Saša Šijak is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack systems, from high-traffic backend platforms to polished React front-ends. He’s worked across industries—gaming, betting, blockchain, and enterprise—delivering scalable services, integrations, and user-facing apps while avoiding lock-in to any single tech stack. Notable work includes contributing front-end improvements to OffchainLabs’ Arbitrum token bridge and implementing major DApp and enterprise sites as a Toptal contractor. Driven by curiosity since childhood (he taught himself the Latin alphabet to play on a Commodore 64), he enjoys solving real problems, learning new tools, and shipping pragmatic solutions. Comfortable leading teams and shipping solo, he pairs deep backend experience (Java, Kotlin, Python, messaging systems) with modern frontend craft (React, TypeScript, Tailwind/Chakra) and a long history of production deployments.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor Computer Sciences, bachelor Computer Sciences at School of Computing, Union University
high school mathematics physics programming, high school mathematics physics programming at High School of Mathematics
💙 Interface for bridging assets to and from Arbitrum chains
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 61 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Saša primarily focused on implementing user interface elements and integrating styling within the Arbitrum token bridge repository. They added Tailwind CSS and used it to style the components, including modifying the default styles and adding custom styling. Their contributions include adjusting layouts, creating and modifying components such as the NetworkBox and the TokenModal.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 6 months
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