Marko Simic
Chief Technology Officer at EvolveWell
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarko Simic is a seasoned technology executive with 26 years of experience leading AI-driven engineering teams and startups, currently serving as CTO of EvolveWell while also founding shoki ai. His background spans deep learning research and applied robotics—rising from research engineer roles at Ascent Robotics to CTO—plus prior work on efficient neural networks at LeapMind. Marko pairs strong academic training (graduate work at MIT and PhD studies in AI at Skolkovo) with hands-on product development, contributing full-stack code to notable open-source projects such as the Raycast OpenAI extension where he implemented multi-model support and token-limit handling. Based in Los Angeles, he blends systems-level orchestration with low-level technical contributions, often surfacing practical solutions from research prototypes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic inventor who turns complex AI research into polished, user-facing tools.
26 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Chemical Engineering, GPA 10.00, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Chemical Engineering, GPA 10.00 at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of BelgradeGraduate, Computer Science, Graduate, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Incomplete, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Incomplete at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
English, Serbian
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
openai-api10
typescripts10
integrate10
integrations10
data-integration10
react10
typescript-types10
api-design9
json7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Marko primarily contributed to the development of the OpenAI GPT extension within the Raycast ecosystem. Their work included adding support for various OpenAI models (GPT-3, Codex, and GPT-4 variants), updating documentation, and modifying the extension's user interface. They refactored the codebase by removing deprecated models and added the ability to handle multiple models, including the new 'preview' model. Additionally, the user was responsible for handling the model token limits and ensuring the extension adhered to best practices.
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simicvm/gist
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:40 commits, 1 push in 20 days
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