Daniel Nenkov
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since December 4, 2019
Daniel is adept at digging into complex problems to find innovative solutions that benefit both the company and their clients. Most recently, he has created a digital challenger bank for SMEs, led a team that changed the way people apply for divorce in the UK, and created an award-winning multi-factor authentication platform that was featured in Tech Crunch and WSJ. He's looking forward to tackling his next challenge.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 18 years
- Java - 18 years
- Web - 18 years
- JavaScript - 14 years
- Spring - 10 years
- Spring Boot - 10 years
- Agile - 7 years
- Git - 7 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, IntelliJ IDEA, APIs
The most amazing...
...project I have worked on is a challenger bank for small businesses in the UK.
Work Experience
Full-stack Developer
Mumo Systems, LLC
- Developed apps to connect to Okta, Azure Active Directory (now Microsoft Entra ID), and OneLogin to get user information into Jira.
- Added features, fixed bugs, and worked on implementing a new design for a popular calculations Jira app.
- Created an automated process using Helm charts to deploy Jira and Confluence in AWS.
Senior Full-stack Developer
Stockopedia
- Developed a robust recommendation engine for Stockopedia, enhancing the platform's capability to suggest personalized stock picks, resulting in a 20% increase in user engagement and satisfaction.
- Designed and implemented the user portfolio feature, allowing investors to seamlessly track and manage their stock investments, which led to a 30% rise in active portfolio users.
- Managed and optimized user account systems, ensuring secure and efficient access, improving overall user experience, and reducing account-related support queries by 25%.
Senior Engineer
Mettle
- Contributed to the development of Mettle, a standalone SME challenger bank launched by RBS that provides a current account, instant invoicing, and the ability to add receipts to transactions and track expenses from a mobile app.
- Extended and maintained existing and created new microservices that fit the event-sourcing architecture of the Mettle platform.
- Added features to the React Native mobile banking application.
- Migrated the event stream to AVRO so we could implement continuous deployment.
- Extended the automated test suite by introducing consumer-driven contract tests (Pact).
- Created an interactive dashboard to track business and team OKRs.
Technical Lead
Ministry of Justice, UK
- Ensured the divorce microservices fit in the overall high-level design of the reform program. This involved regular meetings with the program architects and communicating design decisions with team members.
- Created low-level design documents, selecting the right tools and technologies, and made sure that the software released to the public was as robust and secure as it could be.
- Removed technical impediments and owned the overall sprint outcome.
- Created new and extended existing microservices to deliver features to citizens, government officials, and solicitors.
- Led the digital divorce team.
Technical Lead
Callsign
- Was fully involved in the architecture, design, and development of new products and features.
- Wrote a new, modern version of the Callsign dashboard from scratch in React. I managed to phase out the old version of the product iteratively by working closely with product designers to rethink and redesign features and move them to the modern view.
- Created an extended version of the Callsign Admin REST API which provides a standard interface for onboarding organizations and users into Callsign.
- Contributed to Callsign On Premise (OP). We were tasked to extract part of the platform to allow deploying it on clients’ premises so that enterprises are in control of their transactional data.
- Developed Callsign PKI that allows Callsign Cloud to validate OP installations are trusted (CFSSL).
- Developed EventBridge that provides active unfiltered transmission of events from one site (Cloud or OP) to another.
- Contributed to the development of Replication Bridge that provides passive filtered replication of changes from one site to another.
- Architected and developed the first version of a multi-layered security engine that helps enterprises instantly detect and mitigate authentication threats. This later became one of the major selling points of Callsign.
Senior Engineer
Semafone
- Designed, developed, and maintained the payment module in the company's award-winning software solution. The Semafone software provides secure voice transactions for contact centers and retailers taking cardholder not present (CNP) payments.
- Ensured that the Semafone software is created and maintained using best practices and high security standards so it easily passes the frequent PA DSS certifications.
- Contributed to the deployment of the Semafone software to clients' on-premise environments.
Software Engineer
Business Systems (UK)
- Designed, built, and supported a platform for call recording and workforce management technologies encompassing quality monitoring, analytics, and workforce management.
- Designed and developed an asynchronous call storage and archive library which was used to archive call recordings to the company’s internal data storage or to transfer them securely to clients’ premises.
- Implemented public SOAP and RESTful APIs which were used by the company’s mobile developers and external parties to create and manage conference calls.
Experience
Mettle
https://www.mettle.co.uk/Callsign
https://www.callsign.com/Technical Team Lead - Digital Divorce - Ministry of Justice - UK
https://www.gov.uk/divorce/file-for-divorceEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Sofia University - Sofia, Bulgaria
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, Highcharts, Node.js, JOOQ
Tools
Git, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, AWS IAM, Kafka Streams
Languages
Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, SQL, TypeScript, HTML, C, Kotlin
Frameworks
Spring, Spring Boot, Redux, Spring Security, GWT, React Native, Angular
Paradigms
Agile, REST
Platforms
Web, Azure, Apache Kafka, Firebase, Docker, MacOS, Linux
Storage
PostgreSQL, Spring Data REST, Databases, Couchbase, MySQL
Other
APIs, Technical Consulting, Custom Solutions, System Architecture, System Design, Full-stack, Code Review, Software Architecture, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Caching, Code Architecture, Okta
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