software architecture
Architecture that survives contact with delivery.
I turn product goals and constraints into clear interfaces, reliability goals, and a practical plan a team can implement.
Darko Gjorgjijoski
Software architect
Software architect and senior engineer with 12+ years building products and keeping them running in production. My work spans applications, infrastructure, security, and AI.
Always happy to talk about software architecture, platforms, and AI systems.
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All writing2026-08-21
From CakePHP to Laravel
2026-07-27
Resource requests are load-bearing
2026-06-09
Never set a Redis memory limit equal to its maxmemory
2026-04-14
One public IPv4 for the whole cluster
How I work
From the first design decision to the software running in production.
More about my approachproduction engineering
Build it, ship it, operate it.
I move across application code, data, delivery, observability, reliability, performance, and cost so architecture stays connected to what actually runs.
security by design
Security in the architecture, not after it.
I model trust boundaries, identity, data exposure, dependencies, and failure modes early, then encode least privilege into the implementation.
AI systems engineering
Useful agents with explicit boundaries.
I build AI workflows with scoped tools, explicit permissions, repeatable evaluations, and review before consequential actions.