Clarity before complexity
I start by understanding the business process. A clear domain model and explicit decisions give the team a foundation it can reason about.
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Thoughtful engineering.
A human approach.
I bring a backend-first perspective to building useful products. Clear decisions, understandable systems, and dependable delivery guide how I work.
Stefan ShterjoskiSenior Software Engineer · Skopje
THE PERSON BEHIND THE SYSTEMS
I enjoy making complicated things understandable.
My focus is backend engineering with .NET, but I think about the whole product: the information it needs, the services it connects, and the people who rely on it.
Since joining Emit Knowledge in 2020, I’ve worked on enterprise software, electronic signing, document generation, data processing, and integrations. I’m comfortable taking a problem from ambiguous requirements through architecture, implementation, and production support.
The problems I enjoy most have moving parts: several services that need to agree, a business process that needs clearer rules, or an existing system that needs to become easier to maintain.
Backend-firstProduct-mindedEnd-to-end ownership
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How I approach the work.
Reliability is a feature
Retries, validation, duplicate prevention, and monitoring are part of the user experience—even when people never see them.
Build together
I work closely with frontend engineers on APIs and user flows, contribute to code reviews, and help investigate difficult production problems.
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An engineering journey.
Foundation
Strong foundation in full-stack and backend development
Built a solid engineering base across backend development, databases, APIs, and frontend integration, with a focus on writing clean, maintainable, and understandable code.
Recent Years
From implementation to full ownership of systems
Moved beyond feature implementation into owning complete systems - from initial design and architecture to deployment, debugging, and long-term support in production environments.
Now
Software Engineer focused on backend-heavy product systems
Designing and building production-grade systems with a focus on API design, integrations, and workflow-driven architectures. Working across backend services, data flows, and full-stack features, while ensuring systems remain maintainable, observable, and reliable in real-world usage.
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Always learning.
2021 — Present
Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering
University studies
2015 — 2019
Faculty of Electrical Engineering & Information Technologies
Undergraduate studies
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Let’s turn a complex problem into a useful product.