Tomaž Tekavec
Staff Engineer at Checkout.com
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTomaž Tekavec is a Staff Engineer based in London with 11+ years building resilient backend microservices and serverless data transformation pipelines at Checkout.com. He specializes in .NET Core/C#, AWS (Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Aurora, SQS/SNS, ECS), and both SQL and NoSQL systems, with applied experience in Python and TypeScript. Beyond coding, he drives architecture, CI/CD and IaC (Terraform, Spacelift), mentors teams, and integrates M&A monitoring tooling like Prometheus, Grafana and DataDog to improve reliability. His background spans fintech and lending platforms (Zopa) to full-stack and startup engineering, giving him a rare combination of product ownership and deep platform engineering. Trained as a physical chemist, he brings analytic rigor and a history of founding and shipping software products dating back to the 1990s. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design trade-offs that balance operational excellence with fast delivery.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. Physical chemistry, M. Sc. Physical chemistry at University of LjubljanaHigh School Diploma Applied mathematics and programming, High School Diploma Applied mathematics and programming at Science and math gymnasium, Velenje
English, Serbian, Croatian, German, Slovenian
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Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tekavec/PaymentGateway
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
tekavec/fsharp_LeapYearKata
Oct 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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