Based in
Niš, Serbia · CET
Fig. 7
Detail A · The engineer
Lazar Stanković.
Engineer, writer, one-man shop.
I have spent six years building backend and product software for banks, hospitals, insurers and sensor networks. Most of it I cannot show you. All of it taught me something, and the lessons are not under NDA.
In 2026 I run DevLazar from Niš, Serbia: a few commissions at a time for clients abroad, my own builds on the bench, and a weekly letter about what the work teaches.
In production
6 years
Sectors
Banking · Health · Insurance · IoT · Construction · Media
Stack
React · NestJS · Next.js · PostgreSQL
Company
DevLazar
Fig. 4 · Service record · Elevation
General notes · What I build by
Note 1
Perfect systems do not survive contact with reality. Resilient ones do.
Note 2
Build fast with AI, then read every line it wrote.
Note 3
Something runs every week. The big reveal is where projects go to die.
Now
→Shipping custom software with a small crew I trust.
→Re-reading Marcus Aurelius, a few pages each morning.
→Learning Rust, one crate at a time.
→Getting Low Bar through the App Store door.
Detail B · The reading shelf
Books I keep within reach of the bench.
Split between the technical and the timeless
A line I keep
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations, Book V
The company
Lazar Stanković PR DevLazar
A registered software development business in Vranje, Serbia, set up so that a company anywhere can commission work from one engineer with proper invoices, contracts and an NDA. The shop is the business; the notes and the bench are what it does when nobody is looking.
Elsewhere