Nenad Bubalo

Nenad Bubalo

+381 63 101 7284

+49 152 035 35 255

12439 Berlin
Berlin
Germany

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Employment

Data Engineer at Lingoda GmbH

Berlin, Germany

- Own architecture and delivery of the company-wide analytics warehouse on AWS + Redshift, serving Finance/FP&A, Marketing, and Product teams across B2B and B2C operations.
- Design and implement Python-based API ingestion pipelines with staged loading into Redshift, producing consistent schemas for downstream modeling and BI consumption.
- Main contributor to the dbt transformation layer — dimensional modeling, reusable macros, incremental models, tests, and lineage documentation.
- Define data contracts and quality guardrails: schema expectations, validation rules, and anomaly checks to protect stakeholder-facing dashboards.
- Migrated Spark/PySpark transformations into dbt + SQL, achieving 70% reduction in transformation runtime with improved auditability.
- Own observability for pipeline and warehouse health using Prometheus + Grafana: operational dashboards, alerting, and SLA monitoring.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for all data platform components with GitOps workflows for reproducible deployments.

Python SQL dbt Apache Airflow AWS Redshift Terraform Prometheus Grafana GitHub Actions

Junior Data Engineer at Lingoda GmbH

Berlin, Germany

- Supported migration of core data workloads from PostgreSQL to Amazon Redshift, improving scalability and analytics performance.
- Maintained and extended batch pipelines and Airflow orchestration, contributing to a standardized data platform foundation.
- Integrated multiple data sources via APIs and delivered cleaned datasets for reporting and analysis.
- Migrated CI pipelines from Concourse CI to GitHub Actions, improving deployment consistency and feedback loops.
- Helped introduce and adopt dbt practices for version-controlled, documented, and testable data transformations.

Python SQL dbt Apache Airflow AWS Redshift PostgreSQL GitHub Actions

Data Engineer at Dr.Max Srbija

Belgrade, Serbia

- Built and maintained Airflow workflows to extract and transform product and marketing data into analytics-ready datasets.
- Developed SQL/MySQL transformations to standardize reporting tables and improve data consistency across dashboards.
- Created and maintained Tableau dashboards translating business questions into clear KPIs for product and marketing stakeholders.
- Implemented data validation checks to improve reliability of scheduled refreshes and reduce manual reporting effort.

Apache Airflow MySQL SQL Tableau ETL

Research Development Engineering Intern at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade

Belgrade, Serbia

- Worked on wind tunnel experiments with real-time sensor data (air speed, pressure, force) for tested objects and prototypes.
- Built data processing workflows in Apache Spark / PySpark to transform and analyze experimental runs across time windows.
- Developed analysis and visualization notebooks using Python (Matplotlib, Seaborn) to validate experiments and communicate results.
- Documented experimental setups, data definitions, and analysis outputs to ensure reproducibility across test runs.

Python Spark / PySpark Matplotlib Seaborn

Data Warehouse Administrator at Flash Europe d.o.o

Belgrade, Serbia

- Designed and implemented the company's analytical data platform on PostgreSQL, consolidating sales, inventory, and finance domains.
- Developed Python ETL pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and normalization into standardized reporting tables.
- Built batch processing workflows with Linux cron and Luigi, modeling task dependencies for repeatable runs and controlled backfills.
- Implemented internal tooling using Django for data entry, cataloging, and governance workflows integrated with the PostgreSQL warehouse.

Python PostgreSQL SQL Luigi Django Linux ETL

Education

M.Sc in Information Technologies

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Belgrade, Serbia

Courses Available on Link
Thesis Title: "Real time analysis on data stream using Apache Spark” - GPA 9.45/10

B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering

The University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Belgrade, Serbia

Thesis Title: "Normal Forms and Normalization in contemporary databases"

Programming Skills

Data Engineering

Python  ·  SQL  ·  dbt  ·  Apache Airflow  ·  Spark / PySpark  ·  Pandas  ·  PostgreSQL  ·  Amazon Redshift  ·  MySQL

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (Redshift, S3, EC2, Lambda)  ·  Terraform  ·  Prometheus  ·  Grafana

DevOps & Tooling

Git  ·  GitHub Actions  ·  Linux / Bash  ·  Django

Certifications

AWS Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services
    Certificate

Coursera

Udemy

  • Python 3: Deep Dive I - IV
    Certificate
  • Complete SQL Bootcamp
    Certificate
  • Learn Python for Data Analysis and Visualization
    Certificate
  • Complete Python Bootcamp: Go from zero to hero in Python 3
    Certificate
  • Complete Database Course: 6 Courses in 1
    Certificate
  • MySQL PHP Database Essentials
    Certificate

Google Academy

Languages

  • Serbian: Native Language
  • English: Fluent
  • Italian: Intermediate Knowledge
  • German: Basic Knowledge

Hobbies

  • Hobby: Raspberry Pi & Arduino Projects
  • Sports: Basketball, Running, Bujinkan Ninjutsu - Japanese Martial Arts
  • Entertainment: Reading fictional novels & books