Aleksandar Simovic
Staff Engineer at Mixmax
Belgrade, Central Serbia
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Top SchoolAleksandar Simovic is a staff engineer and serverless architect with 11+ years of experience building and operating highly scalable AWS-native products used by 100,000+ customers. He blends hands-on engineering in JavaScript/Node.js, TypeScript, Swift and occasional Rust/Go with product-facing work—shipping real-time file transfer systems, developer-facing APIs, and serverless platform features like Stedi Functions and Buckets. An AWS Serverless Hero and coauthor of two books on serverless and real-time GraphQL, he is an active open-source contributor to well-known projects such as claudia.js (bot builder and Lambda deployment tooling). Based in Belgrade, he co-organizes the JS Belgrade community and brings a pragmatic, Wardley-mapping-informed approach to architectural decision-making. Equally at home debugging platform-level issues or sketching strategy, he’s known for turning complex integration challenges into reliable serverless solutions.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Gimnazija ČačakInformation Systems and Technologies, Information Systems and Technologies at University of Belgrade
Serbian, English, German, Hebrew
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Github Skills (31)
apim10
javascript10
apidoc10
aws-lambda10
telegram10
api10
api-gateway10
serverless10
nodejs10
serverless-functions10
chatbot10
stripe-api10
command-line-interface9
comand-line9
newline9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
claudiajs/claudia-bot-builder
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Create chat bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Telegram, Viber, Line, GroupMe, Kik and Twilio and deploy to AWS Lambda in minutes
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 129 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar implemented features related to bot integration with various platforms like Telegram, Skype, Line, Viber, and GroupMe. They focused on setting up the necessary API endpoints and integrating with platform-specific APIs for sending and receiving messages. The user also contributed to parsing messages and formatting responses for different platforms, demonstrating a good understanding of bot development and API integrations.
alexa-skills-kitaws-lambdabotslack-bottelegram
claudiajs/example-projects
Jun 2016 - Dec 2018
Simple example projects that show how to use ClaudiaJs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar contributed to the development of serverless functions using Claudia.js for payment processing with Stripe, including both the front-end HTML and back-end API logic. They implemented core payment functionality, including the handling of tokens, amounts, and currency. The user also demonstrated DevOps skills by replacing a rsvg binary and adding Pandoc Lambda layers for file conversion, likely related to the project's goal of providing example projects.
claudiajsjavascriptexample-projects
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