Aleksandar Skrbic
Freelance Software Engineer
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
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Top SchoolAleksandar Skrbic is a freelance software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in backend and data engineering, focused on Functional Scala, Spark, Big Data, and AWS. He is passionate about Scala and functional programming, frequently speaking at conferences and meetups to share practical insights from the ecosystem. Aleksandar contributes to open-source distributed systems projects, including work on secure channel management and OIDC flows in the ockam project, demonstrating hands-on experience with cryptographic and distributed application concerns. Based in Novi Sad, Serbia, he blends academic grounding from the University of Novi Sad with real-world engineering across polyglot stacks. He is comfortable moving between Scala-centric functional design and low-level systems work, including contributions in Rust, which reflects a pragmatic, security-minded approach to building scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad
Serbian, English
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Github Skills (8)
oid10
rust10
encryption9
user-authentication9
authentication9
distributed-systems8
security8
command-line-tool7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
build-trust/ockam
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar implemented features related to shutting down encryptors and decryptors in the Rust codebase, improving secure channel management. They also modified command-line tools to handle default node configurations and updated the codebase to use the correct URL data type. Additionally, the user refactored code related to the OIDC authentication flow, renaming related structs and traits. The user also removed some commands that are used before a user enrolls in the system.
policyenforcemente2eeidentitycredentials
aleksandarskrbic/reactive-analytics-platform
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Analytics platform that tracks user check-ins on specific locations and provides real-time dashboards backed by Quarkus, Postgres, and Kafka-Streams.
Contributions:39 commits, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 days
kafka-streamsanalyticsuser-checkstreamsdashboards
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