I help engineering teams design, build, and rescue backend systems — fintech ledgers, gov-tech platforms, and enterprise services across Europe and the US. 15+ years architecting systems that stay correct under load, audit, and growth.
Domain modelling, service boundaries, event flows, and the data layer for high-stakes platforms.
A senior second opinion on your codebase, scaling plan, and the trade-offs you are about to commit to.
Hands-on contract delivery in PHP/Laravel/Symfony and the Node/Nest/Next stack — via agency.
Systems and platforms I've built across fintech, gov-tech, and enterprise.
Cross-border electronic toll collection platform for JP Putevi Srbije - a distributed, high-availability system processing millions of transactions, with real-time payment integration and daily data synchronization across Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Croatia, and Republika Srpska. Also built the supporting ERP for invoicing, billing reconciliation, and reporting.
Modern governance platform - full-stack architecture, API layer, and backend services, with AI-driven automation that reduces manual workflow steps for end users.
Backend engineering for one of the world's largest online trading brokers (20M+ users): high-throughput trading systems, API development, and platform reliability.
Interview-prep courses, certification exam prep, and writing — the same experience I bring to client work.
Distributed systems are a tax you pay for scale you may never reach. Here is the checklist I run before splitting anything.
A field guide to message queues for teams who learned the hard way that "at least once" means exactly that.
The questions that actually separate a senior engineer from a confident one — and why most loops miss them.
Before you reach for a new datastore, here are the indexes, EXPLAIN habits, and schema choices that buy you years.