Software Engineer & Team Lead
Imad Buljić is a software engineer, team lead, and researcher from Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose work focuses on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, backend performance, and reliable AI systems.
Imad Buljić is a software engineer, team lead, and researcher based in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He leads a full-stack delivery team at ENIT/NITES, where he works on workflow orchestration, system integration, and technical coordination in the energy distribution domain. He is completing an MSc at the University of Zenica, and is the author of peer-reviewed research published in IEEE conference proceedings (INFOTEH-JAHORINA, ICECER) and in the Journal of Communications, with further work presented at the 17th Days of BHAAAS in Sarajevo. His research and engineering work centres on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, backend performance, and reliable AI systems, measured through reproducible benchmarks rather than intuition. He writes about those topics publicly, mentors engineers, volunteers with the Bosnia & Herzegovina Futures Foundation, and photographs under @imads.art.
Leading engineering teams
Building products, mentoring people, and keeping delivery grounded.
Published contributions
Papers, conferences, and the technical rabbit holes behind them.
The work clusters into three areas. Each one has its own hub linking the articles, projects, and publications behind it.
Backend writing, projects, and research around APIs, transactions, web servers, caching, rate limiting, and production service design.
Notes and work around distributed systems, partitioning, event-driven architecture, outbox patterns, consistency, and scalable data systems.
Writing and projects around AI systems, embeddings, vectors, recommendation systems, route optimization, and software engineering workflows.
17th Days of BHAAAS (Sarajevo, 4–7 June 2026) · Jun 2026
Machine-learning-driven autoscaling for latency-sensitive services, targeting tail latency rather than average load: predicting demand ahead of the scaling lag so that p95 latency and SLO violations fall without over-provisioning.
17th Days of BHAAAS (Sarajevo, 4–7 June 2026) · Jun 2026
Applying multi-agent systems and AI-driven coordination to natural disaster forecasting and mitigation, using distributed agents to gather signals, model risk, and drive earlier preventive response.
Journal of Communications · Dec 2025
Performance comparison of browser-side cryptography in WebAssembly vs JavaScript (RSA, hybrid AES–RSA, and Ed25519 across multiple implementations), with Docker-isolated benchmarking and an open dataset/framework.
INFOTEH-JAHORINA 2025 (INFOTEH) · Mar 2025
Benchmarking Spring Boot, ASP.NET Core, Express.js, and Django under uniform Docker conditions (JMeter), comparing latency/throughput plus build & deployment time to guide backend framework selection.
Experimental benchmark for choosing distribution keys in Citus/PostgreSQL, balancing JOIN locality against data skew with reproducible synthetic and real-dataset pipelines.
Python · PostgreSQL · Citus · Docker · Benchmarking · Data Modeling
Spring Boot service for telecom number lifecycle management with Liquibase migrations, optimistic locking, audit history, and safe concurrent reservation.
Java · Spring Boot · PostgreSQL · Liquibase · Testcontainers · Docker
Full-stack tutoring platform with Spring Boot, React, MySQL, JWT sessions, role-aware workflows, assignments, uploads, WebSocket chat, and video-call signaling.
Java · Spring Boot · React · MySQL · WebSocket · Docker
Catalog search architecture where PostgreSQL stays the source of truth and Elasticsearch is updated asynchronously through a transactional outbox.
Java · Spring Boot · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · Flyway · Testcontainers
How to use retries properly and build resilience into your distributed systems with idempotency.
The 80/20 info for big scalable, distributed systems: everything you need to know about load balancers, horizontal scaling, queues, and request coalescing.
Using the summer to prepare for the next season of life. Preparing research papers, I have quite a few of them ready, and I am openly looking for collaborators. Also studying, learning, and trying to keep the momentum going.
Updated: Jul 2026
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