<ul><li>Delivered multiple software projects with high-class clients such as BMW AG, Motius GmbH, Driversnote ApS, VisionHealth GmbH, and IBM, among others.</li><li>Helped companies to develop or enhance clean, scalable, and robust software products.</li><li>Experienced as CTO; hired, led, and mentored a team of ten developers while acting as agile software project manager and lead developer.</li><li>Contributed to open source, and served as an active contributor on StackOverFlow (top 5% in Javascript and React-Native).</li><li>Conceptualized data strategies and drew inferences from data using statistics and machine learning techniques.</li></ul>

Software Engineer & Data Scientist

<ul><li>Acted as a lead instructor of public workshops and private company training for clients like DMTech, Innogy, Modis, and more.</li><li>Taught in various settings such as in private company training, public or remote workshops, via video courses, or at science festivals. Also spoke at technical conferences.</li><li>Regularly conducted interactive technology training for development teams and technology departments, with the goal of getting the team up-to-speed with React Native, React, Typescript, and other frontend technologies.</li><li>Designed the entire React Native curriculum and course contents which are highly interactive.</li><li>Spoke on topics ranging from artificial intelligence, technology and digitization, IT security to Chinese culture and language.</li><li>Clients: Workshops.de and General Assembly.</li></ul>

Technical Trainer & Keynote Speaker

<p>Smart Reporting is a digital health startup company based in Munich.</p><ul><li>Handled tasks including large-scale refactoring of a Typescript codebase, containerization of the entire app stack with Docker, integration of tools of modern web development in the React ecosystem (React Storybook, styled-components, etc.).</li><li>Managed the development of parsers, design and implementation of Natural Language Generation/Processing tools.</li></ul>

Senior Software Engineer & Machine Learning Expert

<p>Artirigo provides digital solutions in the arts and culture sector.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Acted as the head of the development team (10 people).</li><li>Functioned as full-stack web and mobile developer (mainly React Native, React (Redux), and Laravel).</li><li>Mentored and supervised colleagues and working students.</li><li>Led the integration and use of new technologies and frameworks.</li></ul>

Chief Technology Officer & Lead Full-stack Developer

Ethereum Smart Contract based Micro-Donation Platform

Hackathon Project: Ethereum Smart Contract

André Kovac

Built and used this app used at React Native workshops.

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Developed a mobile app to improve eating habits by penalizing mistakes.

AppADay/AppleOrDie

Created a react-native app demonstrating the use of redux-saga event channels with bluetooth signals.

Small React-Native demo of Redux-Saga Event Channels

Integrated the Helpscout Beacon into React Native app.

Helpscout Beacon

Authored a popular React Native bridging module.

React-Native Kontaktio

GitHub: Open Source Contributor

Shared thoughts about programming languages and frameworks, problems/questions that he finds interesting and useful commands.

This blog will soon be expanded to a collection of programming commands. It’s development open source and https://github.com/andrekovac/explain-programming/tree/main/content/blog

Personal Blog and Future Collection of Programming Commands

Gave a talk to explain the inner workings of the version control system Git. Regularly explained complicated topics related to software engineering and artificial intelligence to very diverse audiences.

Selection of further recorded talks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLViIPGtbd4QTaaY3zE4XIEBes9dzv2W7c

Speaker Who Explains Complex Topics in an Accessible Manner

Contributed to StackOverFlow, the world's largest online community for developers; belong to the top 5% of JavaScript and React Native developers worldwide.

Among Top 5% of JavaScript and React Native Developers Worldwide

English (British)

André Kovac is a software engineer, full-stack mobile and web developer, machine learning expert, technology trainer, and keynote speaker with over six years of industry experience. As a software engineer, he has delivered multiple software projects with high-class clients such as BMW AG, Motius GmbH, Driversnote ApS, VisionHealth GmbH, and IBM, among others. He contributes to open source, and is an active contributor on StackOverFlow (top 5% in Javascript and React-Native). As a technology trainer, he teaches in various settings such as in private company training, public or remote workshops, via video courses, or at science festivals. André also speaks at technical conferences.

André Kovac

Employment Highlights

Education Highlights

Portfolio

Hackathon Project: Ethereum Smart Contract

PhotoFavorite

AppADay/AppleOrDie

Small React-Native demo of Redux-Saga Event Channels

Helpscout Beacon

React-Native Kontaktio

Hackathon Project: Ethereum Smart Contract

PhotoFavorite

AppADay/AppleOrDie

Small React-Native demo of Redux-Saga Event Channels

Helpscout Beacon

React-Native Kontaktio