Boban Acimovic
Lead Backend Engineer at Deloitte Digital
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolBoban Acimovic is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect based in Munich with over 25 years in the software industry and 12 years of focused professional experience across backend engineering, cloud-native deployments, and DevOps. He has led backend architecture and technology decisions at Deloitte Digital, designing Protobuf APIs and Go microservices while integrating LLMs and RAG patterns into production workflows. As a freelancer and senior developer he supported enterprises such as Allianz, DHL, and EQS, blending hands-on PHP and Kubernetes expertise with pragmatic operational reliability. An active open-source contributor, he improved code generation and robustness in the well-known Propel2 PHP ORM, addressing tricky cases like special-character constant names. Boban combines deep legacy PHP/ORM experience with modern Go-based microservice design and AI integration, making him effective at migrating and modernizing complex systems. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. in Information Systems from the University of Belgrade and brings a track record of practical, cross-stack problem solving in large-scale environments.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematical and Technical Assistant, Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematical and Technical Assistant, Mathematics and Computer Science at Gymnasium in PozarevacDipl.-Ing. for Information Systems (MS equivalent), Computer Science, Dipl.-Ing. for Information Systems (MS equivalent), Computer Science at University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Sciences
English, German, Serbian
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Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
php10
code-generation10
orm10
testing10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
propelorm/Propel2
Nov 2014 - Sep 2015
Propel2 is an open-source high-performance Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for modern PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 3 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Boban primarily contributed to the `propel2` repository, an ORM for PHP. Their work focused on enhancing the code generation process and improving the handling of generated constants related to inheritance keys within the ORM. This involved modifying the `QuickBuilder` to suppress include errors during code generation and refining the `ConstantNameTest` to ensure the correct generation of constant names, especially those containing special characters. These changes directly improved the robustness of the code generation and testing process.
relationalphpmodern-phpperformancemapping
acim/oxeye
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
Sapper Universal/Isomorphic Web Application Skeleton Project Implementing Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
Contributions:407 commits, 207 PRs, 389 pushes in 11 months
accountingauthorizationskeletonskeleton-applicationauthentication
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