Nikola Reljin
Senior Software Engineer at Dow Jones
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNikola Reljin is a Senior Software Engineer based in Princeton with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating web and cloud-native systems across media, academia, and healthcare. He currently architects next-generation editorial tools at Dow Jones, integrating PHP, Java, Python and React-based Gutenberg plugins while driving CI/CD and infrastructure Automation in AWS with Jenkins and Terraform. His background combines deep backend expertise (LAMP, .NET, Java) with DevOps, search systems (Solr), and medical imaging research from a PhD-era career, which informs a pragmatic, standards-driven approach to complex projects. Nikola also brings a practical IoT/automation and ML curiosity—he enjoys integrating code into daily life—which explains frequent cross-domain tooling and scripting work. Known for mentoring junior engineers and improving legacy systems, he repeatedly reduces complexity and increases performance through thoughtful refactoring and automation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Oracle Certified Associate, Database programming, Oracle Certified Associate, Database programming at ORACLE AcademyMS, Electrical Engineering; Telecommunications / Software Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering; Telecommunications / Software Engineering at University of Belgrade
English, Greek, Russian, Serbian
Github Skills (35)
gutenberg-blocks10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress-gutenberg9
wordpress9
autocomplete9
packagist9
composer8
api8
dotnet8
alpha-vantage8
stock-data7
windows7
graph7
react7
multi-line-string6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nikolareljin/ci-helpers
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 19 PRs, 165 pushes in 7 months
newscorp-ghfb/dj-wp-cms-handbook
Mar 2019 - Jun 2023
A new set of standards for WordPress at Dow Jones
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes in 4 years 3 months
wordpress
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