Petar Paar
Principal Architect at Microsoft
Croatia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetar Paar is a Principal Architect with over a decade of experience designing and shipping web and mobile components for Microsoft 365, currently focused on Copilot integrations. He blends front-end expertise in React, Apollo, Relay and GraphQL with full‑stack .NET/C# and emerging GenAI solutions, leading cross-application efforts across Outlook, Teams, SharePoint and other M365 surfaces. Known for pragmatically "getting web shit done," he pairs hands‑on implementation with architectural leadership to scale components in complex, product‑integrated environments. Based in Oslo with roots in Croatia, he also brings a disciplined academic background in software engineering and an unusual early training as a clarinetist, reflecting a creative, detail-oriented approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
General-program secondary school (gymnasium), General-program secondary school (gymnasium) at Gimnazija A.G.MatošMSc Software Engineering and Information Systems, MSc Software Engineering and Information Systems at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuMSc Software Engineering, MSc Software Engineering at Mälardalen UniversityMusician Clarinetist Music, Musician Clarinetist Music at Glazbena škola Ferdo Livadić
English, Croatian, Norwegian, German
Github Skills (32)
typescript10
redux10
webpack10
apollo-client10
flux10
graphql-client10
apollographql10
css-modules10
boilerplate10
tslint10
react10
caching9
gulp9
graphql9
angular8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pepaar/typescript-webpack-react-redux-boilerplate
Sep 2015 - Jun 2017
React and Redux with TypeScript
Contributions:62 commits, 32 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reactreduxtypescriptfluxwebpack
pepaar/tslint-loader
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 months
webpack-pluginwebpack-loadertslintwebpackloader
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