Work
The ledger.
A brief overview of my work as a developer. Laravel BE engineer, into data orchestration and DevOps on the side. Some projects are not listed - I can talk about them in some capacity in private sessions.
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Case studies.
2026 - now
NextGEN SOLUTIONS
Pre-visit sales intelligence for a Slovenian B2B distributor
Cut the prep time before every field sales visit and drove competition-aware cross-sell across a 60k+ SKU catalog. Ahead of each scheduled client meeting, reps receive an auto-generated briefing - current account state, competitor activity and targeted product recommendations - instead of manually piecing it together from disconnected systems.
Under the hood: a Laravel + Claude system that consolidates multiple backend sources (CRM, internal sales and public procurement data) behind a common adapter layer, normalizes them and embeds the catalog and account data with Voyage multilingual embeddings into a pgvector store - chosen for solid retrieval quality on Slovenian text. Retrieval-augmented generation grounds each brief in that vector index, while custom Claude tools fetch live backend data at inference time rather than relying on stale exports. The whole assembly runs through a queued job pipeline, generating a Slovenian-language brief that’s delivered automatically two days before each visit.
LaravelPHPFilamentClaude APIVoyage AIPostgreSQLCaddy
2023 - 2026
Bragg (NASDAQ/TSX-listed)
Multi-tenant CMS for regulated iGaming
Made a multi-tenant Laravel CMS faster and safer to operate for an iGaming supplier licensed across 30+ regulated markets. 3 yrs on the platform team, doing large refactors and performance work under the uptime, security and compliance demands of licensed gaming.
Highlights: rewrote the WYSIWYG builder data layer from nested tree to flat (significantly faster, with component-level search, hooks, scheduled components and atomic saving) and refactored media handling to support multiple storage drivers with live synchronization.
LaravelPHPMariaDBPostgreSQLRedisDockerDocker SwarmKubernetesNginx
2019 - now
HS Plus d.o.o.
Data warehouse: TBs/month, ~700 schemas
The analytics backbone for 700+ shops: Fivetran-ingested, dbt (data build tool) pipelines processing terabytes of data a month across roughly 700 schemas, built and still maintained on a consulting basis. Started on Redshift, then migrated to BigQuery for better performance and lower cost.
FivetrandbtJinja2PythonSQLRedshiftBigQuery
2019 - 2023
HS Plus d.o.o.
RMA - returns across 24+ countries
End-to-end handling of everything a customer does with an order after checkout: package tracking, address and product changes before dispatch, cancellations, returns, warranty claims, purchase withdrawal and refunds.
Address mapping and normalization for 20+ courier integrations, refund flows, warranty logic, a custom forms system and syncs that pull from multiple backend databases and courier APIs for 700+ shops daily.
LaravelLaravel NovaVue.jsRedisLaravel HorizonMySQLAWS RDSAWS
2019 - 2023
HS Plus d.o.o.
Order processing at 60-100k orders/day
The queue backbone of a fast-scaling e-commerce group: millions of jobs and 60-100k orders per day on Laravel Horizon + Redis, running on EC2 behind nginx, with backfilling and failed-sync recovery keeping data consistent across systems.
Operated the databases underneath, including an RDS instance approaching 1 TB with multi-region replicas and read-only instances, plus hands-on query and cost optimization.
LaravelRedisMySQLAWS EC2AWS RDSNginxDocker
Work history.
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2026 - now
NextGEN SOLUTIONS
Freelance contractor
Laravel work and performance optimization for e-commerce, with AI integration (Claude API, RAG, vector databases and tool use) a growing share.
LaravelPHPClaude APIVoyage AIPostgreSQLDocker
2023 - 2026
Bragg Ljubljana
Backend web engineer, platform team
Multi-tenant CMS for a licensed iGaming supplier. See the case study ↑
LaravelPHPMariaDBPostgreSQLRedisDockerDocker SwarmKubernetesNginx
2019 - now
NextGEN SOLUTIONS for HS Plus
Warehouse consulting
The Fivetran → dbt → BigQuery pipelines, still maintained today on a consulting basis. See the case study ↑
FivetrandbtJinja2BigQueryGoogle Cloud
2019 - 2023
HS Plus d.o.o.
Full stack developer
Core developer on business-critical internal systems at one of Europe’s fastest-growing e-commerce groups (700+ shops, 24+ countries): the queue backbone, the RMA platform, the dbt warehouse, an automated NPS feedback service, plus cloud cost optimization and monitoring.
LaravelPHPVue.jsPythonRedisMongoDBAWSGoogle CloudDockerNginxdbtBigQueryWordPress
2021
DŽUNGLA PLANTS d.o.o.
dzungla-plants.hr / .com
New website for a plants e-commerce business. Highlight: a custom product-page upsell that offers pots matching the plant you are viewing. Also migrated the existing .com site and all of its data to the new instance.
WordPressPHPWooCommerce
Dec 2020
SEDEM, butik s konceptom
butiksedem.si
A local boutique shop went online: an evolving story of fashion and style.
WordPressPHPWooCommerce
2020
Storitve v turizmu Martina Majcen s.p.
Lill.si booking platform
An Airbnb-style booking site for a Slovenian tourism business and one of the largest highly-customised WordPress projects I have built: around 40k lines of custom code. Custom booking system, a custom Saferpay payment integration, iCal refresh, fiscalization (čebelica API), cancellation policies, two booking flows, a POS terminal for on-premise payments and email notifications.
WordPressPHPWooCommerce
Sep 2018
Birt d.o.o.
Messenger bot
Still can’t talk about it. A Facebook Messenger chatbot on a C# / ASP.NET Web API backend, SQL Server behind it, running on IIS - that much the NDA allows.
Messenger.NETSQL Server
Jun 2018
Pr’ Vaflju
My friend Miha Centrih and I opened a seasonal bubble-waffle shop at Lake Velenje. Different kind of stack.
May 2018
Zavod eMCe plac
emceplac.si
Multilingual WordPress site with events management and reservations, focused on story and culture.
WordPressPHP
Feb 2018
NOBEL, Sandra Bera s.p.
bambusmania.com
Magento 2 shop build.
MagentoPHP
Aug 2017
Makom trgovina d.o.o.
eko-cistila.si
WordPress site for a cleaning-products business.
WordPressPHP
May 2017
Mladinski center Velenje
kunigunda.si
Multilingual WordPress site with events management - and a new design every year.
WordPressPHP
Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
TRENDNET d.o.o.
MailRocker - full-stack developer
Email marketing service. Took over an unfinished AngularJS 1.3 + jQuery frontend with no API and no backend integration, integrated the Mosaico drag-and-drop newsletter builder and worked on the C# / ASP.NET Web API 2 backend on IIS.
AngularjQuery.NET
Earlier work.
The archive. Kept for the history, not the pitch.
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- 2018nextgen-solutions.xyzTook 2 yrs to make but hey, got my own website. You are looking at its successor.
- 2016ssk-klub.siSite for Šaleški študentski klub.
- 2016dmk.siFestival site for Dnevi mladih in kulture and my first ever production website.
- 2016anzesever.comSimple site for an artist.
- 2016lenelekse.comSimple site for an artist.
- 2014LetterSantaiOS app for printable Santa letters, built in Objective-C in two weeks. Rejected once, then Christmas was over.
- 2013TypedUp!Windows Store app for typing performance, written in C#. Born at a TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon.
- 2013Žepni koledarMy first paid project: a pocket-calendar generator for Windows. The client was my mom. She paid €50.
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