Nikola Ristić
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikola Ristić is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently at Microsoft and based in Belgrade, combining strong backend development skills with a master's focus in software engineering. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—having improved GitHub’s official CLI by enhancing pull request UX, API interactions, and test coverage—demonstrating attention to developer workflows and product-quality changes. His background spans embedded systems and business development roles at AIESEC, giving him a rare mix of low-level engineering and sales/partnership experience that helps bridge technical and commercial goals. Nikola’s profile shows a steady progression from rigorous technical education to impactful engineering work, with an interest in leveraging technical skills toward business growth.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Mathematics, Physics and Computer science, High School Diploma, Mathematics, Physics and Computer science at Mathematical Grammar SchoolMaster's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at University of Belgrade, School of Electrical Engineering
English, Serbian
Stackoverflow
7,709reputation
762kreached
7answers
6questions
react-context
top-5%
algorithm
top-5%
Github Skills (26)
git10
go10
github-api10
golang10
cli10
testing9
command-line-interface9
algorithm9
apidoc9
go-testing9
command-line9
react-context9
api9
react9
authentication8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cli/cli
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 11 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikola primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `cli/cli` tool. Their work focused on enhancing the pull request (PR) functionality, including updating the display of PR statuses, draft status, and project information. They also made changes to the underlying API interactions related to pull requests and added tests to verify the implemented features. Furthermore, the user added the ability to print the authentication token.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
rista404/deno-debug
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Debugging utility for deno. Ported from https://npmjs.com/debug
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 32 commits in 1 year 6 months
npmjsdebuggingdenodebugtypescript
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