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Hi, I am Aleks

Aleksandar Tolev

Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services

I am a communicative, resilient, and self working Solutions Architect 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

Skills

Experiences

1
Amazon Web Services

Feb 2019 - Present, Stuttgart

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

Manager Solutions Architect

Jul 2021 - Present

  • 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

  • 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.

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

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019, Stuttgart

Responsibilities:
  • Migrate legacy application to the cloud.
  • Divide monolith application into smaller services.
  • Collect and aggregate requirements from different stakeholders.
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3
adesso SE

Apr 2012 - Sep 2017, Stuttgart

IT service provider covering the German speaking are in Europe

Software Architect

May 2017 - Sep 2017

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

Apr 2017 - Sep 2016

  • 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

  • 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

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

Aug 2012 - Apr 2014

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

Apr 2012 - Jul 2012

  • 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