Vjekoslav Begović

SAP ABAP and technical consultant since 2005. Freelancer and owner of Infimum alfa d.o.o. since 2014.

About

Born in 1976 in Vinkovci, Croatia — now living and working in Samobor, Croatia.

Math graduate. SAP backend craftsman. Writes ABAP and sometimes C# and Javascript.
Works solo. Doesn’t "empower teams", just delivers what matters.

Why this site?

Because LinkedIn is flooded with:

• 👉 Emojis-as-bullets.
• One-sentence paragraphs.
• Achievement & cloud-certified spam.
• Words like "leadership", "synergy" and "impactful".

No thanks.

Projects

• ABAP (classic & OO). Prefer OO, but sometimes I end up staring at standard SAP code in the debugger — or the company has no budget to rewrite old code because it must comply to regulatory changes.
• Interfaces (IDOC, RFC, Web services, Proxies, ODBC/JDBC, Files — depending on how broken the other system is).
• B2B ordering portal — custom .NET + SAP integration. Replaced phone calls, emails and Excel files. Also replaced human errors with program errors — but at least it’s traceable.
• PO/PI integrations — because companies need middleware systems as single points of failure.
• EDI implementations — standard and custom-made IDOCs, where everyone swears by "the standard" until they start implementing it.
• Retail and WMS integration — handheld devices, label printers... and every last-minute change on go-live day.
• e-Invoice solutions — HR, RS, SI. Because why do business if the government can’t supervise it in real time?
• Fiscalization — Croatian, BiH, Montenegrin style. Each with its own flavor of bureaucracy.
• Other legal changes (plenty of them). Because why invest in innovation when you can spend money complying with ever-changing laws?
• Euro conversion — basically dividing numbers by a fixed rate. SAP made it look like a year-long project.
• SAP Upgrades (4.6C → ECC 6.0 → S/4) — touching (and swearing at) every Z-report ever written.
• System rollouts and occasionally post-rollout fusions — deploying SAP in one country at a time, each racing to outdo the others in regulatory absurdity, and sometimes merging them back like it was never a bad idea.
• Performance tuning — deleting other people’s code and writing a new one.
• Data archiving — and then reading data after it’s archived, because everyone wants the same functionality without the data.
• Company code migrations — removing entire companies from the system, quietly and permanently.
• SAPScripts, SmartForms, PDF forms, Word mail-merge integration — because regulators still trust paper more than data.
• Debugging since 2005 — sometimes mine, usually not.

When not coding

• Still coding — but for myself: mysolitaire.net.
• Reading economics — mostly Austrian, occasionally heretical.
• Investing — mostly losing money I thought I understood from reading economics.

Blog

Maybe. If inspiration strikes.

Contact

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