
Svetlozar Valchev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Engineer and Developer
Sofia, Bulgaria
Toptal member since December 10, 2018
Svetlozar is a principal product and systems engineer with 20 years of experience building full-stack web and mobile products, real-time systems, developer tools, and production cloud platforms. He leads architecture while remaining hands-on across product interfaces, back-end services, C++ runtimes, AI integrations, and AWS delivery, taking technically demanding products from critical path to production.
Portfolio
Experience
- Full-stack Development - 15 years
- Node.js - 15 years
- TypeScript - 10 years
- Software Architecture - 10 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- React - 6 years
- C++ - 3 years
- AI Integration - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Git, Ubuntu, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Docker, Kitty
The most amazing...
...system I've built is SPARQ, a cross-platform C++ engine combining rendering, asset pipelines, multiplayer replication, scripting, and native MCP support.
Work Experience
Staff Engineer and Co-founder, SPARQ
Neural
- Architected SPARQ as a cross-platform C++ engine spanning rendering, browser and native runtimes, tooling, multiplayer systems, and cloud delivery.
- Built major parts of the asset pipeline from texture and mesh ingestion through cooking, cloud infrastructure, and user delivery.
- Implemented ECS-based replicated state for multiplayer and V8-powered TypeScript scripting with hot reload.
- Built an authenticated native MCP subsystem exposing projects, assets, ECS state, play mode, screenshots, networking, and runtime commands to AI agents.
Principal Product & Systems Engineer
Software Dev Ltd
- Led architecture and hands-on delivery across clinical platforms, mobile products, media-generation pipelines, real-time systems, AI-enabled tools, and production cloud infrastructure.
- Built critical paths across TypeScript, React, React Native, Vue, Node.js, PHP, C++ runtimes, PostgreSQL, and AWS services.
- Delivered FHIR-based clinical systems, mobile product and game platforms, browser-based 3D tools, and server-side Canvas and FFmpeg rendering pipelines.
- Assembled and led small teams of product, design, systems, cloud, and QA specialists according to project scope.
- Owned delivery from ambiguous requirements through architecture, implementation, productionisation, and ongoing technical direction.
Software Engineer and Co-founder
Neuratech
- Productized LoRA-based eCommerce model generation through job, asset, product, billing, and application integrations.
- Built Unity editor tooling for text-to-3D, image-to-3D, texturing, asset libraries, and import workflows, and contributed to the corresponding Unreal integration.
- Contributed to dataset, training, and inference tooling, then integrated a custom terrain-generation model into an Unreal Engine heightmap and material workflow.
- Built supporting React, Node.js, Python, and Azure product infrastructure.
Lead Front-end Developer
Minerva Networks
- Architected a high-performance IPTV interface and a custom memory-conscious MVVM framework for resource-constrained set-top boxes.
- Led the development of a multi-client white-label television platform used across constrained hardware environments.
- Built automated interface testing infrastructure and repeatedly profiled, refactored, and rewrote critical paths to improve runtime performance.
- Optimized memory use and rendering behavior to keep the interface responsive on hardware with severe CPU and memory constraints.
- Maintained shared platform code across multiple white-label deployments and customer-specific configurations.
- Worked with back-end, QA, design, and device teams to ship reliable interfaces across diverse set-top box environments.
Full-stack Developer
DSP Media Group
- Prototyped and developed a mobile app using Angular and Cordova.
- Developed the back office front end using Aurelia and Socket.io.
- Built the back-end infrastructure using a technology stack that includes Express.js, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Developed middleware and API gateways that handled external APIs.
- Assisted in managing project tasks and scope using Jira.
- Automated and improved the development flow using Slack and bots.
Credited UI/UX Developer
BeamNG.drive
- Developed and maintained the game UI using Angular 1.5.
- Attached game logic to UI using Lua exposed by the game code.
- Assisted in brainstorming and designing the UI/UX.
Senior Front-end Developer
Cayetano Gaming
- Developed a custom JavaScript-based game engine to use in-house.
- Built slot and scratch games using the in-house game engine.
- Scripted animations provided by animators (sprite sheets, custom animations using Tween.js, and other approaches).
- Edited audio, including cutting and splitting using tools like Audacity.
- Supported a wide range of mobile devices and tablets.
- Developed build tools using Node.js for automatization and automatic deployments.
Senior Full-stack Developer
XS Software
- Integrated many payment providers (PayPal, Skrill, Paysafe, ePay, and others).
- Created a recurring payments system and integrated it with payment providers.
- Developed and maintained business and sales analytics tools.
- Improved back-office customer support management tools.
- Supported a payment system using an MVC architecture.
- Resolved payment and chargeback issues and tickets.
- Developed an app in Python that automates the invoice export function.
Full-stack Developer
Freelance/Glide-Design
- Created a custom MVC framework to improve the development workflow.
- Developed corporate websites using Joomla and other CMSs.
- Developed blogs and websites using WordPress and other blogging frameworks.
- Transformed PSD files from designers to HTML and CSS.
- Developed an email template engine for sending emails to thousands of subscribers.
Founder and Lead Developer
Independent
- Founded and operated a browser RPG that grew to more than 10,000 active players.
- Built the PHP and MySQL back end, account and progression systems, browser interface, payments, administration tools, and live operations.
- Led a small team across engineering, design, and community management while owning product direction, implementation, and delivery.
Experience
SPARQ Game Engine
https://playsparq.comPlug & Rev: Engine Audio Authoring
https://plugandrev.comAI Product Integrations
Clinical Product Systems
Media Generation Pipeline
Performance-constrained IPTV Platform
BeamNG.drive UI
https://www.beamng.comTraffic Manager for Cities: Skylines
https://github.com/SvetlozarValchev/Skylines-Traffic-ManagerEducation
High School Diploma in English, Mathematics, Informatics
Professional High School of Science and Mathematics 'Ivan Vazov' - Dobrich, Bulgaria
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery, Socket.IO, RequireJS, React, React Router, Vue 3, Vue, Three.js, WebGL, Stripe API, Zepto, CreateJS, EJS, FFmpeg
Tools
NPM, Subversion (SVN), Bower, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, Browserify, Git, GitHub, Prisma, Blender, Codex, Claude Code, Claude, Jira, Slack, Audacity, Perforce, Karma, Mocha, SMART on FHIR, Adobe Animate, CMake, V8
Languages
TypeScript, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, HTML5, C#, Python, Lua, C++, GraphQL, Kotlin, Swift, CSS
Frameworks
Aurelia, Knockout (Knockout.js), Bootstrap, Express.js, React Native, Unity, Angular, Nuxt.js, PixiJS, .NET, AngularJS, Jasmine, Unity3D, Laravel, Next.js, Django, Unreal Engine
Paradigms
MVC Design, REST, Event-driven Architecture, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), UI Design, Agile, E2E Testing, Unit Testing, Scrum, Agile Software Development, HL7 FHIR Standard, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), UX Design, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Platforms
Windows, Ubuntu, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, WordPress, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS Lambda, Vercel
Storage
MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Other
API Integration, Full-stack Development, Payment APIs, Full-stack, RESTFul APIs, Front-end, User Interface (UI), Webhooks, Software Architecture, Unidirectional Data Flow, Microsoft 365, State Machines, Games, Electronic Health Records (EHR), Healthtech, AI Tools, Artificial Intelligence (AI), eCommerce, User Experience (UX), Healthcare Services, Vite, Agentic Coding, AI Integration, Cursor AI, Streaming, AI Agents, OpenAI, Agentic AI, Cordova, APIs, Cloudflare, WebAssembly (Wasm), Digital Signal Processing, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Microsoft Azure, Performance Optimization, Game Development, Kitty
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