Summary
Riste Jovanoski is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building backend-first, microservice-based systems across finance, transportation, and telecom domains while living in Germany. He specializes in Java, Spring Boot and RESTful APIs, with hands-on experience integrating cloud databases (Azure SQL), Kafka/Avro pipelines, and frontend work in Angular when projects demand full‑stack scope. Riste has repeatedly worked as a contractor and team lead, mentoring newcomers and conducting technical evaluations, which complements his strong code-review and quality-focused approach. He excels at adapting legacy and greenfield systems—having improved performance and privacy features for smart‑home and enterprise supply‑chain products. Comfortable in globally distributed Agile teams, he combines practical engineering discipline with a knack for translating complex domain rules into robust data models and services. Outside typical duties he has applied NLP components and built chat‑assist/playbook modules, showing curiosity for language tech beyond core backend engineering.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Technical for Computer Technology and Automation, Electrical Technical for Computer Technology and Automation at St. Naum of Ohrid High School, Ohrid, North Macedonia
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - Skopje
English, Macedonian, Serbian, Bulgarian, German