Dragan Ivanović
Dragan Ivanović in a dark suit

Dragan Ivanović

Teaching Assistant at the School of Computing (RAF)

Electrical and computer engineering graduate and Master's student in Computer Engineering with extensive hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, virtualisation and computer networks. Focused on building scalable systems with Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes. Proven experience in mentoring students and maintaining lab environments at an organisational level.

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About

I am a Teaching Assistant at the School of Computing (RAF) in Belgrade and a Master’s student in Computer Engineering. I completed my Bachelor’s studies in 2026 in the Computer Communications module, with a GPA of 9.39 out of 10.

I work with VMware vSphere and Proxmox environments, Kubernetes clusters and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible. At the School, I prepare virtual lab environments and teach lab sessions in virtualisation, cloud infrastructure, routing, switching and network security.

Final thesis

“Design, Implementation and Evaluation of IT Infrastructure with Secure Access, Monitoring and Automation in a Resource-Constrained Environment”

Recognition

In the 2025/2026 academic year, final-year students of the Information Technology programme chose me as a member of the teaching staff who made a lasting impact on their studies.

Professional interests

  • Cloud architecture
  • DevOps and automation
  • Network security
  • Virtualisation systems

Experience

  1. October 2026 – present

    Teaching Assistant

    School of Computing (RAF)

    I teach lab sessions in the following courses:

    • Virtualised Network Systems
    • Cloud Infrastructure and Service Development
    • Data Centre Infrastructure
    • Switching Technologies
    • Routing Technologies
    • Interconnecting Networks
    • LAN Security
    • Cloud Computing Security

  2. October 2025 – October 2026

    Student Teaching Assistant

    School of Computing (RAF)

    • Taught lab sessions in Virtualised Network Systems and Cloud Infrastructure and Service Development for more than 100 students in total
    • Administration of Kubernetes clusters with resource isolation for students
    • Automated environment provisioning with Terraform and Ansible
    • Work with Proxmox VE (HA, live migrations) and Docker/Docker Compose
    • Configuration of load balancers (HAProxy) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

  3. August – September 2025

    Internship

    Office for IT and eGovernment

    • Deployment and administration of a VMware vSphere environment (ESXi hosts, vCenter)
    • Design of shared NFS storage for a cluster and implementation of a jump host for secure remote management
    • Work with Veeam Backup & Replication: integration of vSphere and Proxmox VE clusters, successfully tested recovery procedures
    • Virtual machine migrations between vSphere and Proxmox VE clusters using Veeam
    • Windows and Linux VM templates (Sysprep, VMware Customization Specifications) and automation with the PowerShell PowerCLI module

  4. August – November 2022

    Census Instructor

    2022 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings, Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

    • Delivered a five-day training for census takers and provided methodological support during fieldwork
    • Supervision of census takers and data quality control through a real-time performance monitoring web application
    • Management of IT equipment, census materials and documentation

Education

  1. since October 2026

    Master's studies, Computer Engineering

    School of Computing (RAF), Belgrade

  2. 2022 – 2026

    Bachelor's studies (240 ECTS), Computer Engineering

    School of Computing (RAF), Belgrade

    • Computer Communications module
    • Academic title: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Computing
    • GPA 9.39 / 10
    • Final thesis defended with the highest grade (10)

  3. September 2025

    VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage V8

    Ingram Micro d.o.o., student internship

    • ESXi and vCenter Server Appliance, NFS, iSCSI and VMFS datastores
    • vMotion and Storage vMotion, High Availability and DRS clusters, vSphere Lifecycle Manager

  4. July – August 2021

    EntrepreYouth

    AIESEC, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

    • Design thinking, HR, sales, finance, marketing, PR and presentation skills

  5. 2018 – 2022

    “Patrijarh Pavle” High School

    Natural sciences and mathematics programme, Belgrade

  6. February 2018

    coDEsign2018

    IT Academy

    • Simulation of DDoS attacks in a network, fundamentals of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

  7. until 2018

    “Nikola Tesla” Elementary School

    Belgrade

Skills

Virtualisation and cloud
VMware vSphere (ESXi, vCenter), Proxmox (VE, Datacenter Manager), AWS, GCP, OCI
Containers and orchestration
Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
Automation
Terraform, Ansible, cloud-init, GitHub Actions
Networking and security
Routing protocols, VPN, NAT, ACL, DNS, FHRP, IPv6, STP/RSTP, HAProxy
Backup
Veeam Backup & Replication, Proxmox Backup Server
Operating systems
Linux and Windows administration
Scripting
Bash, Python, PowerShell (PowerCLI)

Languages

Serbian
native
English
full professional proficiency
German
basic

Contact

Get in touch for collaboration or questions.

Location
Belgrade, Serbia