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Clarity over cleverness
We choose boring, maintainable solutions over clever tricks. Your future maintainers will thank us.
About
A small studio, shipping across the whole stack.
SmileyTech.mk is my personal brand, based in Skopje, North Macedonia. I've been shipping software since 2014 — starting with mobile games at Game2Be and CrazyLabs, then cross-platform product work at iVote, Loka, Dept, and Valtech.
In parallel I run independent projects: SmileyOS (a bare-metal OS in Rust with its own language), Chartly on the Mac App Store, DevHelper on Mac & Microsoft Store, Trackle.mk, and realizirame.mk. I share what I learn on YouTube and Medium.
What we value
Principles that guide the studio.
These are the things we do by default, not the things we want to put on a page. They show up in every project.
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Open by default
Templates, starter kits, and teaching material go public unless a client has a genuine reason to keep it closed.
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Ownership transfer
Every engagement ends with your team able to extend, deploy, and debug the product on their own.
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Cross-layer craft
If a mobile problem is really a backend problem, we say so. We build across layers to pick the right fix.
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Teach what we learn
Tutorials on Medium and YouTube are part of the studio's output, not a side project. Writing sharpens shipping.
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Tight feedback loops
Weekly demos, live previews, and a visible changelog. No big reveals at the end — we ship in public.
Capabilities & stack
Tools we reach for.
Pick any row — we have shipped real products there. We stay picky: the list below is battle-tested, not aspirational.
Mobile
- React Native
- Expo
- Dart · Flutter
- Swift (learning)
Web
- React
- TypeScript · JavaScript
- HTML · CSS
- Redux · Orval
- Algolia · Supabase
Desktop & games
- Electron
- Tauri
- Unity · C#
Systems, tools & design
- Rust · bare-metal
- Smilium (custom lang)
- Cursor · Warp · VSCode · Xcode
- Figma · Adobe XD
- Netlify · Azure DevOps
Journey
How we got here.
2022 — now
Senior Software Developer · Valtech
Cross-platform work for international clients — React, React Native, Electron. Shipped The Social Hub (iOS, Android, web), ShopAz.com commerce, OpenTalk.eu conferencing clients, and an internal hot-desking tool.
2019 — now
Founder · SmileyTech.mk
My personal brand for independent work — DevHelper, Trackle.mk, Chartly, realizirame.mk, and the ongoing SmileyOS project. End-to-end: product, design, engineering, plus tutorials on YouTube and articles on Medium.
2021 — 2022
Team Lead · Dept
Led a team of 5 developers plus 12 trainees during a 3-month internal program. Oversaw planning, code reviews, and technical direction across React and React Native projects — bridging developers and management.
2020 — 2021
Senior Software Developer · Dept
Modernized the Aruba.com frontend with Bloomreach integration, built Rabo Graintell for Rabobank's AgriFinance (deep links, push, widgets), and delivered a Euro 2020 campaign for Takeaway.com.
2020
Senior Mobile Developer · Loka
Built WithMe Health — a React Native healthcare app with real-time chat, chatbot integration, and microservices communication.
2019 — 2020
Senior Software Engineer · iVote
Worked on Demokra, iVote's flagship Elections Management System used by governments. Voter registration, results processing, and reporting modules in a high-availability environment.
2015 — 2019
Game Developer (Junior → Senior) · CrazyLabs
Four years shipping mobile games that reached 4.5B+ downloads worldwide. Led Monster High™ Beauty Shop, contributed to Hotel Transylvania Adventures, and supported 100+ live titles on the Game Live Ops team.
2014 — 2015
Junior Game Developer · Game2Be
My first role — worked on Next Spin Slots, a slot-machine game on Facebook and iOS. Prototyped mini-games, designed three bonus rounds, learned Unity3D / C# the hard way.
