Summary
At Quickbase, I work within a multi-domain team with a primary focus on backend development, championing AI-assisted, automation-first engineering to maximize personal and team delivery. With over a decade of experience as a software engineer, I have a proven track record in delivering successful projects, service oriented architectures, and automated testing frameworks.
My expertise in cloud and full stack technologies, combined with configuring architectures as code, makes me a strong fit for organizations looking to improve development throughput and integrate best practices. I am committed to meticulous planning, forward-thinking strategies, and empathetic leadership.
I thrive on challenging established processes to boost productivity and deliver superior, robust products and services.Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Working within a multi-domain team across multiple repositories with a primary focus on backend development. Championing a culture of AI-assisted, automation-first engineering to maximize personal and team delivery.
- Deeply integrated Claude and GitHub Copilot into the day-to-day development workflow.
- Driving smart tooling initiatives across the full engineering lifecycle.
- Contributing across multiple product domains and codebases.
- Primarily operating through the terminal with a strong emphasis on scripting and CLI tooling.
Senior Cloud Automation Engineer
Acting as a client consultant and technical lead, designing and implementing tailored cloud automation solutions for enterprise clients across VMware's product ecosystem.
- Creating custom cloud automation solutions for VMware's products.
- Leading teams of developers.
- Client communication.
- Supporting the pre-sales and architecture teams.
Senior Software Engineer
Architecture and development of manual and automated tools to ensure data and configuration quality for a project in logistics, using .NET, Angular and Azure.
- Creating a new services driven architecture to support the functionality migration of an old monolith.
- Configuring the application's architecture as code on top of Azure.
- Configuring the Kubernetes and Docker deployments.
- Documenting the design, architectural and structural decisions.
- Setting up a new automated testing framework.
- Migrating and extending the existing in-house manual testing framework.
Dance Instructor
Teaching Lindy Hop, Charleston, Solo Jazz and other Swing Dances at Dance Station Plovdiv. Organizing social events, parties and performances.
- Teaching Swing Dances.
- Organizing Events.
- Organizing Parties.
Senior Software Engineer
Architecture, development and DevOps of an internal tool for the IT department of Adidas, using .NET and AWS.
- Migrating a legacy .NET Framework application to .NET.
- Reviewing and optimizing the application's processes and workflows.
- Overseeing the successful data, functionality and user migration.
- Setting up the deployment pipelines, using Jenkins.
- Developing new features.
- Supporting the legacy application, until decommissioning.
Software Developer
Development and functionality support for a pilot payments product. Improvements on the main application's Segment tracking capabilities, using Ruby and React.
- Developing and supporting Bank Integration capabilities.
- Developing Segment tracking capabilities.
- Working on Dext's Payment product.
- Mastering Ruby, React and GraphQL.
Technical Lead
Technically leading a team of developers to build from a successful PoC application, scale up and migrate existing functionality.
- Engineering from the ground up a complex multi-layer application.
- Architecturing and structuring the cloud infrastructure.
- Organizing and keeping a thorough technical documentation.
- Designing and supporting core application systems.
- Optimising core and long-running server operations.
- Helping with the immersion of new team members.
- Technological and business knowledge sharing.
- Developing new features.
- Hot fixes and Bug fixes.
- Code reviews.
- Deployments.
Senior Software Engineer
Architecture and development of a pilot application in healthcare and education, using .NET, Angular and AWS. Continued development and support of the legacy application.
- Leading a sceleton crew of developers to build a PoC application.
- Developing a dashboard to showcase UI and performance improvements.
- Structuring the application layers.
- Designing and supporting core application systems.
- Building on top of a life production read-only replica.
Software Engineer
Development and optimization of a long-running project in healthcare and education, using ASP.NET, AngularJS and AWS.
- Helping with the immersion of new team members.
- Optimising server and database operations.
- Unit and integration testing.
- Developing new features.
- Hot fixes and Bug fixes.
Software Developer
Development of a pilot iPad application, using ASP.NET. Migration of a healthcare and education project's legacy Web Forms code base to ASP.NET, AngularJS and AWS.
- Unit and integration testing.
- Data validation scripts and alarms.
- Improving the dev toolkit.
- Developing new features.
- Bug fixes.
Junior Software Developer
Praparation for the "Microsoft MCSD: Web Applications" certification track. Development of a project management solution for a cloud based platform, using ASP.NET.
- Preparing for the Microsoft MCSD: Web Applications Certifications.
- Developing new features.
- Bug fixes.
Technitian
As a security and network technitian at 3S SOT Sliven, I was engaged in constructing and maintaining security, video surveillance and fire alert systems.
- Constructing radio security systems.
- Maintaining fire alert systems.
- Installing video surveillance.
- Supporting the company's computer network.
Skills & Tools
Primary Skills
- Cloud Architecture
- VMware
- AWS
- Azure
- Application Architecture
- C#
- .NET
- ASP.NET
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Angular
- React
- SQL
- Leadership
- System Architecture
- Agile Methodologies
- Continuous Integration
Complimentary Skills
- MVC
- Web Api
- GraphQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- NoSQL
- Entity Framework
- Dapper
- Bootstrap
- HTML
- CSS
- SASS
- jQuery
- Git
- Code Reviews
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
Other Skills
- Assembly
- C
- C++
- Matlab
- Python
- Ruby
- Ruby on Rails
- WPF
- WCF
- RFID
- Motion Capture
- Human Computer Interaction
- Leap
- Unity
- Unreal Engine
Education
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MCs in Computer EngineeringTechnical University of Sofia Branch Plovdiv2016 - 2019
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ResearchTokyo University04.2018 - 11.2018
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BCs in Computer EngineeringTechnical University of Sofia Branch Plovdiv2009 - 2014
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Software EngineeringTelerik Academy2013 - 2014
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Informatics and EnglishHigh School of Mathematics and Sciences "Dobri Chintulov" Sliven2004 - 2009
Certification
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VMware vSphere 7 ProfessionalLinkedIn
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Complete C# Unity Developer 2Dgamedev.tv
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect - AssociateAmazon
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The Fundamentals of Digital MarketingGoogle
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MCSA - Web ApplicationsMicrosoft
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MCSD - App BuilderMicrosoft
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Developing Azure and Web ServicesMicrosoft
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Developing ASP.NET MVC Web ApplicationsMicrosoft
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Programming in HTML5 with JS and CSS3Microsoft
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Certificate in Advanced EnglishCambridge University
Language
- Bulgarian (Native)
- English (Professional)
- Japanese (Elementary)
Interests
- Swing Dancing
- Martial Arts
- Gaming







