Mirza Pasic is an associate professor and data scientist with 12 years of experience bridging industrial engineering, machine learning and software development from Sarajevo. He completed a PhD at age 25 on neural network models for air quality prediction and holds perfect academic grades, earning two Golden Badge awards for top student performance. At the University of Sarajevo he teaches advanced statistics, data science and neural networks while serving as vice-dean for international relations and contributing to open-source backend work on a popular Laravel repositories package. His profile blends rigorous academic research with practical engineering—implementing repository patterns, criteria queries and relation handling for maintainable backend systems. Outside academia he’s a committed endurance athlete (eight half marathons across European capitals), avid skier and guitarist, reflecting a disciplined, creative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Industrial Engineering and Management, PhD, Industrial Engineering and Management at Mašinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu
Laravel Repositories is a package for Laravel 5 which is used to abstract the database layer. This makes applications much easier to maintain.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:53 commits, 41 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Mirza primarily contributed to the back-end implementation of the Laravel repositories package. Their work focused on defining and implementing essential methods for database interactions, including create, update, delete, find, and all, within the `Repository` class. They also added functionality for criteria queries and attaching relations to models, enhancing the package's functionality. Furthermore, they refactored and updated the code by removing ModelTrait to simplify the code.
An extended PostgreSQL driver for Laravel 5 with support for some aditional PostgreSQL data types: hstore, uuid, jsonb.
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 37 PRs in 7 years 11 months
extendedjsonbphpdata-typespostgresql-driver
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