My name is Mateja Marić. I’m a 23 years old software engineer from Belgrade, Serbia.

I learned my first programming language when I was a kid and have been working professionally for about three years now. In those three years I’ve been lucky to try out basically every aspect of programming and maintaining web applications (Frontend, Backend, DevOps). And with that I realised, what I kind of knew from the start, that I’m most interested in backend development. Naturally, I’m very glad, and it helped me a lot to experience every part of the process. Interestingly enough, I would say my biggest lessons from working in the industry so far were not technical, but interpersonal.

Through the years, I realised what I valued the most about software engineering is the ability to express ideas. It’s my belief that programming truly is a form of art. With that, programming language design is one field of computer science that never ceased to interest me. Right now, I’m most interested in purely functional programming languages.

I also value, a lot, open source and free (as in freedom) software. At some point, I used only free and open source software, but since I got employed that’s sadly no longer the case…

Besides my interest in computers, I would say I’m a very curious person in general and have other interests in both natural and social sciences.

On this website you can find some of my personal projects, blog posts, contact information and CV.