About
Hello, I'm Harry! I am a generalist software engineer. I think about the whole product - from speed and simplicity for the end-user to the maintainability and re-usability of the code. I love open-source and I try to contribute back to the community on which we rely on.
Experience
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Sr Software Engineer, Uber
— 9 months
Joined Uber Sofia Engineering team to grow more in the field distributed systems.
- Working at the Fintech department at Uber in the Tax Invoices team.
- Focused on e-invoicing and external integrators.
- Acquired new skills in distributed engineering, Golang and Python.
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Chief Architect, Clippings (now DesignTechnologies)
— a year
Clippings.com is a interior design platform for interior designers to discover products from the largest online catalogue and manage their interior design projects from inspiration to instalation. (Acquired by Material Bank in 2021)
- Worked with external partners and clients on white-labeling the software.
- Formed cross-team functional working groups within engineering department.
- Worked with tech leads, engineering managers, product managers and stakeholders across multiple organisations.
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CTO, Clippings (now DesignTechnologies)
— 4 years
Clippings.com is a interior design platform for interior designers to discover products from the largest online catalogue and manage their interior design projects from inspiratio to instalation.
- Scaled the engineering team from 3 to 30 people.
- Worked on strategy and objectives for the company through multiple pivots and evolutions of the business.
- Participated in technical due diligence in investment rounds.
- Guided the technology direction and budget in the business.
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Software Engineer, Clippings (now DesignTechnologies)
— 4 years
Clippings.com is a interior design platform for interior designers to discover products from the largest online catalogue and manage their interior design projects from inspiratio to instalation.
- I worked as a full-stack developer throughout the whole product.
- Worked on transitioning the platform to the B2B business model.
- Helped with recruitment.
- Introduced new technologies in the stack.
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Software Engineer, OpenBuildings (now DesignTechnologies)
— 6 months
OpenBuildings was a crowd-sourced website for buildings targeted at architects, students and tourists. It was funded by Index Ventures in 2011. We pivoted to Clippings in 2012.
- Created the professional profiles for architecture companies at OpenBuildings.
- Introduced subscription payments for premium profiles of architecture companies as the first monetization.
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Software Engineer, Despark
— 3 years
Worked on clients' projects like startups in UK, USA and marketing agencies in Bulgaria.
- Worked with startup clients like OurLabel, TopLeagueFootball.
- Developed the back-end of the award-winning AUBG website.
- Done full-stack development with PHP/JavaScript/MySQL.
- Introduced newer framework versions to the company projects.
- Developed several Facebook apps for marketing clients in Bulgaria like IKEA, Becks and others.
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Web Developer, TranSYS BG
— 10 months
Worked with clients in a small agency on Joomla/PHP/JavaScript development and on-site SEO
- Worked with clients in Bulgaria and United Kingdom on Joomla websites and SEO.
- Headed the development of clients' projects with multiple developers.
- Managed communication with external clients on some of the projects.
Projects
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Yes, Bulgaria , Member, Activist
— 5 years
Part of an up and coming political party fighting for judical reforms and modernization of the country.
- Worked on the back-end of the open-source TiBroish platform for more transparent elections in Bulgaria.
- Helped with on-site SEO problems and security attacks against Wordpress website.
Education
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Software Engineering, Bachelor
— a year
Software University "Svetlin Nakov"
- C# Basics
- Java Basics
- PHP Basics
- JavaScript Basics
- Web Fundamentals
- Teamwork and Personal skills
- Object Oriented Programming
- Quality Code
- JavaScript Advanced
- JavaScript Applications
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Software Engineering, Bachelor
— 8 months
Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski"
- Linear Algebra
- Calculus
- Discrete structures
- Object Oriented Programming
- English
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Informatics, Mathematics, English, High School
— 5 years
Mathematics High School "Konstantin Velichkov"
- Informatics
- Competitive Informatics
- Information Technology
- Mathematics
- English
- Physics
- History
Skills
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Back-end Development — Master
- PHP
- MySQL
- Bash
- Python
- Node.js
- NestJS
- TypeScript
- Apache
- Object-oriented programming
- Functional programming
- SOLID principles
- Design patterns
- Domain-driven design
- MVC
- Symfony
- Silex
- OAuth
- REST APIs
- HTTP protocol
- Database architecture
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Front-end Development — Master
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- SASS
- React
- AngularJS
- jQuery
- jQuery plugin development
- Google Maps JavaScript SDK
- Facebook JavaScript SDK
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Infrastructure — Advanced
- AWS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Linux
- Docker
- Vagrant
- Linode
- Capistrano
- GitHub Actions
- Travis CI
- Jenkins
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Management — Advanced
- Hiring planning
- Budgeting
- Interviewing
- One-on-ones
- Personal development
- Goal-setting
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Data Science & Machine Learning — Beginner
- Data collection
- Data scraping
- ETLs
- Feature extraction
- Statistics
- Jupiter Notebooks
- Anaconda
- Tensorflow
Publications
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Automating processes with JavaScript & Git , DEV.BG JavaScript Talks
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Using tools like Husky, lint-changed and run-if-changed to wrap personal and team development processes with Git and Javascript
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Open-Source Contributions , Bulgaria OpenFest
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Closing keynote at OpenFest 2016 on the topic of contributing to open-source - what this means, how to do it and why
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Upgrading to PHP 7 , Bulgaria PHP Conference
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Lightning talk on how to upgrade to PHP 7 in a safe and reliable manner
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Dependency injection and reusable service providers , PHP User Group
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Technical talk about dependency injection, containers, service providers and reusing them across frameworks
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Composer Tips & Tricks , PHP User Group
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Composer tips & tricks for beginners and advanced users
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Development workflow , Bulgaria Web Summit
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Best practices in development workflow: Git, GitHub, Unit testing, Continuous integration
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Things I learned from the jQuery source , jQuery Bulgaria conference
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Examples of good and interesting JavaScript practices picked up from the jQuery source code.