Marko Bakovic
Founding Engineer at Spiral
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarko Bakovic is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building backend systems and leading teams across startups and enterprise-scale products. He helped shape Palantir Foundry, hired and mentored dozens of engineers, and later led engineering at Tenderly where he designed the company’s Node RPC and serverless Web3 Actions while scaling the org to ~40 engineers. Now at Spiral as a founding engineer, he blends rigorous, future-proof design instincts learned at Palantir with the pragmatic, product-focused iteration practiced at Tenderly. A hands-on backend contributor to Tenderly’s open-source CLI—extending action triggers and filters—he demonstrates deep familiarity with Web3 developer tooling and production-grade architectures. Trained in computer science with additional studies in theoretical mathematics, he combines practical system design with a strong analytical mindset. Colleagues note he thrives on mentoring and turning hard tradeoffs into durable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Računarski fakultetTheoretical Mathematics, Theoretical Mathematics at University of BelgradeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Prva Kragujevačka Gimnazija
English, Serbian
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Github Skills (17)
go10
ethereum10
smart-contracts10
cli10
developer-tools9
rest-api8
alerts8
alertview8
alertifyjs8
alertdialog8
api-rest8
monitoring8
restful-api8
api-design8
typescript-types3
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Tenderly/tenderly-cli
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
CLI tool for Smart Contract error tracking, monitoring and alerting.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 16 reviews, 28 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marko primarily contributed to the back-end of the `tenderly/tenderly-cli` repository, focusing on the action definitions and triggers. They worked on generating and refactoring code related to actions, which included structs, payloads, and trigger configurations, indicating a focus on enhancing the core functionality of the CLI tool. Their changes included adding support for new trigger types and filters, indicating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and the ability to extend its capabilities. The user also modified the dependencies and build configurations of the CLI.
real-time-analyticssmart-contractethereumcontractdeveloper-tools
Tenderly/tenderly-actions
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Deploy a custom JavaScript/Typescript function that hooks into an on-chain event and builds active monitoring or a serverless backend for a dapp, improves dapp UX, and connects different services.
Contributions:5 reviews, 54 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
ethereumblockchainweb3tenderlyweb3-actions
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