Wrote a 50k novel with guidance from professional writers; started my own lemonade-stand business.
Bridgeway Academy —
Professional Experience
Comrade Cooperative, Bulgaria
Chairman —Ongoing
Managed the lifecycle of the first grant application (for $10k) of the Cooperative, drafting the initial proposal and communicating with the sponsoring organization throughout
Led the full development lifecycle of that grant-financed project, maintained the project's open-source repository, coordinated the work of the team, led the code review, and documented the project
Senior Software Developer, part-time —Dec 2023
Architected and developed smart contracts comprising a Decentralized Autonomous Organization
Integrated C# message-passing smart contracts with Tendermint as part of rearchitecting the fundamental building blocks of a C# blockchain project
Programming course for kids, Bulgaria —
Own business
Organized ~10-week online course and taught JavaScript to a total of 18 kids aged 11~15. During the course each student made their own game and presented it to the rest of the group
Conducted business research, marketing, and administration for that same course
Obecto, Bulgaria
Senior Software Developer, part-time —
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
Internship —
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
SoftUni, Bulgaria ,
Lecturer, Programming Basics Course
Languages and IT skills
Bulgarian:Native
English:FluentTOEFL109/120
FrenchBasic knowledge
IT Skills:Programming (Expert—JavaScript, C#, Python, Kotlin, Java, C++, Rust, Solidity; HTML/CSS), GIMP, Blender, Google Sheets, Docs/Slides, Zoom
Additional Experience and Achievements
Godot Game Engine, Core Contributor —
Ranked #12 in terms of commits made to the main 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
2nd / 1st place in "I Can Here And Now" Competition, programming /
1st place at National Winter Informatics Competition
