Ilija Eftimov
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIlija Eftimov is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend platforms and microservice ecosystems, currently leading a product engineering team on Stripe Tax in Amsterdam. He has deep hands-on experience migrating monoliths to microservices, shipping gRPC-based APIs and platform tooling at companies like Scribd and Catawiki, and has progressed from individual contributor to manager while still contributing technical direction. Ilija’s open-source contributions span backend package-management work for Hex and front-end UX improvements to a popular Hugo theme, showing comfort across stack boundaries and attention to developer and user experience. He’s known for hiring and mentoring teams from scratch, championing CI/CD and observability, and aligning product and platform roadmaps to unlock velocity for growth. A pragmatic collaborator, he particularly enjoys solving challenges at scale and bringing order to complex distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at University American College Skopje
English, Macedonian, Dutch
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Github Skills (32)
hugo10
javascript10
erlang10
package-management10
apidoc10
elixir10
css10
api10
phoenix-liveview10
front-end-development10
phoenix-framework10
html10
apache-phoenix10
exunit9
wordpress-themes9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hexpm/hexpm
Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
API server and website for Hex
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 51 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ilija primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Hex.pm API server, focusing on package management and user authentication. They implemented features such as package metadata validation, user email verification, and password reset functionality. Their work also involved refactoring and improving existing code, including tests and documentation related to API endpoints and core data models. The commits also demonstrate work related to email notifications and package retirement handling.
hexapielixirphoenixapi-server
hexpm/hex
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 30 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ilija primarily contributed to improving the `hex` package manager for the Erlang ecosystem. Their work focused on enhancing the package publishing process by raising errors for missing metadata, such as package descriptions. The user also refined build processes, added functionality for listing owned packages, and improved documentation tasks. They also implemented stricter dependency checks for releases.
erlangelixirpackage-managererlang-vm
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