Niko Kovacevic
Founding Engineer at Stackwatch, creators of Kubecost
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNiko Kovacevic is a founding engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems, currently helping lead Stackwatch (creators of Kubecost) from Boulder. He blends backend engineering in Go and Scala-based data engineering with Python NLP work, delivering performance-focused solutions such as caching optimizations for Kubernetes cost-monitoring APIs. A lifelong math enthusiast with a B.S. from Penn State, he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with pragmatic engineering and DevOps skills. His background spans startups and product engineering roles where he moves between systems-level performance tuning and product-facing APIs. Outside software he’s shown entrepreneurial grit co-founding a specialty coffee roastery, reflecting a taste for craftsmanship and operational detail.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics English, B.S. Mathematics English at Penn State UniversityNorth Allegheny High School
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
api10
golang10
kubernetes9
caching9
kubernetes-pods9
performance-optimization9
cost-optimization8
html6
macos6
materialize6
scheme6
go6
nodejs6
currency6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opencost/opencost
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 788 reviews, 577 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Niko's contributions focused on implementing a caching mechanism for a specific endpoint within the OpenCost project. This involved modifying Go code, introducing a caching library, and adjusting the aggregation API. The changes indicate a focus on optimizing the performance of a core feature, indicating that the user was likely engaged in improving the efficiency of a backend service. The code changes demonstrate skills in Golang development, API modification, and performance optimization techniques, likely with knowledge of the Kubernetes and cloud cost monitoring domain based on the code and repository description.
kubernetesmonitoringopencostawsazure
nikovacevic/gallagher.ghost
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:35 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
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