Summary
Aleksander Demko is a Principal Backend Developer with 18 years of experience building high-performance systems across Linux, Windows, AWS, Android and embedded platforms. He is fluent in C++, Java, C# and Go, with practical Python and TypeScript skills, and specializes in concurrent algorithms, cryptographic network protocols, OpenGL rendering, efficient database design and image-focused machine learning. At Autodesk he leads backend architecture while mentoring teams to improve software quality, reduce technical debt and evaluate emerging technologies. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UI, color management and brush tooling in the widely used Krita digital painting project, reflecting a blend of low-level systems thinking and user-facing polish. He holds a BCompSci and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba, bringing research-grade rigor to production engineering challenges. Colleagues rely on him to bridge graphics, backend scale and security-conscious networking in complex, cross-platform products.
18 years of coding experience
BCompSci, Computer Science, BCompSci, Computer Science at University of Manitoba