BLAGOJ SIMONOVSKI

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Skopje, Macedonia  |  [email protected]  |  LinkedIn

Introduction

I am a Solutions Architect with over 10 years of experience designing and implementing scalable cloud and software solutions across diverse industries. My expertise encompasses the full software lifecycle, from pre-sales technical consulting and rapid prototyping to high-level architectural design, infrastructure planning, hands-on backend development, database optimization, and DevOps automation.

I have successfully delivered solutions across microservices, event-driven, and serverless architectures on all major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), with particular depth in the Java ecosystem, Spring Boot, and modern data technologies including PostgreSQL, vector databases, and LLMs. I excel at building proof-of-concepts that validate technical feasibility and accelerate decision-making, while also supporting sales teams with technical expertise during client engagements.

Throughout my career, I've led cross-functional teams, mentored developers, and driven strategic technical initiatives that balance business objectives with engineering excellence. I thrive in collaborative environments where I can contribute to both the technical vision and the day-to-day problem-solving that brings that vision to life. What truly motivates me is creating software that delivers tangible value to users and organizations, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, shared learning, and collective success within my teams.

Professional Experience

Aviation AI RAG Platform
Solutions Architect
August 2025 - ongoing
  • Architecture and infrastructure design
  • Domain Driven Design and Data Architecture
  • Integration of web services with RAG-optimized LLMs
  • Integration of Quarkus with LangChain4j
  • Deploying containerized Ollama models
  • Code and development practices review
  • Project and delivery management
  • Discovery and business analysis
Logistics Web Platform
Solutions Architect
September 2025 - November 2025
  • Architecture and infrastructure design
  • Domain Driven Design and Data Architecture
  • Order processing with Spring AI and Gemini API
  • Building Vaadin UIs
  • Code and development practices review
  • Project and delivery management
  • Discovery and business analysis
eSchool Platform
Solutions Architect
January 2025 - October 2025
  • Architecture and infrastructure design
  • Domain Driven Design and Data Architecture
  • Code and development practices review
  • Project and delivery management
  • Discovery and business analysis
Aviation IT System
Software Architect
April 2024 - August 2025
  • Architecture and infrastructure design
  • Integration planning
  • Code and development practices review
  • Discovery and business analysis
Media-Marketing Web Platform
Solutions Architect
January 2021 - April 2024
  • Led 8 development teams in designing and developing the application services
  • Participated in an architectural board that oversaw 300 people and the entire delivery process
  • High-level software and infrastructure design
  • Continuous implementation of evolving microservices architecture
  • Extracting development targets from business roadmaps and feature design
  • Code and practices review, planning non-functional improvements
  • Developed PoCs
  • Helped with major incidents and bug fixing
Business-Intelligence Solution
Solutions Architect
October 2022 - September 2023
  • Design and implementation of network, infrastructure, application and data layers
  • Backend development in Java and Spring Boot
  • Code reviews
  • Bug fixing
Media-Marketing Web Platform
Development Team Lead
January 2019 - January 2021
  • Led a 10-person development team
  • Design and development of application components
  • Technical tasks involving code refactoring and improvement
  • Bug fixing
  • Implementation of high-level design and architecture
  • Client demo presentations
Media-Marketing Infrastructure Platform
DevOps Team Lead
May 2017 - January 2019
  • Supported every phase of the software development lifecycle and responded to incidents
  • Design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines and release strategies
  • Design and implementation of AWS-based IaaS and PaaS solutions
  • Database architecture design and administration
  • Incident response
Timekeeping App
Software Engineer
September 2016 - January 2017
  • Database design and development
  • Network communication planning
  • Feature development in Java
  • Code reviews
  • Bug fixing

Certifications

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 Programmer
Oracle
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate
Databricks
LPI Linux Essentials
Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
AXELOS Global Best Practice
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment English
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment English
Cambridge English: First (FCE)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment English

Education & Training

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Computer System Engineering, Automation and Robotics
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje
International Training for Foreign Students
St. Wilfrid's High School
Leeds, England
2015
Team Engineering Competition - Mission on Mars Robot Challenge
MathWorks in Paris, France
2016 - 16th place by world rankings
Communication Feature for Air Traffic Control
Eurocontrol Hackathon
2016
Seavus Engineering Competition
2016 - 2nd place

Technical Skills

Server-side
Java Spring Spring Boot Spring AI REST Hibernate Liquibase JUnit Mockito ArchUnit ActiveMQ RabbitMQ Kafka Hazelcast Eureka Zuul Hystrix JWT JSON OpenID SAML Nginx WordPress cPanel
Client-side
HTML CSS JavaScript NodeJS React HTMX
Data
SQL PostgreSQL PgBouncer PgVector MySQL Elasticsearch Cassandra LLMs Ollama
Infrastructure
AWS Azure Google Cloud Ansible Terraform Docker Kubernetes Nagios ELK
Continuous Deployment
Git Jenkins GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Argo CD Maven Gradle Nexus SonarQube
Methodologies
Scrum Kanban ITIL Enabling Team Topologies C4 Diagrams