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Bozhidar Marinov

Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

Software Engineer with 10 years of experience developing open source projects, collaborating remotely, mentoring teammates, designing complex system architectures, solving problems across the whole stack, streamlining CI/CD and developer experience, and delivering clean, documented, maintainable code.

Experience

"Programming with Bojidar", Bulgaria

Self-employed

  • Taught JavaScript to a total of 20 kids aged 11~15; with students making and presenting their own small projects
  • Reached ~50 people via Facebook and email during business research and converted 18% of them into final sales

Comrade Cooperative, Remote, Bulgaria

Senior Software Developer Part-time

  • Architected and prototyped 7 complex cutting-edge projects in collaboration with an all-remote team, including an S3-compatible storage running inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) with Minio and Kubernetes, contracts for a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) in Solidity, and a C# smart contract framework on Tendermint
  • Secured a $10k grant for a blockchain oracle library, communicated with the sponsor, and led a flawless delivery

Obecto, Remote, Bulgaria

Senior Software Developer Part-time

  • Maintained a stream-processing framework, assisted teams using it in 4 large projects (2 with external clients)
  • Reported and patched 5+ bugs deep in Apache Ignite and other open source dependencies

Godot Game Engine, Remote

Core Contributor Volunteer

  • Ranked #12 in terms of commits made to the primary repository of the engine
  • Co-maintained the engine's scripting language runtime, maintained the PHP backend of engine's asset library
  • Helped 100+ users in the community, triaged ~2100 issues, reviewed ~400 patches, organized documentation

Obecto, Hybrid, Bulgaria

Software Developer Intern

  • Worked on 2 internal AI-driven prototypes with Akka, Neo4j, and web extensions
  • Demonstrated Agile processes to a 50+-person company by starting Scrum sprints with Kanban-style tasks.

Education

B.A. in Computer Science

Thomas Edison State University, Online Expected graduation:

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • C
  • C++
  • Rust
  • C#
  • Go
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • QML
  • Solidity
  • PHP
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Scala
  • MariaDB
  • Godot
  • Vue.js
  • React.js
  • Android
  • Quasar
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Nginx
  • Bash
  • Git
  • GIMP
  • Kdenlive
  • Blender
  • Inkscape
  • CI/CD
  • REST
  • Mentoring
  • Documentation
  • Debugging
  • Bulgarian (Native)
  • English (Fluent)

Achievements

1st place, "I Can Here And Now", Programming (team)

2nd place, "I Can Here And Now", Programming (team)

1st place, National Winter Informatics Competition, Competitive programming (solo)