/ES6+), TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML5 Back End | JavaScript (ES5/ES6+), TypeScript, Python, Next.js, Node.js Data Storage | MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, GCD, GCS, AWS S3 Tools and Methodologies | Jest/Cypress, GitHub/Git, AWS EC2/S3, GCP GAE/GCD/GCS, Docker, REST API, Scrum, Agile ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ minimall.io Jan 2025 – Present | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Narrator Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area - Co-architected the second-generation front-end, establishing a scalable, maintainable, high-performance foundation that improved developer productivity and accelerated feature development. - Developed a reusable UI component library of primitives and essential shared components, ensuring a consistent design system and promoting high code reuse. - Integrated Storybook into the development workflow, ensuring all primitive components had `.stories` implementations for better documentation, visual testing, and team collaboration. - Implemented a robust data formatting library, enhancing data integrity and reducing redundancy in data transformations. - Led the development of AI chat components, enabling rich user experience through contextual data integration. - Tools and Methodologies | TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS/UI/Kit, Headless UI, TanStack Query, Zustand, Zod, React Hook Form, Storybook, Git Feature Workflow, Agile. ### Senior Software Engineer @ StyleSeat Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 - Mitigated a critical vendor payment issue that posed a potential disruption for nearly all platform vendors by collaborating with stakeholders, including Stripe support, to ensure platform compliance with Stripe's updated TOS and avoid payment disruptions. - Addressed technical debt in the new omnichannel message delivery flow by collaborating with the Data Team to define a robust and comprehensive data schema and by extensive refactoring of data ETL functions, enabling the Marketing Team to autonomously and rapidly modify communication templates independent of engineering teams and enhancing data insights for the Data Team. - Identified and resolved a performance bottleneck by optimizing the retrieval of configuration settings (switches) from the database, leading to a 99% reduction in related database load. - Maintained the company-wide front-end coding standards and led tech debt reduction efforts by creating pure reusable React UI components, keeping the business logic in React Hooks and Rematch Models, and modularizing generic modules as part of the tech debt task force. - Tools and Methodologies | Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Jest, Storybook, Django, Django REST Framework, DynamoDB, Stripe API, Docker, Scrum, Agile, Git Feature Workflow. ### Software Engineer @ StyleSeat Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States - Groomed, scoped, and spiked tickets, planned sprints, applied actions from sprint retrospectives, and conducted all other Scrum ceremonies as a team's Scrum Master. - Led the development and deployment of new backend endpoints, enabling direct credit card charges and simplifying vendor fee collection, resulting in expanded revenue sources and an improved user experience. - Collaborated closely with the Head of Product to overhaul our backend's dynamic pricing system, resulting in a +70% surge in weekly revenue from new client deliveries and an +82% increase in weekly revenue from smart pricing, highlighting the system's significant impact on our financial performance. - Enhanced the Marketing Insights architecture by developing and implementing new insight creation and retrieval processes, delivering valuable marketing tools and insights for platform vendors' daily use. - Tools and Methodologies | Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Jest, Storybook, Django, Django REST Framework, DynamoDB, Stripe API, Docker, Scrum, Agile, Git Feature Workflow. ### Ecommerce Consultant @ Mementia Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area - Collaborated with clients to capture and document their business needs. - Specified technical project requirements and transformed them into an actionable backlog of user stories and epics ready for project implementation. - Tools and Methodologies | Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Confluence. ### Web Integration Engineer @ CybEye, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles - Architected a common microservice framework for integrating corporate apps with the Facebook Messenger API. - Used the framework to develop six microservice chatbots for the in-house produced brand apps. - Tools and Methodologies | Python, GAE, GCS, GCD, AWS S3, Facebook Messenger Platform API. ### Founder & Software Engineer @ minimall.io Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Playa del Rey, California, USA - Developed a multi-tenant online shopping mall enabling single-click POS solution for Stripe merchants. - Developed front-end component styling framework in AngularJS adhering to the Google MD pattern. - Collaborated with Stripe technical support team to ensure complete Stripe and PCI compliance. - Tools and Methodologies | Python, JavaScript, AngularJS, GAE, GCD, Memcache, Task Queue, Material Design, Stripe API, Google Tag Manager API. ### Founder & Software Engineer @ MIRACLESTYLE Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Architected backend middleware framework to maximize code reuse, minimize time to ship new features, and enable in-code and runtime component configuration. - Designed backend authorization framework to enable in-code and runtime granular access control. - Tools and Methodologies | Python, JavaScript, AngularJS, GAE, GCD, GCS, Search API, Memcache, Images API, Task Queue, Material Design, Stripe API, PayPal API. ### Founder & Software Engineer @ SOUTHEAST UNION, LLC Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Developed a serverless cloud CMS with an integrated single sign-on authentication system, custom access control, and customizable UI templates (https://www.github.com/miraclestyle/mini-cms). - Tools and Methodologies | Python, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Datastore, Google Blobstore, Memcache, Google Images API. ## Education ### Full Stack Software Engineering Hack Reactor Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/elvinkosova - GitHub: https://github.com/miraclestyle --- Source: https://flows.cv/elvin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/elvin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22