Curriculum Vitae

Hrvoje Pavlović

Product Engineer · Full-Stack Developer

Zadar, Croatia · Remote-friendlyScroll

About

A short brief

I design and ship polished digital products — from immersive interfaces to reliable APIs. I care about clarity, performance, and the quiet details that make software feel inevitable.

Experience

Selected work

2022Present

Remote

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Studio North

Leading product engineering for client platforms across web and mobile. Partner closely with design to ship cohesive, high-performance experiences.

  • Shipped a design system used across 4 product surfaces
  • Cut median page load by 40% with caching and bundle discipline
  • Mentored 3 engineers on TypeScript, React, and testing craft
  • Owned release pipelines and zero-downtime deploys for two SaaS apps

20192022

Belgrade

Software Engineer

Horizon Labs

Built customer-facing dashboards and internal tooling for a B2B analytics platform serving mid-market teams.

  • Owned billing, seats, and onboarding end-to-end
  • Introduced visual regression testing and cut UI regressions by half
  • Migrated legacy jQuery views to React with gradual adoption

20172019

Novi Sad

Junior Developer

Pixel Forge

Delivered marketing sites and small product features for agencies and early-stage startups.

  • Built 20+ responsive landing pages with strong Lighthouse scores
  • Automated client CMS workflows with custom Node scripts

Projects

Things I've built

Atlas

Visit

A spatial knowledge base for research teams — maps, notes, and collaborative timelines in one calm workspace.

Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Mapbox

Pulse

Visit

Real-time ops monitor with calm alerting, role-aware dashboards, and quiet defaults that reduce noise.

React · Node.js · WebSockets · Redis

Ledger Lite

Personal finance tracker focused on monthly clarity — envelopes, forecasts, and exportable reports.

Expo · SQLite · TypeScript

Skills

Toolkit

Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, React Native

Backend

Node.js, SQLite, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, Auth & sessions, Docker

Craft

Product design, Performance, Accessibility, Design systems, DX

Education

Learning

B.Sc. · Computer Science

University of Belgrade

2013 — 2017

Software engineering, algorithms, and human–computer interaction.

Continuing education · Web Performance & Design Systems

Frontend Masters / Independently

2020 — Present

Ongoing practice in accessibility, motion design, and system architecture.

Contact

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