Marko Stanacev is a founder and seasoned backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, scalable systems and a deep command of .NET memory management, postmortem analysis, and cloud-native architectures on AWS. He has designed transaction services for fintech from scratch, acted as a software architect, and repeatedly troubleshot issues in very large codebases (20M+ LOC), demonstrating both hands-on coding and system-level thinking. His open-source contributions to prominent projects like Ansible show attention to developer experience—improving YAML, XML modules, and Windows IIS integrations—highlighting a pragmatic focus on interoperability and clear error messaging. Based in Zrenjanin, Serbia, he blends academic training (MSc in Computer Software Engineering) with entrepreneurial drive and a curiosity for metaheuristic algorithms that informs creative problem-solving in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technical faculty "Mihajlo Pupin" University of Novi Sad
Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Faculty of Technical Sciences University of Novi Sad
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 64 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marko contributed to the Ansible project by addressing code-related issues and adding documentation improvements. Their work focused on improving YAML syntax, fixing a typo in a Windows IIS module, and enhancing the XML module. They also made contributions related to namespaces and error messages, clarifying notes and improving the user experience.
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