Tasko Olevski
Back End Team Lead at Swiss Data Science Center
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolTasko Olevski is a Back End Team Lead with 8 years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and APIs, currently leading backend development for the Renku reproducible data science platform at the Swiss Data Science Center. He combines deep domain expertise in ambient air quality and emissions inventory modeling with hands-on skills in Python, Go, Kubernetes, Terraform and ETL pipelines to operationalize models and large unstructured datasets. Tasko has a track record of improving architecture and developer workflows—merging Helm charts, creating an API-spec-first design, and implementing a Go reverse proxy to boost testability and reliability. He has delivered real-time cloud services for traffic emissions and air quality visualization, and operationalized ML models for avalanche risk and image identification. Comfortable translating technical complexity for diverse stakeholders, he enjoys cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing across teams. Based in Zurich, he pairs an applied science background in chemical engineering with production-grade software engineering for environmental and scientific applications.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Applied Science - Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Science - Chemical Engineering at University of Toronto
German, Macedonian, English
Github Skills (119)
python10
identity10
authentication10
oauth2-proxy10
spawning10
collaboration10
operator10
api10
knowledge-graph10
csi10
jupyter10
authorization10
jupyter-notebook10
openid10
ssl10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
olevski/eh
May 2023 - Sep 2024
Rust-like error handling in Go
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
errorerror-handlinggogolangrust
SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Services that handle reading and writing data from a database
Contributions:27 releases, 632 reviews, 262 PRs in 2 years
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