Sasha Simic
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSasha Simic is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Greater Seattle Area with nine years of modern engineering leadership and a longer history founding and scaling product-focused tech companies. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—recently contributing UI and collaboration improvements to Microsoft’s high-profile Fluid Framework—with strategic product and regulatory experience from founding PanGo Medical and leading Johari Healthcare into FDA/CE-compliant markets. Sasha has built consumer-facing mobile and web platforms that reached millions of users at Xevo and launched a Node.js/React Native SaaS, Tippy, that accelerates customer-facing app delivery. He is comfortable moving between code and strategy, mentoring teams while driving architecture for real-time, distributed systems. An engineer who also navigates commercialization and compliance, he brings uncommon depth in both medical device productization and collaborative web platforms.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of BelgradeBachelor Electrical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering at California State University, Fresno
Serbian, English
Github Skills (10)
fluid-framework10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
crdt10
typescript-types10
collaboration9
react9
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/FluidFramework
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:617 reviews, 104 commits, 153 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Sasha primarily focused on refactoring the codebase by replacing deprecated components with newer ones, such as replacing `TableDocument` with `SharedMatrix`. They also contributed to the UI by implementing or modifying components, showing the use of `GridView` and `TableView`. The user has contributed to the improvement of sharing and collaboration features, which is aligned with the repository's purpose.
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
ssimic2/FluidFramework
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Contributions:221 pushes, 89 branches in 11 months
distributedweb-applicationswebsocketcollaborativereal-time
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