Milutin Pešikan

Lead Project Engineer

7+ years building web and mobile applications, 3+ years working with AI systems

Summary

Lead Project Engineer with 7+ years architecting and delivering web and mobile applications. Specialised in React, React Native and NestJS, and in AI features built on OpenAI, vector embeddings and semantic search. Led teams of up to 10 developers, delivered platforms serving millions of users, and owned end-to-end project lifecycles for enterprise clients. A Nuclear Physics and Biomedical Engineering background brings analytical rigour to complex system design.

Selected Projects

Travel Route Planning & Booking Platform2026 - Today

React Native · NestJS · GraphQL · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Stripe

Lead developer and architect. Three codebases behind one GraphQL API: per-date room inventory that cannot oversell, Stripe payments reconciled by webhook, a cached multi-currency rate layer, and the iOS and Android release pipeline through to store approval eleven weeks after the first commit.

Walk-In Queue & Mobile Ordering Platform2026 - Today

NestJS · Next.js · React Native · Socket.IO · Stripe Connect

Lead developer and architect. One API publishing OpenAPI with four clients generated from it, live queue updates over Socket.IO rooms scoped per role, paired thermal ticket printers, and an idempotent webhook ledger over Stripe Connect.

AI Legal Document Platform2025 - Today

React · Node.js · Express · OpenAI · Tesseract OCR · Firebase

Full-stack developer. OpenAI semantic keyword validation with confidence scoring, AI client extraction from retainer agreements, OCR with word-level bounding boxes for in-place highlighting, multi-role access control and automated billing.

Gambling Recovery Support App2024 - Today

Flutter · NestJS · React · Prisma · PostgreSQL

Lead backend developer. Rebuilt the API and data model under a live app: application-level encryption over special-category data that stays searchable through HMAC-derived tokens, migrated in place, plus the documentation for a third-party vendor security review.

AI Recruitment Platform2024 - Today

Next.js · NestJS · GraphQL · OpenAI · Vector search

Full-stack developer and AI pipeline architect. Multi-tenant SaaS with GPT natural-language candidate search translated into structured filters, vector embeddings for semantic matching, a conversational CV parser and real-time video interviews.

Campaign Management Platform2024 - Today

React · Vite · Apollo GraphQL · NestJS · Prisma

Sole developer. Designed, built and launched end to end for a major client in two months. Past 1,000 monthly users, profile-driven submissions with typed GraphQL operations, led by me through more than two years of release cycles.

AI Coaching Platform2023 - Today

React Native · NestJS · Next.js · GraphQL · OpenAI

Architect and full-stack developer. Staged OpenAI agent pipeline with real-time voice coaching, TTS and STT, and guardrails that block unsafe input and scrub personal data, over a mobile app, GraphQL API and dashboard with B2B and B2C tenancy.

Real-Time Sports Platform2023 - Today

NestJS · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Flutter · Next.js

Full-stack developer. Five interconnected apps on one API: a configuration-driven multi-sport scoring engine, real-time sync and push, league hierarchies over 30+ models, and typed clients generated from OpenAPI.

Also: a legacy SOAP, REST and SFTP integration hub for roadside recovery (2025-2026), and a multi-market news platform clustering articles on 1536-dimension embeddings (2020 - Today).