Bozhidar Marinov

Professional Experience

Developed an open-source autonomous cloud platform on top of Kubernetes and Trusted Execution Envionments (TDX/SEV-SNP)
Led the development lifecycle of an decentralized oracle platform, maintained the project's GitHub repository, coordinated the work of the team, ensured code quality, and documented the project
Managed the lifecycle of the very first grant application (for $10k) of the Cooperative, drafting the initial proposal and communicating with the sponsoring organization throughout
Developed smart contracts comprising a Decentralized Autonomous Organization
Rearchitected the core parts of a C# message-passing smart contracts framework to use Tendermint

Taught JavaScript to a total of 20 kids aged 11~15; each making and presenting their own small game
Conducted business research, marketing, and administration for that same course; gradually transitioning it from a ~10-week online course to an ongoing workshop with pre-recorded videoss.

Developed the internal pieces of a novel stream-processing framework on top of Apache Ignite
Maintained the documentation and open-source repository of that stream-processing framework
Assisted teammates with debugging code built on top of aforementioned framework
Fixed issues deep in the Apache Ignite and got changes merged upstream

Worked on an AI-powered market trading engine together with a remote team; developed a genetic programming framework based on the Actor model
Launched the first Kanban-style sprint in the company for a prototype AI-powered learning platform

Ranked #12 in terms of commits made to the primary repository of the engine
Maintained the engine's scripting language parser and runtime together with another contributor
Participated in conversations regarding the engine's future