Software Engineer work experience

OpenTag

Java Developer

Aug 2022 - Present

Designed and implemented REST endpoints for casino game providers to integrate with our API, and contributed to the development of the service and repository layers of the application

Migrated Apache Thrift endpoints to gRPC

Produced and consumed Kafka events

Monitored Sentry for errors and resolved bugs to ensure application stability

Refactored the applications code to enhance codebase readability and maintainability

Reviewed other people’s code and helped them improve their merge requests

VMware contract

Full Stack Java Developer

November 2021 - Aug 2022

Optimized application workflows to improve overall performance and user experience

Secured the backend with spring security and JWT

Reviewed other people’s code and helped them improve their merge requests

Implemented UI changes and new UI functionalities in Angular

VIVACOM

Full Stack Java Developer

December 2020 - October 2021

Created and updated RESTful APIs consumed by mobile applications

Maintained and enhanced an existing Web Applications back-end and UI

Designed web clients to consume RESTful web services

Established communication between microservices with JSM (ActiveMQ Artemis)

Deployed the newest versions of the application using Jenkins with blue-green deployment strategy

Implemented unit and integration tests and documented the code

Other work experience

Clothing Store - Iliyantsi

Sales Associate

April 2018 - September 2020

Assisted team members as needed throughout the store

Found solutions to client problems

Consulted clients to help them make the right purchases

Maintained orderly appearance in the store

Loaded goods from the warehouse

GSM ONE

Sales Associate

February 2018 - Apr 2018

Staying knowledgeable about our range of phone accessories

Explaining the benefits and functions of products to customers

Maintained orderly appearance in the store

My developers journey

Personal Projects

Projects i did with the purpose of becoming a better developer

Fallowed recommended best developer practises such as

DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

S.O.L.I.D principles

Improved my code quality during the month and a half or so it took me to write my personal projects (including this portfolio)

Researched witch technologies are in the highest demand in the job marked and picked them for my projects

Spend a lot of time fixing the dumbest bugs ever :(

SoftUni Free Courses

I watched the SoftUni courses online from home and did the homeworks

Watched the videos to understand the language/library/framework better

Solved the homework problems Tested the solutions with the SoftUni Judge system

Tested the homework solutions with the SoftUni Judge system

Inspected other peoples code to see if there are any different solutions to the problem

Passed through all of the courses of the "Java Web Developer module"

Education

Technical University of Sofia

Mechanical Engineering Bachelors Degree

Lomonosov High School

Audio Systems and Cinema Diploma