# Ljubica B.

> Software Engineering Leadership. Mentorship. Process Innovation.

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ljubica

I’m a queer, third-culture, immigrant-born software engineer.

I thrive in enhancing self-advocacy in my teams, innovating processes for happier, healthier relationships between development teams, as well as with non-technical teams, and bolstering their success with an advantageous mentorship strategy designed to meet people where they're at and set them up so they can flourish.

I’m currently based in the Greater Detroit Area 💙

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Creative Market
Jan 2023 – Present
When presented with a complex problem, process, or existing system, I reduce the complexity in order to maximize the team's efficiency and the project effectiveness. I provide guidance, direction and help my colleagues build and produce better technical, holistic solutions.

- I identify deep-rooted, systemic issues within the stack and lead long-term initiatives to address them using a Legacy Code Investigation system I developed and ran a workshop for with my team. 
- I proactively identify issues and propose solutions with corresponding context/data, boosting project launch success by 120%
- I make pragmatic design decisions; identifying risks, trade-offs, and alternative solutions to be considered with the Risky Changes Assessment I developed, ensuring that current and future engineers understanding our decisions through clear documentation.
- I thoughtfully decompose functional and technical requirements into clean architectures and designs to support our ambitious product roadmap while maintaining clarity and understanding with non-technical stakeholders.
- I introduce improvements that help the entire company become more productive and ship higher quality work with regular tutorials on how I organize my workspace and how best to use our tools (ex. Notion, DataDog).
- I shape coding methodologies and best practices, documenting them and sharing with the team.
- I've built our mentorship program from the ground up, building out templates and workshopping with our team mentors for continuous improvement of our processes.

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Creative Market
Jan 2022 – Present

### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Creative Market
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Lead engineering efforts in teaming up with cross-departmental panels to hire Engineering Managers and the VPE
- Update codebase as needed to leverage more modern, performant, accessible code
- Expand the depth of documentation and fine-tuned the on-boarding process
- Collaborate with product and marketing teams, as well as other engineers to shape features and releases, including simplifying & expediting monthly feature flows
- Own the redesign and implementation of a customized Discourse community

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Dribbble
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Lead team growth initiatives; hiring 1 VPE, 2 Engineering Managers, 3 Senior BE Engineers, 1 FE Engineer, 4 FS/BE Engineers
- Tech Lead on several projects: (1) integration with Braintree to support a subscription model on the marketplace; increasing user engagement site-wide (2) updated checkout flow to support subscription credit refills within the subscription model on the marketplace
- Established a multi-directional mentoring and pair-programming culture
- Guided the team in update to the codebase to leverage more modern, performant, accessible code
- Expanded the depth of documentation and fine-tuned the on-boarding process; reduced onboarding from 3 weeks to 3 days
- Instituted a technical design document to allow for thorough, structured engineering project scope [find my technical design document template on Github]
- Confidently works with product owners through technical architecture patterns and best practice conventions catered to the scope and scale of a given project to craft a technical plan that's clear, concise, and modular which breaks down a problem, identifies risks, trims scope, and communicates requirements to the rest of the engineering team
- Expertise in debugging / monitoring tooling (DataDog, XDebug, etc.), routinely investigating performance, errors, network issues, etc. and directing the team to ship solutions
- Instigated a buddy system to ramp up new hires with ease and agility; ability and willingness to mentor all team members and pair on problems

### Co-Chair of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee @ C-4 Analytics, LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- The DE&I Committee aims:
    • To cultivate harmony and intrinsic belonging as a part of our company culture.
    • To build bridges, compassion, and understanding between all employees, leadership, and our community.
    • To celebrate the intersections of our diverse humanity, together.
    • To develop an active system of accountability that encompasses and ensures a safe and prosperous environment for all employees and leadership.
- Convene & moderate on a weekly basis to accelerate cross-company efforts to increase inclusivity, accountability, and belonging.
- Initialized productivity and communication tools : Monday and Slack
- Crafted a sustainable DE&I framework to encourage on-going company growth and development
- Coordinate with other Executives on the team on action items and committee initiatives
- Update internal communication and messaging on a weekly basis

### Full Stack Engineer & UI Designer @ C-4 Analytics, LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Remote
- Write and lead cross-department workshops:
    • HTML Semantics & Web Accessibility Standards
    • PORTS : Problem, Objective, Research, Testing, Solutions— Being Innovative in the Workplace
    • Basic HTML/CSS for Non-Developers
    • Basic Photoshop for Non-Designers
    • Advanced Photoshop for Designers
    • Introduction to Brackets
- Write modern, performant, accessible code for a diverse array of client and internal projects
- Daily projects utilizing a variety of tools, languages, & frameworks
    • HTML
    • CSS / Sass
    • Bootstrap / Bulma
    • JavaScript
    • jQuery
    • VueJS / AngularJS / ReactJS
    • PHP
    • APIs
    • Git/Github
    • CLI/Terminal
    • CMSs: DDC, CDK, Wordpress
    • Productivity: Agile, JIRA, Slack
- Improve effectiveness & impact of digital assets and spear-head solution-oriented projects to optimize the functionality of the team and client satisfaction.
- Communicate and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of designers, developers, account managers, clients, and copy writers on a daily basis
- Composed award-winning case studies resulting in winning multiple creative and digital marketing awards

### Web Director @ Judge Asset Management, LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
- Proposed and engineered secure login portal for firm's clients using
- Developed and maintained code for firm website; primarily using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and PHP on a Wordpress CMS
- Helped solidify a brand direction for firm to span across print, packaging, and web
- Wrote SEO enhanced content for the firm's various functions
- Re-designed outdated UI/UX and created a maintainable Wordpress template for future additions
- Created both digital and print marketing content based off previously established branding

### Operations Manager & In-Store Trainer @ LUSH FRESH HANDMADE COSMETICS North America
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Burlington, MA
- Develop career trajectory study plans and train sales associates & management team to further their goals
- Elevate store customer satisfaction and sales volume over the course of Q2 and Q3 (of 2016)
- Trained the visual merchandizing team on the implementation of visual store standards
- Manage and delegate tasks to appropriate associates, dependent on their training plan
- Handle all operational management duties (ordering, receiving, inventory management) as well as all hiring for the holiday season
- Implement visual merchandising standards in all departments for a variety of campaigns


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in International Relations and Affairs and English
Boston University

### Associate's Degree in Theatre/Theater
Oakland Community College

### High School in International Baccalaureate
Lambert S. Okma Campus of the International Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ljubicaberger

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Last updated: 2026-03-31