Bozhidar Marinov

Professional Experience

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; transitioned the business from a 10-week online course to an ongoing workshop with pre-recorded videos

Architected and developed an S3-compatible decentralized storage solution built on Minio and TEE-s
Developed a decentralized cloud platform on top of Kubernetes and Trusted Execution Envionments
Led a small team building an oracle platform with Substrate; delivery was approved with no code rework
Drafted a grant proposal and communicated with the sponsoring organization on our first $10k grant
Maintained the Cooperative's GitHub repositories; ensured code quality and documented the work
Developed Solidity smart contracts comprising a Decentralized Autonomous Organization
Rearchitected a C# message-passing smart contracts framework prototype to work with Tendermint

Developed the core pieces of an in-house stream-processing framework on top of Apache Ignite
Fixed issues deep in open-source projects we used and got changes merged upstream
Maintained the open-source repository and assisted users of said framework

Developed a genetic programming framework based on the Actor model for an AI-driven trading engine
Launched the first Kanban-style sprint in the company for a prototype AI-powered learning platform

Taught an introductory C# course to a full classroom; at least 2 students are now programming full-time

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 and architecture
Engaged in the community: assisted users (>100), triaged issues (>2k), wrote documentation