About me
Hi, I'm Aleksa Ćuković - a software engineer from Montenegro, living in Amsterdam. I enjoy learning, solving problems and building things. I especially like building stuff that I can use myself, which is why I prefer to work on infrastructure and developer tooling. When I'm not working I'm hacking on my side projects, hanging out with friends and family, watching TV shows, lifting weights, playing basketball or traveling. To see what I've been up to lately, check out my now page.
About my work
I work as a site reliability engineer at FareHarbor - one of the
lesser-known companies in the Booking Holdings portfolio. If you've ever
booked a tour or activity online, there's a high chance our platform was
what made that possible. Before that, I worked at smaller companies in
Montenegro and did a lot of freelance work, mostly for small companies
and startups.
I like open source software and have made many small contributions to various
projects and open sourced some of my own work. Most of it is available on
my GitHub account.
About this website
My goals with this website have changed a bit over time, though they
haven't really been clear at any point. I've seen a bunch of great
personal websites and read many great posts on them, so I guess I wanted
something like that for myself. Unfortunately I haven't been able to
dedicate the time and effort to make this into a reality yet, so for now
this website mostly serves as an introduciton to myself that I can
reference across different point of my online presence.
The main technical constraints I optimized for while building this website
were that it should be easy to develop and maintain, fast, and as cheap as
possible to host. I'm thankful for Astro and Cloudflare Pages for making it
easy to achieve this goal. Both the code and content for this website live
in a
public GitHub repo,
so you can open issues if you come across any.
The first iteration of this website predates the LLM era, and the majority
of the development work on it was done before LLMs were good at writing code,
so it's still entirely hand-crafted. I intend to keep it that way, mostly
because I don't use AI for writing (other than proofreading) and I'm not planning
to do any development other than small tweaks that are probably easier to
do by hand.
Contact
If you'd like to reach out, feel free to send me an email at hello@aleksac.me. Since I've mostly had positive experiences with people reaching out, my DMs are open, and you can contact me on Twitter and Instagram. You can also connect with me on LinkedIn.