Amir Cicak

Senior Software Engineer | Technical Lead | I build production systems from scratch | Energy, ML & EU-funded platforms

Greater Dublin

About

I build production systems from scratch. I've shipped platforms across EU-funded research, energy, fintech, healthcare, and logistics — for clients including EPRI, UPS, DHL, and European utilities. My architecture and implementation directly contributed to securing €2M in Horizon Europe funding. What I do: → Design and build production platforms end-to-end → Write the critical code myself — Python, TypeScript, C++, Java → Stand up infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure → Mentor teams and recruit engineers when needed Recent work: • AI-EFFECT (€5.5M Horizon 2020) — ML pipelines for energy grid anomaly prediction • RENEW Energy (€2M Horizon Europe) — Citizen engagement platform for renewable energy • ALLARMA (EPRI) — Power grid resilience visualization for US utilities Open to: Senior Engineer, Technical Lead, or Architect roles — anywhere I can build things that ship.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at Ikim ltd
    Mar 2020 - Jun 2026 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Project: Artificial Intelligence for Next Generation Energy, European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme Description ● The project won the first place among 123 other projects ● Please check ADIOS project here (1st place): https://i-nergy.eu/open-calls-winning-projects ● I worked on architecture, backend, frontend as well as database design. Project: Data Extraction and Filtering platform Description ● Leading team of developers working on a software for outputting weather prediction events based and load profiles, generators and other scientific data. Output of the software is used in an internally developed machine learning workflow engine to predict anomalies in energy grids across the United States.

  • Senior DevOps engineer at Dedalus
    Dec 2022 - May 2023 · 6 mos

  • Threadable.io ()
    • Principal Engineer
      Apr 2017 - Apr 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Project: Multiple projects over 3 years time Description ● Prepared numerous technical requirements documents and software design specifications ● Improved workflow by implementing proper deployment, branching, architecture, coding, and integration practices ● Coordinated projects, made detailed plans to accomplish goals, and directed the integration of development activities ● Mentored and upskilled teams in Kiev (Ukraine), Romania, including backend and frontend teams ● Responsible for hiring a team in Lvov (Ukraine), conducting technical interviews, and introducing them to the development process as well as mentoring them ● Led development of an application for US cities building/planning permissions searching and map visualization ● Was lead software architect for a B2B reporting application for a client and guided their backend and frontend team ● Did code reviews, database design, as well as backend coding and refactoring of frontend code ● Coded modules (backend, frontend, 3rd party APIs) for fintech client ● Developed a real-time user simulator for a bike renting application (web sockets, nodejs) ● Developed REST API for bike renting application in Php/Laravel ● Created a working prototype for skateboard speed controlling software in C++ ● Designed and coded backend library used by other developers for many company projects ● Setup infrastructure for continuous integration as well as wrote scripts for automatic integration/deployment

    • Software Engineering Manager
      Mar 2017 - Apr 2017 · 2 mos

      -Was engineering manager and lead software architect for B2B reporting application for our client and guided their backend and frontend team. Did code reviews, database design, as well as backend coding and refactoring of frontend code

  • Software Developer and R&D at FUTURE HEALTH WORKS LTD
    Apr 2019 - Aug 2019 · 5 mos

  • Lead Software Engineer at Xpreso
    Jan 2015 - Feb 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Project: Route optimization platform (UPS, DHL), R&D project for Fiware EU research programme Description ● Involved in the decision-making process for the main technologies, frameworks, and libraries to use in our projects. ● Discuss project specifications with management and present them to the engineering team. ● Help in the upskilling process by teaching developers best practices in software architecture, design, and implementation. ● Designed and coded route optimization and geocoding modules for a SAAS platform developed for UPS and DHL delivery companies. ● Led the development and coding of a route constructor application for estimating and comparing routes and distribution plans. ● Conducted research and development on self-optimizing maps for route optimization and prediction, and wrote visual representation code in Processing. ● Completed several projects for the EU Fiware program using technologies based on OAuth2, Hadoop, Flume, and MongoDB. ● Planned and set up a CI solution using Bamboo, as well as an automated deployment script generator and environment setup using Python, Docker, and Docker Compose.