Summary
Ilija Matoski is a founder and freelance cloud architect with 13 years of engineering experience designing scalable, secure cloud platforms and distributed systems. He has led platform and migration efforts across large enterprises—building AWS and GCP landing zones, Terraform providers, Vault plugins, and Kubernetes-based environments—to improve developer velocity and operational resilience. Comfortable both coding and architecting, he’s delivered high-performance microservices in Go, Node.js and Python and implemented observability, CI/CD and automation at scale. His background spans mission-critical systems, GDPR-compliant PII solutions, and processing petabytes of data, reflecting deep operational and security-minded instincts. Ilija combines hands-on implementation with coaching and DevOps culture change, helping teams adopt repeatable platform patterns. Based in Amstelveen, he pairs entrepreneurial product focus with a long history of building bespoke infrastructure and tooling that outlasts the first release.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Software Engineering at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, “Ss Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, Macedonia
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Information Technology and Automation, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Information Technology and Automation at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, “Ss Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje, Macedonia
Macedonian, English, Serbian, Japanese, Dutch