Oliver Maksimović
Lead Software Engineer at Mukuru
Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia
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Top SchoolOliver Maksimović is a Lead Software Engineer based in Novi Sad with over a decade of professional experience modernizing and optimizing PHP applications since 2006. He specializes in refactoring legacy codebases, eliminating technical debt, improving performance, and raising test coverage to make systems more maintainable and robust. At Mukuru he progressed from senior engineer to lead, guiding architecture and delivery for production services, and previously built cloud management and payment flows at Active Collab and MENU. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed substantive improvements to Phan, a well-regarded PHP static analyzer, focusing on compatibility checks and code-quality enhancements. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he prefers concrete outreach from recruiters that clearly describe the role and expected outcomes. His background in mechatronics and graphic engineering hints at a systems-oriented mindset and a practical, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Mechatronics; Graphic Engineering and Design, Mechatronics; Graphic Engineering and Design at Univerzitet u Novom SaduSSC "Vuk Karadzic", Lopare
English, Serbian
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Github Skills (14)
php10
static-analysis10
software-quality10
analyzer10
debug9
htaccess9
testing8
git6
nginx6
laravel6
postgresql6
regex6
traits6
mysql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phan/phan
May 2018 - Aug 2019
Phan is a static analyzer for PHP. Phan prefers to avoid false-positives and attempts to prove incorrectness rather than correctness.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 20 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the static analysis tool Phan by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. Their work included adding support for custom vendor directories, improving the compatibility checks for PHP versions, and fixing issues related to handling negative string offsets. They also refactored code related to constructor visibility and implemented checks for PHP4-style constructors. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving code quality and compatibility.
static-analyzerphananalysisphptla
maksimovic/jose-php
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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