2022-06-08 17:20:11 +03:00
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title: Meet the team - Filip Sodić, Founding Engineer
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authors: [matijasos]
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image: /img/filip-intro-banner.png
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tags: [wasp, new-hire]
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import Link from '@docusaurus/Link';
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import useBaseUrl from '@docusaurus/useBaseUrl';
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import InBlogCta from './components/InBlogCta';
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import WaspIntro from './_wasp-intro.md';
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Find Filip on [GitHub](https://github.com/sodic).
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<WaspIntro />
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<InBlogCta />
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**We are immensely excited to welcome Filip, our latest Founding Software
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Engineer!** Filip is an experienced engineer and a passionate computer
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scientist - his two biggest passions are building compilers/designing
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programming languages and web development (what a lucky coincidence, right?
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;)). Before joining Wasp, Filip earned his stripes in various domains, ranging
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from bioinformatics and the betting industry to route optimisation software.
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Welcome to the team, Filip - we can't wait to see what you build!
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#### Let’s start with two truths and a lie about yourself.
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- I found out about Wasp through a friend/former colleague and still haven’t
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bought him a drink to say thanks.
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- I’ve designed and implemented my own Turing-complete functional programming
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language that compiles to JavaScript.
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- I wasted nearly 30 hours customizing my setup to maximize productivity and
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probably ended up in a less productive state.
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#### Which statement was the lie above? Any interesting stories to share?
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The last one was a lie. I wish it were only 30 hours :)
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I did design [a programming language](https://sodic.github.io/func). It is
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Turing-complete but still far from being practical. For one, it can’t print
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stuff to the screen (or perform any other side effects).
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I never did buy that drink. He’s not letting me forget about it, though.
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#### Why did you join Wasp? What did you do before?
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I've wanted to work on a project where I'd get a chance to design a language
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and build a compiler for quite some time now. While I did develop my own
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language on the side (and even graduated with it), I thought getting paid for
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doing something similar this early in my career was pretty far-fetched.
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Almost all my paid work had something to do with the web, whether on the
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client-side or the server-side. I enjoy nearly all parts of web development
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(yes, even styling websites with CSS :), but one thing I've always found
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annoying was dealing with all the boilerplate. Whenever I start building
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something, I spend most of my time implementing the same repetitive stuff
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(e.g., authentication, databases, SPA routing, API routes, etc.) and relearning
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all the best practices that come with it.
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And then, one day, a friend of mine mentioned Wasp - a DSL aiming to eliminate
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boilerplate from web apps. The product was a perfect fit based on everything I
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know and want to do! Also, I shared a college advisor with the founders (Martin
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and Matija) and only heard great things about them.
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The whole thing sounded almost too good to be true, so joining them to work on
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Wasp was an easy decision.
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#### What is your favorite language?
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I don’t have many favorite things, especially when it comes to technology.
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After going through several cycles of falling in love with a
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language/framework/tool before becoming annoyed by its shortcomings and
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limitations, I made peace with the fact that everything’s a tradeoff. I’ll
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generally choose a language depending on:
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- the problem at hand
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- its current position in the aforementioned cycle :)
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With that said, I'm currently most excited about properly learning Haskell. It
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always looked interesting and exotic. I've gotten a few opportunities to play
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with the language through university courses and on my own but never really had
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an excuse to use it in my day-to-day.
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#### What are you most excited about in Wasp?
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From a developer’s perspective, I’m definitely most excited about designing the
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DSL and working on the compiler.
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From a product standpoint, I love the idea of never again having to implement
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an authentication system.
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#### What’s a feature or project you’re most proud of that you worked on in the past three months?
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[Definitely this thing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ).
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#### How did you start coding?
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No exciting story to tell here, I’m afraid.
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I enrolled in computer science college and first started programming as a part
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of my regular “Introduction to programming” course.
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Before then, I didn’t really know what programming was. In fact, I wanted to
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study electrical engineering. Unluckily for most but luckily for me, our
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college does not let you choose your major (i.e., electrical engineering or
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computing) right away. Instead, they make you go through a shared year of
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universal (and some not-so-universal) courses, only allowing you to specialize
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at the start of your second year. Thanks to this quirk, I had a chance to
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encounter programming, change my mind, and enroll in computer science.
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#### Your dev setup?
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As far as hardware goes, it’s pretty basic. I use a regular laptop that’s
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starting to show signs of age (ASUS N550JX), a cheap Lenovo mouse, and my
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laptop’s integrated keyboard.
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The software setup is a bit more interesting. I’m usually on Manjaro Linux with
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the i3 tiling window manager. I jump between editors depending on what I’m
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doing. It’s sometimes Vim, but mainly something more powerful that comes with
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Vim emulation (e.g., VS Code or JetBrains IDEs). My preferred shell is zsh
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(sorry Frane).
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#### `camelCase` or `snake_case`?
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NoPreference
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#### What is your current favorite gem, library, tool, or anything else that helps you with your work? Why?
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That would have to be [ranger](https://github.com/ranger/ranger)!
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Ranger is a terminal file manager I use daily, mainly because it makes my work
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in the shell much faster. It also gives me a consistent interface for moving
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around, previewing files, and interacting with the file system. In other words,
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my workflow doesn't have to change much regardless of where I am (Mac, Linux
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Desktop, or Linux server).
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#### One piece of advice you’d give to budding developers?
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It’s easy to get stuck in an endless loop of polishing and fine-tuning your
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projects because you think they aren’t ready yet. Good enough sometimes truly
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is good enough and things can often be considered done before _you_ consider
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them done.
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I still occasionally need to give this advice to myself :).
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#### Lastly, where can people find or connect with you online?
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GitHub: [https://github.com/sodic](https://github.com/sodic)
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LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipsodic/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/filipsodic/)
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