Aleksandar Tolev

Hi, I am Aleks

I am a Solutions Architect Manager

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.

My resume
Team Work
Backbone
Leadership
Industry Knowledge
Software Engineering
GenAI Foundations

Skills

Cloud Computing

Writing concepts and implementing cloud native apps in a scalable, elastic and highly available manner is one of my specialites.

Software Engineering in the age of AI

Correlating existing software engineering concepts to the AI driven development cycle.

Trusted Advisor

Act as trusted advisor for customers and team members navigating ambiguity and complex challenges.

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.
2
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.
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

University of Stuttgart
2006-2011
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
Zeppelin Gymnasium Stuttgart
1997-2006
High School
Ostheim
1993-1997
Elementary School

Publications