Darko Gjorgjijoski · Skopje, N. Macedonia

I design and ship trustworthy systems.

Software architect and senior engineer with 12+ years taking products from system design through secure, reliable production.

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Open to remote software architect and senior/staff engineering roles.

capabilities

The systems view.

Four connected disciplines, applied from the first architecture decision through production operations.
01 / software architecture

Architecture that survives contact with delivery.

I turn product goals and constraints into clear boundaries, interfaces, quality attributes, and evolutionary decisions a team can actually implement.

→ System boundaries and interfaces→ Trade-off and risk decisions→ Incremental modernization paths
02 / production 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.

→ Hands-on product delivery→ Deployment and observability→ Reliability, performance, and cost
03 / 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.

→ Threat models and trust boundaries→ Identity and least privilege→ Data and supply-chain safeguards
04 / AI systems engineering

Useful agents with explicit boundaries.

I design AI-enabled workflows as software systems: tools, context, evaluation, identity, and human control, not a prompt wrapped in a demo.

→ Agent workflows and tool contracts→ Evaluation and regression suites→ Human approval and safe failure paths
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selected work

Architecture with evidence.

Products, platforms, and reference implementations described through constraints, decisions, operations, and outcomes.
maintainer

InvoiceShelf

Self-hosted invoicing for individuals and small businesses.

evidence · Multi-company tenancy with scoped roles, invitations, and data isolation
founding engineer

CelerSearch

Managed search infrastructure for applications, WordPress, and WooCommerce.

evidence · Provisioned and operated 2,000+ Meilisearch instances
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blog

Engineering, written down.

Direct, practical writing on AI systems, architecture, production engineering, and security.
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