Dusan Maric
PHP Developer at First Beat Media Inc.
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolDusan Maric is a pragmatic PHP developer based in Novi Sad with a decade of professional experience and over 20 years of hands-on involvement in software and web development. He has built and maintained backend systems across startups and agencies, currently contributing to First Beat Media while previously supporting projects at TIAC, A51, and freelance clients. Dusan combines traditional LAMP-stack expertise with modern DevOps sensibilities—evidenced by his contributions to the widely used Laravel Homestead project where he updated MongoDB PHP driver support for PHP 8 compatibility. He is comfortable operating across infrastructure and application layers, routinely handling dependency updates, scripting, and operational tooling to keep systems production-ready. Known for steady, practical problem-solving, he pairs an informatics background from Univerzitet u Novom Sadu with a track record of long-term maintenance and incremental modernization.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Univerzitet u Novom Sadu
English, German, Serbian
Github Skills (13)
sh10
php10
script10
shell10
devops10
mongodb10
scripting10
mongodb-database10
dockers9
docker9
configuration-management8
laravel-mix8
laravel8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/homestead
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
DevOps & Back-end Engineer
DevOps & Back-end EngineerContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dusan primarily focused on updating and managing the MongoDB PHP driver within the Laravel Homestead environment. They were responsible for bumping the driver versions, including updates to support PHP8 and newer releases. Their contributions involved modifying shell scripts, specifically the `mongodb.sh` file, to incorporate the updated driver versions and ensure compatibility, reflecting a focus on maintaining the project's backend dependencies and operational setup.
themaric/homestead
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:7 pushes in 11 months
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