Slavko Babić

Projects

A few things I have built, told as stories rather than tech lists — the problem, the decisions behind the solution, and what I took away. Presented by domain, without client names.

Hospitality / travel

Hospitality PMS & channel manager

A property management system and channel manager that keeps availability, rates and reservations in sync across OTAs and GDS — where a single mismatch means an overbooking.

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • MariaDB
  • Redis
  • Docker
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E-commerce / data

Product data normalization system

An automated pipeline for collecting, deduplicating and enriching product data — turning a 90-minute manual entry job into 10 minutes, for 150+ back-office users.

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • MySQL
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Healthcare / SaaS

Healthcare workforce SaaS platform

Architecture and CI/CD for a growing workforce product — moving a change-resistant legacy codebase to a microservices architecture with a shared component library, without stopping delivery.

  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • React
  • Microservices
  • CI/CD
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E-commerce

E-commerce marketplace

A marketplace built end to end, where search, catalogue and delivery logistics had to feel like one product rather than three integrations.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Laravel
  • TypeScript
  • Vue.js
  • Elasticsearch
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E-commerce / interactive

Custom device cover configurator

A dependency-free configurator that lets customers design a cover for their exact device and add it to the cart — engineered in vanilla JavaScript to stay smooth on old, low-powered phones.

  • Vanilla JavaScript
  • Laravel
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Fintech / trading

Cryptocurrency exchange

A secure, high-performance crypto exchange — order handling, matching and account flows engineered to stay fast and correct under bursty load while protecting user funds.

  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Docker
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HR / marketplace

Career portal

A platform connecting candidates and employers — listings, applications and matching in one place — with search relevance as the hard problem at its centre.

  • Symfony
  • Vue.js
  • OpenSearch
  • MySQL
  • Docker

Status: In active development

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Healthcare / scheduling

Patient scheduling platform

A full-stack scheduling platform for a therapy practice — booking patients against the intersection of therapist, room, device and time-off availability, with role-based access from front desk to therapist.

  • TypeScript
  • Express
  • Prisma
  • PostgreSQL
  • React

Status: In active development

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Fintech / personal tooling

A self-built invoicing tool

A small Symfony command-line tool that generates my freelance invoices as PDFs and emails them — built to erase a monthly chore, with the quirks of Serbian invoicing baked in.

  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • Doctrine
  • MariaDB
  • mPDF
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