Senior Software Engineer Gjorge Karakabakov

Crafting unique digital experiences with JavaScript for 11+ years — React, React Native and Node.js.

II The craft

JavaScript engineering and team leadership

Highly motivated

JavaScript Engineer

crafting unique digital experiences for 11+ years. My specialization lies in developing robust, scalable and high performance web and mobile applications.

Dedicated

Team Leader

with experience in leading small to large teams, mentoring junior engineers, managing deadlines and stakeholder expectations.

11+ years shipping

III The products

Three apps for Mac and iPhone

Drawn illustration of one tall block on the left and a scatter of loose fragments across the right, each fragment tied by a line back to the block, with a total bar beneath them longer than the block alone.

macOS disk analyser

Sunflower

See what filled your disk, including the part macOS will not name.

See Sunflower

Drawn illustration of switches down the left, four of them thrown in colour, each feeding a line into a bar chart on the right that grows taller with every switch that's lit.

macOS and iOS

Cadence

Thirty trackers in one app, with nothing on a server.

See Cadence

Drawn illustration of a laptop with its screen dimmed to a starry night sky and a crescent moon, tied by a line to a marker set on a timeline beneath it.

macOS menu bar

Sleep Timer

Sleep in forty minutes, or at eleven tonight.

See Sleep Timer

Browser games

idad.fyi — Eight games that open in a browser tab.

Play the games

IV The domains

Business knowledge in multiple industries

Fintech

Security. Innovation. Accessibility.

HR Tech

Compliance. Scale. Trust.

Medtech

Precision. Empathy. Reliability.

Edtech

Engagement. Adaptability. Inclusivity.

E-Commerce

User experience. Scalability. Convenience.

V Writing

Notes on building for the web

Article

Sunflower: my disk was full and macOS would not say why

System Settings says System Data and stops there. A Mac disk analyser that names what is inside it, sizes Xcode by what it really costs, and folds what it cannot prove into one honest row rather than guessing at it.

Article

A trailer for Cadence, made by an agent for $6.13

OpenMontage runs video production as a pipeline an agent drives. It found thirty stock clips of real life, generated three more, picked the music by measuring it, and hand-wrote the Remotion composition. Thirty seconds, $6.13, no screenshots in it.

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Let's build something amazing together!

I am a Senior Software Engineer in Skopje, working remotely with teams anywhere — eleven years of React, React Native and Node.js, a good part of it leading the people building alongside me. I take on product work, design systems and technical leadership. Everything here is free and open: the courses need no sign-up, the writing has no paywall, and email is the fastest way to reach me.

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