Milan Simonović
Senior Solutions Architect at Avaloq
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMilan Simonović is a Senior Solutions Architect with 15+ years of hands-on software and cloud experience, now focused on AWS, DevOps and serverless architectures using Node.js/TypeScript and Python. He has a proven track record of taking prototypes to production—optimizing infrastructure, automating CI/CD, and driving cost-efficient cloud migrations for enterprises and high-traffic e-commerce sites. Milan blends presales and technical delivery experience from projects spanning generative-AI search platforms to banking SaaS, and has led security and scalability efforts across teams. An active open-source contributor, he improved OpenAPI request validation and debugging in popular Node.js tooling, demonstrating attention to developer experience and robustness. Based in Zurich, he combines pragmatic engineering with systems-level architecture and a knack for turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, observable systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Univerzitet u Nišu
English, Serbian
Stackoverflow
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200answers
8questions
lucene
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openapi
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mongodb
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java
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swagger
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gwt
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Github Skills (26)
api-rest10
expressjs10
api-design10
restful-api10
rest-api10
nodejs10
mongodb10
openapi10
thread-safety9
javascript9
java9
lucene9
swagger9
gwt9
aws-lambda9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kogosoftwarellc/open-api
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
A Monorepo of various packages to power OpenAPI in node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 16 PRs, 95 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Milan primarily contributed to the `openapi-request-validator` and `openapi-framework` packages, focusing on enhancing OpenAPI specification handling within a Node.js environment. Their work included addressing multipart/form-data handling, refactoring to prevent request body validation for methods without parameters, and ensuring proper schema definitions were passed to the request validator for both OpenAPI v2 and v3. Furthermore, they added logging capabilities to the `openapi-framework` and `openapi-request-validator` to help with debugging.
apimonorepoexpressnodejsexpress-openapi
meringlab/cellbase-docker
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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