Available

Senior backend engineering, from first release to production scale.

I design and build backends, cloud infrastructure and AI features for agencies and product teams, in Laravel, Node/TypeScript and AWS.

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14 years: building production software in Laravel / PHP
Lead engineer: on a multitenant SaaS platform in production
Hundreds: of daily users on an operations platform I built
AWS: Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Services

What I work on

The part of a product customers never see but always feel: the backend, the infrastructure underneath it, and more and more often, the AI features on top.

Backend engineering

APIs and background systems that stay maintainable as the product and the team grow.

Laravel, Node.js / TypeScript, Python (FastAPI)
API design, multitenancy, database-per-tenant
Queues, scheduled jobs and data pipelines
Subscriptions and usage billing on Stripe
OAuth integrations with third-party SaaS

Cloud & infrastructure

AWS infrastructure as code, sized for the stage you are at, with nothing done by hand.

Terraform for VPC, EKS, Aurora / RDS, SQS, S3
Kubernetes, Docker, autoscaling on queue depth
CI/CD on GitHub Actions with OIDC, no static keys
Monitoring, tracing and alerting
Cost reviews and clean-up of existing accounts

AI features in production

For teams whose AI prototype works and now has to work for every customer.

RAG over each customer’s own documents, kept separate
Streaming responses and agent tool integrations
Token metering, prompt caching and cost control
LLM tracing with Langfuse and OpenTelemetry
Claude and OpenAI APIs, LangGraph

For agencies

Senior capacity under your brand

When a client project needs more backend, cloud or AI depth than your team has free, I join as an extra senior engineer, without the cost and delay of a full-time hire.

White-label

I work under your brand, in your repositories, tools and process.

Non-solicit

I never contact your clients directly, and I’m happy to sign a non-solicit agreement.

Flexible engagement

Part-time or project-based, with overlap in US or European working hours.

Senior from day one

I can own a backend or infrastructure workstream end to end, not just tickets.

Selected work

Case studies

Names and identifying details are left out; the architecture and results are real.

Ongoing engagement · Lead backend & infrastructure engineer

Multitenant SaaS platform with AI features

A B2B platform where every customer's data, knowledge and AI usage has to stay separate and predictable. I owned the backend architecture and the cloud infrastructure.

LaravelNode.js / TypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLRedisVector search

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Multi-year engagement · Lead backend developer

Operations platform for a multi-office services company

One system for people, projects and money, replacing spreadsheets across several offices. I designed the data model and built most of the backend.

LaravelPHPMySQLRedisReactTypeScript

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About

Hands-on, with a leader’s view of trade-offs

I’m a backend and platform engineer based in Serbia (CET). I’ve built software professionally for 14 years, mostly in Laravel and PHP, and more recently in Node/TypeScript, Python and AWS.

I’ve also led engineering teams and client projects, so I’m comfortable with stakeholders, estimates and trade-offs. Today I prefer to spend my time on code, architecture and infrastructure.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Contact

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