I am a motivated, young IT specialist and software engineer with a clear goal to grow in the IT sector. Currently 27 years old, I've devoted the last 13 of them to constant IT activities, the latest one being my role as CTO at Graosoft. I read, write, understand and speak English fluently. My hobbies include electronics, mechanics, cars, audio gear and DJing, and Minecraft.
My work at Graosoft includes but is not limited to planning the architectural direction of projects, supporting members of the technical team, reviewing and providing feedback for their technical implementations, development, solving technical problems, process automation.
I currently work at Nuvolo as part of the team behind the company's Real Estate Asset Management solution. My main day-to-day work includes developing and maintaining backend business logic, hosted by ServiceNow and also a frontend interface powered by React.
I started off my professional career as part of Zoiper's Android team. Me and my colleagues would work to maintain and improve the company's VOIP softphone for Android.
For the latter part of my stay at Zoiper, I became the lead developer behind Banafo's Express JS backend, working and developing a microservice-based architecture. I also have a contribution in some parts of the project's React frontend.
Summer of 2016. I felt confident enough to offer my services as a developer on the freelance market. Through this period, I developed one WordPress small company website, one relatively big project based on PHP/Codeigniter and an online store, based on Python/Django. Having in mind my work conditions, that is just about all I can say about those projects.
Throughout my entire high school education, I participated annually in NOIT with various developments and projects. My project in combination with my perfect theoretical preparation brought me a silver medal from my first year in the competition. My next big success was when in December of 2017 I participated in the NET "John Atanasov" where my project "ChildStatus" brought me first place in my category. I've also earned other awards and recognitions during those years.
High school was a very valuable period for my soft skills too. Many of the teachers would frequently come to me for technical advice. The school has an active IT team that participates in competitions and such. Part of the newcomer students' preparation was my responsibility. Most of the time I was the one introducing them to programming. This taught me to work with inexperienced people and express complex concepts in an understandable fashion.
I hold a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, issued by the Plovdiv University.
PGI is where my interest towards IT evolved into a full on career direction. During my time there, the school stood out as the leading high school in town for studying IT and my devotion and motivation were a big part of the reason.
The single most important thing I got from my education at the Petar Beron Elementary Shool is fluency in English and a basic level of Russian. That's also where my experience as a web developer started because it's where I met HTML for the first time.
The Android-related items in my technology stack include Java, Kotlin, Some parts of Jetpack, Dagger2, RxJava2, MVP, MVVM, Butterknife, Room, Retrofit 2, FCM, design patterns and more. Designing the architecture by which apps are written is something I've got an intense interest in.
I have rich experience with the basic frontend kit - HTML, CSS, JS, jQuery. This allows me to build a fully functional frontend interface, based on given conditions.
A good portion of my IT activity in general is centered around backend developments.
ServiceNow is an enterprise platform with a wide range of capabilities, features and applications. My experience with it includes the following:
Other tools and methodologies I have experience with:
My five years of experience in NOIT have thought me to speak in front of a crowd and present ideas and projects while adapting my presentation style in accordance to the audience.
I have the skill to read between the lines and communicate until I get to the essence what somebody is saying. This ability tends to be especially useful in a conference setting where a sumarized conclusion must be formulated.
I find a common language with a variety of different types of people. Communicating has rarely, if ever, been a problem for me.
I can work very efficiently and with high coordination in intense environments and under pressure, but work in such conditions exhausts me and I prefer to stay away from it.
I adopt new concepts and technologies very quickly.
I've been teaching and mentoring people in earlier stages in their careers since the very beginning of my own. Younger students and my peers say that I explain things in understandable ways.
I don't find any difficulty working with all kinds of people.
Many times, people are worried to ask "stupid" questions, which, while understandable, leads to big issues and lots of time wasted. I ask all the questions necessary, when necessary. Not to say I don't try to figure some things out by myself, but I make a concious effort to ask when I know someone else has/can solve a given problem faster/better than me.
My first major appearance in IT was back in 2014. I participated in NOIT. My project Our Europe was placed third under the "website" category. That in combination with my excellent performance in the theoretical exam brought me second place in the general ranking and thus a silver medal.
My most successful year yet was 2017. My success started with my excellent performance at NOIT with my project Remind Me! which was my first time meeting android development. The project was placed sixth in its category. That in combination with my excellent performance on the test brought me a 6.00 mark.
The success in NOIT earned me an invitation to the competition for the "John Atanasov" award, organized by the administration of the Bulgarian presidency.
I marked the end of my most successful year with a first place in the NET "John Atanasov" with the project "ChildStatus" which is still under active development. The gist of the project is that parents can ask for their children's status and they have extra options for specific situations. In case of interest in the project, you can take a look at the presentation
