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Core maintainer for Lexical Open Source Project

Software Engineering Team Leader

Bloomberg LP

• Technical manager of a team looking after the content editing product and infrastructure on the Bloomberg Terminal, part of the Markets, Community & AI group. Focus on research ingestion, data enrichment and terminal integrations.
• Web Guild Chairman - provide company-wide guidance on web architecture, technology investment and work with marketing on conference sponsorships and talks.
• Working with Lexical Yjs C++ TypeScript Python SQL PostgreSQL RabbitMQ Redis Node Apache Solr Boost Grafana Docker Kubernetes Git Jenkins Jira and several internal technologies.
• Lead the recruitment initiatives in the Research Collaboration & Analytics group & interview senior engineering candidates.

Senior Software Engineer

Bloomberg LP

• Full-stack developer working in the content editing team since March 2021 and a defacto Team Leader since June 2021 in the Markets, Community & Artificial Intelligence group. Focus on research ingestion, data enrichment and terminal integrations.
• Worked in the Portfolio Risk & Analytics group from October 2016 to March 2021, focused on Enterprise Portfolio Batch Reporting and Infrastructure serving more than 60 teams.
• Web Guild Chairman - provide company-wide guidance on web architecture, technology investment and work with marketing on conference sponsorships and talks.
• Working with C++ TypeScript Python SQL PostgreSQL RabbitMQ Redis React Node Apache Solr Boost Elasticsearch Grafana Docker Kubernetes Git Jenkins Jira and several internal technologies.
• Head of the Global Financial Meetup in the engineering department
• Interview senior engineering candidates & help in recruitment initiatives

Software Engineer

Bloomberg LP

• Full-stack developer working in the Enterprise Portfolio Batch Reporting team in the Portfolio Risk & Analytics group. Focus on a big data distributed portfolio analytics reporting automation system.
• Working with C++ TypeScript Lua Python SQL Node Redux Kafka Elasticsearch Boost Grafana Docker Kubernetes Git Jenkins Jira and several internal technologies.
• Strong focus on scalable, maintainable and fault-tolerant systems
• Head of the Global Financial Meetup in the Engineering department
• Teach finance to the graduate and senior new hires in the Engineering department
• Code reviews, visiting clients across the globe & assisting our product managers

Equity Analytics Advanced Specialist

Bloomberg LP

• Last point of escalation on client inquiries on Equities, Derivatives, Trading, Technical Analysis & API
• Head of Technical Analysis Group for the London Analytics Department (May 2014-Nov 2015)
• Develop Custom Technical Studies and Trading Strategies for backtesting upon clients' requests
• Meet with Product Managers to discuss clients' feedback for future development of the product
• Visit clients and train new users on the Terminals' functionality to fit their workflow
• Teach new hires Statistics, Equity, Technical Analysis, Charting and Bloomberg API
• Teach In-Depth Technical Analysis Course and Introductory Python Programming
• Restructured the Equity Training Program for the Analytics Desk New Hires
• Secondary Specialism in Fixed Income and Forex
• Regular contributor to the Bloomberg Brief Newsletter for Technical Analysis

Equity Analytics Specialist

Bloomberg LP

• Deputy Team Leader for the Emerging Markets Team covering Central & Eastern Europe
• Answer clients Equity-related queries on the Bloomberg Professional through the Analytics desk
• Assisting clients' advanced questions on Charting, Technical Analysis and Bloomberg's Excel API
• Visit clients and train new users on the Terminals' functionality to fit their workflow
• Teach new hires in Analytics introduction to Technical Analysis, Charting and Excel API
• Create Technical Studies using Visual C# .NET and Bloomberg's Custom Studies API
• Assist in the Machine Learning project for automation of client's frequently asked questions

Massive Open Online Courses

EdX, Coursera, Udemy, CFA Institute

• Coursera

• Data Science Specialization (John Hopkins University)
• Algorithms: Design & Analysis, Part 1 (Stanford)
• Machine Learning (Stanford)

• EdX

• Introduction to Statistics: Inference (BerkeleyX)
• HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices (W3Cx)
• Introduction to Computer Science I (HarvardX)
• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (MITx)
• Matrix Algebra and Linear Models (HarvardX)

• Udemy

• Advanced C++ Programming
• Advanced Databases & SQL Querying
• Asynchronous JavaScript
• Advanced JavaScript
• Introduction to Serverless
• The Ultimate Hands-on Hadoop - Tame Your Big Data
• Functional Programming using C++
• Understanding TypeScript
• C++ for Complete Beginners
• JavaScript for Beginners Introduction to Coding

• CFA Institute

• Principles on Wealth Management
• Ethical Decision Making for Investment Professionals

• Microsoft Virtual Academy

• Networking Fundamentals
• Rapidly Diagnose and Solve Application Problems

• LinkedIn Learning

• Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 Essential Training
• Adobe Audition CC 2019 Essential Training

Financial Product Sales & Analytics Intern

Bloomberg LP

• Received training in financial markets, Bloomberg Professional functionality and sales techniques
• Answered clients queries on the Bloomberg Professional services through the Analytics desk
• Developed customer focus trough sustaining current relationships with clients via calling and visits
• Brainstorming and presenting ideas in teams with focus on improving the company’s workflow
• Improved commercial awareness assisting the Emerging Markets sales teams in day-to-day activities
• Participated in new global functionality launches, as well as volunteering and charity activities

Corporate Banking Intern

Societe Generale Expressbank

• Meet with clients and offer the bank's consumer products – credit cards, insurance, online banking.
• Learn the fundamentals of credit appraisal and help the assessment process with admin tasks.
• Research on prospective clients, analyzed financial statements and updated the bank's CMS.
• Helped colleagues with the preparation of application forms and contracts.

BA (Honours) Economics & Finance

The University of Manchester

• Advanced Corporate Finance
• Econometrics
• Financial Derivatives
• Financial Engineering
• Empirical Finance
• Investment Analysis
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Financial Markets & Institutions
• Money, Banking & Financial Markets
• Macroeconomics III

Founder & Administrator

Voxpit.com

• Developed a basic CMS based on PHP and MySQL
• Technical administration - hosting space, domain registration, etc.
• Manage accounts with the Google AdSense platform and creating revenue to cover expenses
• Moderate user account creation and published content
• Promote the product by travelling around the country and presenting at conferences.

Mathematics, Information Technologies & French

High School of Mathematics - Varna, Bulgaria

• Mathematics
• Informatics
• Physics
• French language
• Bulgarian language