§ Profile · ABSarajevo, BiH

Amar Bugarin

Product Engineer. Ministry of Programming, since 2022.

§ 01Summary

I'm a product-minded full-stack engineer. For more than four years I have shipped web products for startups and B2B teams, mostly in TypeScript, React, and Node. I stay with a feature from the problem through to production.

I have been at Ministry of Programming since January 2022. I started as a frontend intern, then worked as a software developer, and I am a product engineer now. The client work I spend the most time on is a confidential German B2B product in tax advisory and accounting: I build end-to-end features for the advisor and client portals, and I work AI-first with coding agents. I also own full-stack delivery for StartupPeople, a platform for startup founders and operators.

On the side I am building Delmat, a self-hostable orchestrator for coding agents, still in progress. WhatShePaid is a price-intelligence product for nail salons in New York, in a live pilot. Formbase is an open-source React editor for placing fields on a PDF and exporting a schema or a fillable AcroForm.

Ministry of Programming · Jan 2022 – present · product engineering.

§ 02Core skills
  • AI & Agentic
    • Coding agents
    • Cursor
    • LLM features
    • AI-assisted development
  • Backend
    • Node.js
    • NestJS
    • Spring Boot
    • Java
    • Python
    • Go
    • PostgreSQL
    • Supabase
  • Cloud & Infra
    • AWS
    • Lambda
    • API Gateway
    • Step Functions
    • S3
    • ECS
    • CloudFormation
    • Docker
    • Firebase
  • Quality & Delivery
    • Jest
    • Cypress
    • E2E testing
    • GitHub Actions
    • Sentry
  • Frontend
    • React
    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript
    • Tailwind
    • Styled Components
    • Storybook
§ 03Experience
  1. Jan 2022 – PresentSarajevo, BiH

    Ministry of Programming

    Product Engineer

    I joined in January 2022 as a frontend intern, then worked as a software developer. Product engineer is the title I hold now. I deliver client products end to end, and I work with founders on scope, priorities, and what actually ships.

    1. German B2B platform

      2024 – present

      A confidential client in tax advisory and accounting. I own features for the advisor and client portals from the spec through production, and I work AI-first with coding agents.

    2. StartupPeople

      Dec 2023 – present

      Full-stack delivery on a Next.js and Supabase platform for startup founders and operators. I work with the founder on product direction.

    3. PAKT

      Client project

      An AI-powered impact news platform. I built a responsive Next.js frontend for mobile and desktop, and a serverless Python pipeline on AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, S3, API Gateway) that checks, formats, and publishes stories, using ChatGPT to summarise and categorise them. Infrastructure is CloudFormation, and I led a planned backend migration.

    4. Port Royal

      Client project

      A gamified bug-bounty platform. I took part in design, set up a scalable frontend with a custom webpack build, wrote a component style guide, and shipped a multi-step onboarding flow covering KYC, payments, and gamification on mobile and desktop.

    5. Heartbeat

      Client project

      A meeting-intelligence product. I shipped features end to end in React and Node, and designed the schema for sentiment on meeting notes and for tracking action items.

  2. Jan–Apr 2022Sarajevo, BiH

    Ministry of Programming

    Frontend Developer Intern

    Four months on the same team: user research, a Figma interface, and a React frontend with end-to-end tests.

§ 04Side projects

  1. Delmat

    In progress

    A self-hostable orchestrator for coding agents. Still in progress.

  2. WhatShePaid (opens in a new tab)

    Live pilot

    A price-intelligence product for nail salons in New York. Listed prices and what customers report stay separate.

  3. Formbase (opens in a new tab)

    Open source

    A React editor for placing fields on a PDF and exporting a JSON schema or a fillable AcroForm.