Sulejman Ćatibušić

He was born in Sarajevo, in the year 1957. He wrote his first computer program, as a highschool student of II Gimnazija Sarajevo, was written on the ICL-1902 computer using FORTRAN. The code was written in 1972 by hand, and transferred to the computer via punched cards.
Later, as a Computer Science student of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Sarajevo, he was in touch with computers of that era: PDP-11 (operating system RSX) and VAX-750 (operating system VMS).

First several years of his career are marked by the embedded systems: system for fuel consumption control in combat aircrafts (“Orao” and “Galeb” for Yugoslavian Air Forces) and autopilot for combat aircrafts (“Orao” for YU Air Forces and “Vultur” for Romanian Air Forces).
From 1988 to 1992 he worked on Management Information System for Unis Tours Sarajevo, and thus covered more than 100 tourist and rent-a-car branches all over Yugoslavia with Local Area Networks. All branches were connected in WAN.

During the 1992-1995 war, he was a member of the BH Army.
After the war he continued his journey in tech industry. At the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, he was a teaching assistant for the “Basics of Computing” and “Programming Techniques”. At the same time, he was the manager of the information system department at the public company BH Post.
Since 2013, he is a part of successful young company “Mistral Technologies” from Sarajevo, first as a CTO, then as a Head of Education. In Mistral, he runs the “Gigi School of Coding”. Through this school, 57 young people have, so far, shaped their career path.
He is the father of two sons (Faik and Namik – both successful young developers).
Sulejman is also a lecturer at the CSIS department of SSST, teaching the course “Compiler Design”.