Aleksandar Erkalovic
Senior Software Engineer at NVTEH Ltd
Zagreb, Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandar Erkalovic is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zagreb with 16 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and content platforms for publishing and gaming. He has led teams and projects across startups and enterprises—shipping React migrations, in-house game backends at Nanobit, and mission-critical IoT and integrations work at Schuberg Philis including a Kubernetes-to-AWS Fargate migration and Terraform automation. A long-time open-source contributor, Aleksandar is a core back-end developer on Booktype and the maintainer of ebooklib, implementing EPUB2/EPUB3 parsing, SMIL support and plugins that power automated e-book production. He combines hands-on implementation with infrastructure and integration expertise (Okta, Jira, AFAS) and a strong history of consulting and support for complex database deployments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture and for turning content-heavy workflows into reliable, automatable systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu
Croatian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
epub10
python10
back-end-development10
django10
html10
xml10
lib9
content-management-system9
content-management9
xhtml8
informix6
vbnet6
asp-net6
lxml6
git6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aerkalov/ebooklib
May 2013 - Dec 2022
Python E-book library for handling books in EPUB2/EPUB3 format -
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 commits, 60 PRs, 79 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar's contributions primarily involve the development of a Python ebook library. They implemented core functionality for handling EPUB2/EPUB3 files, including parsing, creating, and writing EPUB files. The commits reflect the development of classes and methods for handling different EPUB elements like HTML, NCX, and cover pages. The user also added various features such as SMIL support and plugins for additional functionality like HTML cleaning.
python-librarypythone-bookhandlingepub
booktype/Booktype
Jan 2012 - Aug 2016
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1128 commits, 285 PRs, 389 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar's commits primarily focused on back-end development, specifically in the context of a platform for creating books. The contributions involved modifying chapter-related content, enhancing table of contents and other improvements in the view for content management. The changes touched upon code related to display, formatting and displaying chapter information, suggesting work on content management functionalities within the platform.
ebookspythondjangoformattedpdf
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