# Tihomir Opačić

Founder and CEO of Orange Hill. Software builder for more than 20 years, AI consultant and educator, and since 2026 working on data for robot learning (physical AI). Based between Vienna and Belgrade. Speaks Serbian and English.

## In short

- **Founded Orange Hill in 2007**, a small senior software studio, today AI-native: most of its delivery runs on AI agents, directed and reviewed by people. Orange Hill Development d.o.o. in Belgrade and Orange Hill GmbH in Vienna.
- **20+ years of building software**: web and mobile applications, APIs and content platforms for national institutions, telecoms and global brands.
- **Helped build the Laravel community in Serbia** through conference talks, meetups and workshops. Orange Hill was among the first companies in Serbia to ship responsive web design, single-page applications and Jamstack sites.
- **Created Photon CMS**, a headless content management platform that powers backends for the Serbian Chamber of Commerce, Telekom Srbija and Bayanat AI.
- **AI education and workshops**: runs hands-on AI workshops for leadership and development teams, built around a working prototype of the team's own most painful workflow rather than slides.
- **AI process automation**: designs and ships production automations (document intelligence, lead qualification, multi-agent systems, CRM and browser automation) on the client's real data and tools.
- **Robotics and physical AI (new in 2026)**: building a capture and processing pipeline for human motion data (egocentric video of real work) for companies that train robots. See `robotics-and-physical-ai.md`.
- **Community builder**: founder and host of the Physical AI Belgrade meetup and the Closed Loop podcast; long-time host of IT community podcasts in Serbia. See `community.md`.

## Roles today

- **CEO, Orange Hill** (Orange Hill Development d.o.o., Belgrade, and Orange Hill GmbH, Vienna).
- **CTO, SmrtStats**, a sports data and analytics company.

## How he works

- Starts from the real problem and a working prototype, not from a strategy deck.
- Says so when something is better solved without AI, with a simpler automation, or by the client's own team.
- Pushes clients toward independence: the goal of an engagement is that the team can build and extend things on its own.
- Writes about AI and how it changes software and work in the Dispatches on [orangehill.ai/en/dispatches](https://orangehill.ai/en/dispatches).

## Contact

- Email: tihomir.opacic@orangehill.ai
- Phone (Serbia): +381 64 167 7367
- Phone (Austria): +43 667 446 8221
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tihomir-opacic
- Website: https://orangehill.ai (contact form: https://orangehill.ai/en/contact)