Lazar Kovacic
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLazar Kovacic is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 10 years of experience building consumer-focused embedded and backend systems, currently improving Live TV on Fire TV and driving storage optimizations that reclaimed ~8% of device space. He helped bootstrap Amazon’s voice-and-device control features for Fire TV and led the first Open Source Matter Casting effort, integrating cross-industry standards to enable casting on Prime Video and other apps. His open-source contributions to the Matter project reflect hands-on work across embedded stacks and backend tooling—adding media clusters, commands, and example integrations while fixing build and code-generation issues. With a background spanning mobile, web, and IoT products from startups to Amazon, he blends product-minded engineering with pragmatic systems design and a knack for squeezing efficiencies out of constrained platforms.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, Bachelor's degree, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at VISERHigh School, High School at First Belgrade HighschoolMaster's degree, Graphic Design, Master's degree, Graphic Design at Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade
French, English, Serbian, German
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
xml9
api8
apidoc8
architectures7
testing7
architecture7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:488 reviews, 57 commits, 104 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Lazar primarily contributed to implementing and integrating new media-related functionalities, such as media playback and content launch, within the Matter connected home ecosystem. Their work involved adding new clusters, defining related commands and attributes, and updating both the chip-tool and example TV applications to support these features. Furthermore, the user addressed build issues and ensured code generation scripts functioned correctly, indicative of contributions to both the back-end logic and the embedded system integration within the project's broader architecture.
connectivity-standards-alliancebuild-with-matterguidedzephyrconnectivity
mthiesc/connectedhomeip
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Contributions:81 pushes in 2 months
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