Dragan Rusnov

About Me

With 23 years across healthcare, public safety, robotics, and fintech, I architect solutions and lead teams that ship — from real-time surgical navigation to autonomous robotics to HIPAA-compliant platforms. Today I run Paper Plane Consulting, a 25+ person consultancy delivering technical strategy and software development across industries.

Experience

Engineering Leader

Director-level leadership across global teams, org transformation, hiring, retention, and executive stakeholder management.

Software Architect

End-to-end system design across healthcare, public safety, robotics, and fintech — from HIPAA compliant platforms to industrial robotics UX.

Consultant & Founder

25+ person consultancy delivering technical strategy, software development, and process optimization across diverse industries.

Educator & Mentor

Architect Club founder, Team Lead Program designer, SCC Advisory Committee member — developing engineers at every level for 15+ years.

Skills

Languages & Runtimes

Python

TypeScript

JavaScript

C#

SQL / T-SQL

Bash

Frameworks & Libraries

FastAPI

Node.js

HTMX

Alpine.js

Tailwind CSS

ASP.NET MVC

Databases & Storage

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

MSSQL

DynamoDB

S3

Cloud & DevOps

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

CloudFormation

Bitbucket Pipelines

Architectures

Monolith

Microservices

Serverless

Event-Driven

Multi-Tenant

REST APIs

Methodologies

Agile / Scrum

Kanban

TDD / BDD

GitHub Flow

DevOps

Pair Programming

Highlights

80+ Engineers

Led and retained a global engineering team through sudden director-level organizational crisis

Wired Magazine

Contributed to best public safety software of 2016 — recognized for modernizing government security infrastructure

NuVasive

Led front-end development of the breakthrough real-time 3D surgical navigation component improving precision across hundreds of spine procedures worldwide

SCC Alumni

A.A.S. Web Development
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Advisory Committee 2004–2011

Teaching & Mentorship

Teaching has been part of my work long before the classroom.

At Fresh Consulting I founded and led the Architect Club — a four-year internal think tank mentoring 10–20 engineers in systems thinking and cross-domain problem solving.

I designed and delivered a 50-hour Team Lead Program helping senior engineers transition into management, built in partnership with HR and the C-suite.

Before that, I served on SCC's Web Development Advisory Committee for seven years to help keep the curriculum aligned with real industry needs.

Developing people is not something I do on the side — it's been a consistent thread through 23 years of technical work.