SLOBODAN
Available for new projects

Full-Stack
Engineer &
SDET

I build production-grade web platforms and automated testing frameworks. 20+ years of shipping reliable software — from backend architecture to release stability.

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20+
Years of experience
10+
monthly users, zero outages
300+
QA students trained
34%
Test coverage built from 0%
01 — About

Builder. Tester.
Problem Solver.

I'm Slobodan Todorov, a full-stack engineer and SDET based in Novi Sad, Serbia. I write the software and the systems that verify it works.

My core stack is PHP / Laravel on the backend and Vue.js on the frontend, with deep expertise in test automation using Playwright, Selenium, and Cypress. I'm equally comfortable designing a scalable multilingual CMS as I am wiring up a CI/CD pipeline or leading a blended QA team.

Over 12+ years I've worked with remote teams across Europe and the US — from Swedish traffic schools and BENELUX real estate platforms to Denver-based field service startups. I bring senior-level ownership to every engagement: clear communication, end-to-end thinking, and a bias toward shipping stable, maintainable software.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm cooking something elaborate, buried in a sci-fi novel, or losing at board games with friends.

Location
Serbia, Remote worldwide
Email
Contact
Languages
Serbian (Native) · English (Fluent)
Availability
B2B Contract · Remote · Part-time or Full-time
02 — Skills

What I bring
to the table.

⬡
Full-Stack Development
Building production-grade web platforms
// Backend
PHP Laravel Symfony CodeIgniter Node.js Python REST APIs
// Frontend
Vue.js JavaScript TypeScript HTML5 CSS3 Responsive Design
// Databases
MySQL MariaDB PostgreSQL MS SQL Redis
// Integrations
Salesforce Stripe / Bambora AWS S3 TalkDesk Swish Chrome Extensions
⬡
SDET & Quality Engineering
Automated testing frameworks & CI/CD
// Test Automation
Playwright Selenium Cypress Mocha Chai Supertest RestAssured XPath
// DevOps & Infra
Docker CI/CD AWS Nginx Apache Linux Git
03 — Experience

20+ years of
shipping software.

May 2024
— present
FieldFlō · Denver, Colorado (Remote)
Software Developer in Test
  • Built a scalable Playwright + TypeScript framework from scratch, taking automation coverage from 0% → 34% within weekly release cycles.
  • Delivered comprehensive E2E and API integration suites with Mocha, Chai, and Supertest — directly reducing post-deployment incidents.
  • Integrated test suites into Dockerized CI/CD pipelines, cutting feedback loop time for a 6-person blended QA team.
  • Designed a reusable test case library reducing duplicated QA effort and cutting onboarding time for new team members.
Playwright TypeScript Mocha Chai Supertest Docker CI/CD
Jul 2024
— May 2025
Confidential Client · Netherlands (Remote)
Software Engineer
  • Full rewrite of a mission-critical real estate enterprise platform serving 300+ businesses across BENELUX and Germany.
  • Designed a scalable multilingual CMS supporting unlimited languages (launched in 3), eliminating manual localization errors.
  • Built a high-performance AWS S3 ↔ on-premise data sync tool with intelligent load balancing, improving reliability and transfer speed.
Laravel Vue.js Python AWS S3 Salesforce
Feb 2023
— May 2024
Boopro · Niš, Serbia (Remote)
Software Engineer
  • Developed a national-scale traffic school platform serving 90+ schools and 10,000+ monthly users across Sweden — zero reported outages.
  • Engineered interactive quizzes, Swish/Bambora payment flows, a custom cashier dashboard, and analytics tools for 90+ administrators.
  • Built a Chrome extension and integrated multiple third-party APIs to enhance the student experience.
Laravel Vue.js Swish Bambora
Oct 2021
— May 2023
EPTI Factory · Stockholm, Sweden (Remote)
Senior PHP Developer
  • Built and scaled a collaboration platform serving 20,000+ models, photographers, and brands — bookings, payments, and social integration.
  • Architected a reusable QA automation framework adopted by one team and in active rollout to a second before the company ceased operations.
  • Full UI and API test coverage with Java, Selenium, Playwright, Maven, and RestAssured.
Laravel Redis Docker Sphinx Search Selenium Playwright Java
Nov 2020
— Oct 2021
Tarkett · Novi Sad, Serbia
PHP Specialist
  • Full-stack development on international B2B platforms across 3 markets (Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan) for a global flooring manufacturer.
  • Introduced end-to-end and functional test coverage with Cypress, establishing a developer-owned QA process across the team.
Symfony Vue.js Cypress AWS Elasticsearch
Mar 2013
— Nov 2020
PLANet Systems Group · Novi Sad, Serbia
Senior Software Developer
  • Led full-stack development across 3 industries: scientific publishing, logistics, and lumber — 7+ years of end-to-end project ownership.
  • Designed and maintained business management systems for a nationwide trucking brokerage covering invoicing, freight optimization, and load scheduling.
  • Developed Selenium-based automation for a scholarly publishing platform serving hundreds of thousands of authors and reviewers globally.
  • Acted as senior developer and client-facing lead, managing stakeholder expectations across a 6-month US engagement.
Laravel Vue.js Python Selenium Salesforce TalkDesk AWS
Feb 2012
— Jan 2013
TIAC Group · Novi Sad, Serbia
Senior PHP Developer
  • Collaborated directly with a client's in-house engineering team on a full-featured event and resource management SaaS product — contributing across backend, frontend, and database layers.
  • Served as the senior developer on the agency side, mentoring a junior colleague while working alongside the client's own lead developer and senior engineer.
PHP MySQL HTML CSS JavaScript
Dec 2010
— Feb 2012
Just Dot / Themes Kingdom · Novi Sad, Serbia
PHP / Web Developer
  • Delivered three bespoke PHP platforms simultaneously for medium-sized clients, each with a custom-built CMS and translated from designer-provided mockups into production-ready code.
  • Built a long-running cosmetics retail platform, maintained and extended continuously throughout the engagement.
  • Developed a full dealership management platform for an automobile client — covering vehicle inventory, service scheduling, and back-office tooling.
  • Built an equine recruitment and jobs board with advanced candidate search, role filtering, and profile matching.
  • All three clients were ongoing relationships, with active post-launch maintenance and feature development.
PHP MySQL Custom CMS HTML CSS JavaScript
Jan 2009
— Mar 2011
Radio-Television of Vojvodina · Novi Sad, Serbia
PHP / Web Developer & Administrator
  • Solely designed and built a full video-on-demand platform from the ground up — scaling it from a single TV channel to 20+ channels, with multilingual support, automated video conversion, basic editing tools, and per-episode commenting and ratings.
  • Integrated Alfanum TTS software to automatically synthesise every published news article into audio, making the entire news archive accessible to users with visual impairments.
  • Contributed to a small team handling ongoing development and maintenance of the main public-facing website.
PHP MySQL TTS Integration Video Streaming Linux
Sep 2007
— May 2008
SAUT Professional · Novi Sad, Serbia
VB Developer / Web Developer / Network Administrator
  • Developed a Visual Basic application to automate product data extraction and prepare it for import into the company's inventory management system, eliminating a manual, error-prone process.
  • Built and maintained the company's PHP-based website and e-commerce store.
  • Administered a small office network including workstations, routers, and network printers.
Visual Basic PHP MySQL HTML LAN Administration
Apr 2005
— Aug 2006
Lucky Line · Novi Sad, Serbia
Visual Basic Developer
  • First professional development role — built a complete dog-racing software suite that was commercially sold and deployed across multiple casino locations, covering real-time race management, result processing, and display output.
  • Contributed to a team developing electronic roulette devices, gaining early exposure to event-driven, hardware-adjacent software.
Visual Basic Real-time Systems Casino / Gaming
04 — Projects

Things I've built
for myself.

🔗
SKR.rs — URL Shortener
Built from scratch in pure PHP with MySQL. Running continuously since 2010 with near-100% uptime. Processed over 360,000 shortened URLs, with full REST API, spam detection, fraud filtering, and a complete admin back office.
PHP · MySQL · REST API · Since 2010 →
🎓
QA Engineer Course — Rajak School
Co-designed and delivered a hands-on QA Engineer course across 20+ cohorts, training 300+ students for entry-level roles. Curriculum covered Git, XPath, Selenium WebDriver, Node.js, Mocha/Chai, and HTML/CSS in testing contexts.
300+ Students · 20+ Cohorts · 2017–2024
05 — Endorsements

What colleagues
say about me.

"

I had pleasure to work with Slobodan on the huge project - a rewrite of a social network for connecting models, photographers, and modelling agencies. Lots of old and difficult to read code where he was giving his best to translate it to clean, readable, working one. Slobodan is very reliable programer, optimistic person, and a hard worker. He has a keen eye for the details, great knowledge, and experience. His knowledge about PHP, PHP frameworks, API programming, and databases is vast and still he is always eager to learn more. If I am to start a new project from the scratch or rewrite existing one, Slobodan would be my developer of choice.

Jadranko Gudan
VP of Engineering · EPTI Factory
"

Slobodan is a responsible and committed developer willing to help and share his wide knowledge with colleagues. As a senior developer he proved himself as a trustworthy person who conscientiously worked on his duties. He is a great team player.

Nada Šobot
Colleague · TIAC
"

Surprisingly diligent and dedicated worker! Skilled and task-oriented. Knows how to listen but also suggest and come up with new ideas and effective solutions. A developer who needs to develop all the capabilities and potentials he's got!

Dejan Marjanović
Manager · Radio-Television of Vojvodina
Open to new projects

Let's build something
that lasts.

Whether you have a greenfield project, a legacy system that needs love, or a QA process that needs automating — I'm up for the challenge.

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