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Hi, I am Aleks

Aleksandar Tolev

Solutions Architect Manager at Amazon Web Services

I am a communicative, resilient, and self working Solutions Architect Manager who is looking for new challenges and who loves to work in teams. Working with new state of the art technologies is a lot of fun. In my free time I love travelling, cooking, and doing sports.

Team Work
Backbone
Leadership
Industry Knowledge
Software Engineering
GenAI Foundations

Skills

Experiences

1
Amazon Web Services

Feb 2019 - Present

Stuttgart

Wheter you’re looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, AI powered services, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased security, flexibility, scalability, and reliability.

Senior Manager Solutions Architecture

Jul 2021 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Hiring, developing, and growing a team of Solutions Architect.
  • Suggest and implement programs and initiatives for the focused function Solutions Architecture team.
  • Serve as a key member of the customer facing team in helping to ensure customer success in building applications and services on the AWS platform.
Senior Solutions Architect

Feb 2019 - Jun 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Build technical relationships with customers (up to C-suite) and operate as trusted advisor.
  • Creating and sharing best practices, technical content and new reference architectures.
  • Proactively work within the organization to influence the evolution of the platform.

Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

Stuttgart

Cloud Architect

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Migrate legacy application to the cloud.
  • Divide monolith application into smaller services.
  • Collect and aggregate requirements from different stakeholders.
2

3
adesso SE

Apr 2012 - Sep 2017

Stuttgart

IT service provider covering the German speaking are in Europe

Software Architect

May 2017 - Sep 2017

Responsibilities:
  • Collect and aggregate technical requirements for architecture design.
  • Architecture design of integration layer.
  • Developing and testing new functionalities.
Software Architect

Apr 2017 - Sep 2016

Responsibilities:
  • Collect and aggregate technical requirements for architecture design.
  • Architecture design of integration layer.
  • Create user stories on behalf of the product owner to cover the technical aspects.
Lead Software Engineer

Sep 2014 - Dec 2016

Responsibilities:
  • Implement software development principles in a development team.
  • Build and setup of a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline
  • Collect customer feedback and incorporate feedback.
Senior Software Developer

May 2014 - Aug 2014

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and test user stories.
  • Overlook CI/CD pipeline health.
  • Research on new technology capabilities.
Software Developer

Aug 2012 - Apr 2014

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and test user stories.
  • Test embedded hardware.
  • Participate in communities.
Software Developer

Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

Responsibilities:
  • Develop and test user stories.
  • Build a PoC.

Education

Dipl. Inf. Software Engineering
Taken Courses:
  • Management Tool for University of Stuttgart
  • Study Project A, Web Application for creating Workflows
  • Study project B, Search Engine for Competitive Intelligence
High School
1993-1997
Elementary School

Publications

The AWS approach to secure generative AI
Youtube 5 Nov 2024
Sibasankar Behera Aleksandar Tolev

In this session you will learn how AWS makes the use of generative AI service like Amazon Bedrock secure by default.

Learning From the IBM PC: How an open hardware platform for automotive applications can help transform the industry
AWS Blog Post 7 Aug 2023
Daniel Schleicher Aleksandar Tolev

Drawing a parallel to the story of the IBM PC, this blog post shows how the introduction of an open hardware platform for automotive applications might create a similar environment driving innovation, disruption, and transformation for the automotive industry. This blog post also discusses the potential advantages for the first automotive company to release such a platform.

SDV Pulse Report
Thoughtworks June 2024
Christian Mueller Daniel Schleicher Francesco Salamida Sushant Dhamnekar Aleksandar Tolev Eirk Doernenburg Marcos Silveira Michael Fait Sriram Jayaraman Vivek Poovalingam

The Pulse chart has been designed to help organizations in the automotive industry keep track of relevant trends, developments and opportunities across the SDV space.

Signed cookie-based authentication with Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@Edge: Part 1 - Authentication
AWS Blog Post 26 Jan 2022
Marco Staufer Aleksandar Tolev

In this first blog, you will learn how to implement the authentication mechanism. In the second blog post, you will learn how to implement the authorization mechanism and complete the solution.

Signed cookie-based authentication with Amazon CloudFront and AWS Lambda@Edge: Part 2 - Authorization
AWS Blog Post 26 Jan 2022
Marco Staufer Aleksandar Tolev

In this second part of the blog series, you will learn how to implement the authorization mechanism. In the previous blog post, you learnt how to implement the authentication mechanism. If you read part one of the blog post, skip the introduction and continue reading at Prerequisites.