Dimitar Dimitrov Popov, Developer in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Dimitar Dimitrov Popov

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Software Developer

Location
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Toptal Member Since
February 20, 2020

Dimitar is a passionate developer with more than twelve years of experience and over 30 robust websites, platforms, and applications. His expertise includes programming architecture and building scalable systems. Dimitar is conversant with Agile and enjoys creating high-performing solutions for clients.

Portfolio

DSCVR, Inc
Vue, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS
The Sixth Hammer
Ajax, Vue, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, MySQL, JavaScript, CodeIgniter, Laravel, PHP...
Trio Interactive
CSS, HTML, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, Drupal, Agile, Jira

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Unity3D, Laravel, MySQL, Vue 2, PHP 7

The most amazing...

...project I've helped develop is a huge RPG Metroidvania game called Moo Lander, based on Unity, available for PC, Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch (soon).

Work Experience

Front-end Developer

2022 - 2023
DSCVR, Inc
  • Translated design proposals into Jira tasks and deliverables.
  • Identified and created a lot of reusable widgets and front-end components.
  • Created mobile-optimized designs using Vue 3 and Tailwind.
  • Developed and applied solutions for hard front-end related problems.
  • Created the structure and backbone architecture of numerous bigger front-end features like portals management, user personalization, roles, and permissions, etc.
  • Estimated and distributed tasks between myself and the rest of the front-end team.
Technologies: Vue, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS

Project Manager

2018 - 2023
The Sixth Hammer
  • Co-created a company for providing digital solutions within the web, mobile, and gaming industry, including over 20 company websites and eCommerce platforms and six mobile applications and games.
  • Managed a large gaming project for PCs and consoles and coordinated a multinational team of programmers, artists, composers, and designers.
  • Worked as a senior developer on dozens of projects, including eCommerce solutions, web applications, company websites, and SaaS.
Technologies: Ajax, Vue, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, MySQL, JavaScript, CodeIgniter, Laravel, PHP, Unity3D, Jira, Agile

Back-end Drupal Developer

2016 - 2017
Trio Interactive
  • Worked on various eCommerce solutions and company websites for the German market.
  • Contributed to the Drupal community with various Drupal 8 modules.
  • Worked as a senior developer on projects overseeing and coordinating the work of the Bulgarian team.
  • Participated in daily Agile meetings and weekly stand-ups.
Technologies: CSS, HTML, Ajax, jQuery, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, Drupal, Agile, Jira

Senior Web Developer

2014 - 2015
PSoft, Ltd.
  • Developed an application for selling pizzas for a large German company.
  • Participated in the development of custom themes and plugins for a Joomla project.
  • Delivered a new usable version of the project each week.
Technologies: Ajax, jQuery, CSS, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP, Joomla

Web Developer

2011 - 2014
ZonaBG, Ltd.
  • Developed a portal built from scratch featuring an eCommerce platform and business directory.
  • Developed a sub-system for generating personal websites for all participating companies enabling them to trade their goods and services within their own personal domain.
  • Oversaw the launch process resulting in hundreds of companies with thousands of products in the first month after the launch.
Technologies: Ajax, jQuery, CSS, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP

TMobile Internal SPA Application

Acted as a senior Vue developer for TMobile, the third-biggest mobile services company in the United States. I have worked on an internal SPA application for the TMobile staff to create an app that provides information regarding the tasks that TMobile employees have to do. This is a private application, so I'm not allowed to share a public link.

Decentralized Social Application

https://dscvr.one
Dscvr is a decentralized social news aggregator. I worked heavily on the Vue side, building all needed components, improving the Vuex structure, fixing existing problems, and maintaining and expanding the architecture.

Vue Front-end Expert for a SaaS Product

Worked as the lead Vue developer on building the Figma plugin "Strings-the UX writing tool" providing various functionalities for web designers, missing in Figma. The work also included integration between the plugin and a web application based on Vue.

Moo Lander and Its Web Infrastructure

https://moolander.com
The web infrastructure includes a back-end statistical system, email marketing platform, company website, game eCommerce, etc.

A 2D action-adventure RPG with Metroidvania elements featuring an epic plot, mighty cow bosses, beautiful environments, clever puzzles, and lots of milk!
It has been developed by a team of 17 people from four continents in seven years. It has been released for PCs, Xbox, and PlayStation with a pending release on Nintendo Switch!

Unlock a deadly arsenal of milk weaponry and defenses while stranded on a dangerous alien world. With your trusty AI companion - Hamilton, you will fight and outsmart hordes of enemies, meet memorable characters, and unearth ancient secrets while the adventure twists and turns at every corner. Challenge our Mighty Cow bosses and tame them for their precious milk! Expect glorious action battles, unique environmental puzzles, beautiful art, and self-recorded immersive music. Continue fighting as a Mighty Cow in our four-player couch multiplayer full of different PvP and PvE modes on multiple battle arenas.

Lintel Betonwerk Company Website

https://www.lintel-gruppe.de/
Worked as a senior back-end Drupal developer to build the company website. Built with Drupal 8, featuring multi-level user roles and two subsites for the B2B and B2C sectors. Created and contributed a custom Drupal 8 module for the fast development of page content.

Brandsync Company Website

Worked as a senior back-end Drupal developer to build this product website for the company Trio Interactive. Built with Drupal 8 featuring a self-developed Drupal module for page content management. Used Jira as the task management system within an Agile environment.

Associate Portal SaaS Platform

A software-as-a-service platform for tracking expenses and time allocations for company employees. It offers multi-tier access control and features reporting and analysis of the logged data for optimizing the companies' workflow.

DC News Website

https://dcnews.bg/
Developed features and new designs on the website as well as performed maintenance. DC News is a big digital press website about news in Plovdiv and Asenovgrad, Bulgaria. The website is part of the DC corporation.

WingTsun Illinois Website

http://wingtsunil.com/
Developed a website in WordPress for Wing Tsun Illinois Martial Arts, part of one of the largest private martial arts organizations in the world, The International WingTsun Association (IWTA). Reflects what the company has achieved and can offer to its trainees.

EWTO Website

http://wingtsun-bg.com/
Developed and maintained the website built in WordPress. EWTO-Bulgaria officially represents IWTA and EWTO. This is one of the largest martial arts organizations in Bulgaria. It is a company website, reflecting what the EWTO organization is achieved and can offer to its trainees.

Spatium Game

Developed an Android game from Basicks Studio via my company. Worked as a project manager and coordinated all aspects of the development, including game design, game art, programming, quality assurance, and publishing.

Christmas Fools Game

Christmas Fools is a cross-platform game by The Sixth Hammer, available on Android and iOS. Concept, gameplay, music, sound effects, and graphics were developed by The Sixth Hammer. I worked as a project manager overseeing all aspects of the project.

Accounting Software for EWTO Bulgaria

Developed the back end of the internal accounting software for EWTO Bulgaria. It was developed in 2012 and still in use by all official branches of the organization in the country. The code was written from scratch.

Orient Plus Application

Developed the official cross-platform (Android, iOS) mobile app of TheTravelShop GSA OrientPlus, a leading travel agency located in Beirut, Lebanon using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with Phonegap cross-platform ports.

Smart Hits Application

Smart Hits Browser is a next-generation technology of human browsing simulation. It was developed on C# for a private company in Bulgaria. It uses low-level Windows APIs for achieving a realistic simulation.

HappyQuizz Website

Developed a website for Facebook apps and quizzes from scratch. One of the top trending Facebook apps for Bulgaria in 2017 with over one million unique visits and over five million page views over the first month.

Hotel Condor Website

Developed the new website of Hotel Condor, a hotel in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, on WordPress with a custom design. Worked extensively with the client to clear the project idea and provide the needed solution.

Yang Taichi Bulgaria Website

Helped with the WordPress development of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association in Bulgaria, founded in March 2007.  The theme of the website had to be responsive to the time of year. Developed with WordPress.

PetrolheadShirts Website

Developed an eCommerce website on PrestaShop for an international company with over 20 years of experience in clothing production. Created extensive customization of the built-in theme and functionalities.

Zona BG Portal

http://zona.bg
This eCommerce portal was built from scratch and features an eCommerce platform and business directory. The participating companies get personal websites with an option to separate the .com domain to sell only their own products.

Lord of Fire

An Android game in the Tamagotchi genre, where you need to build and keep your own fire and then compete with other players to see who will create the biggest one. I led the development of this project.

Christmas Fools

https://apkcombo.com/christmas-fools/com.christmas.fools.android/
In this game, you will play as the Christmas spirit, trying to impress Santa by helping and protecting the characters in some ridiculous, funny, and awkward situations. I led the development of the whole project for Android and iOS.

Languages

PHP, PHP 5, PHP 7, HTML, CSS, CSS3, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), HTML5, SQL, Sass, Less, C#, TypeScript, Java, Pug, C#.NET

Frameworks

Laravel, Laravel 5, Unity3D, PhoneGap, Bootstrap, Bootstrap 3, Unity, PHP MVC, CodeIgniter, Fat-Free Framework, CodeIgniter 3, Yii, CakePHP, Nuxt.js, Bootstrap 3+, Symfony, LibGDX, Angular, Tailwind CSS, Nova

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, Vue, REST APIs, React, Windows Forms (WinForms), Vue 2, Vuex

Tools

Photo Editors, Vue CLI, Jira, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Confluence, After Effects CC, Audition CC, Figma, PHPRunner

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Web Architecture, Back-end Architecture, Agile Workflow, Object-relational Mapping (ORM), UX Design, Management, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), UI Design, Agile, REST, Agile Project Management

Platforms

LAMP, XAMPP, Drupal, Drupal 8, WordPress, Firebase, Android, Drupal 7, Joomla, Mobile, iOS, AirDev Canvas

Storage

MySQL, Relational Databases, MongoDB, NoSQL, PostgreSQL

Other

Ajax, Front-end, Web Development, Web App Development, Front-end Development, Front-end Architecture, Back-end Development, Web UX, App UX, Web UI, Vue Router, Full-stack, Full-stack Development, User Interface (UI), Back-end, Games, 2D Games, APIs, MVC Frameworks, Team Leadership, Architecture, Video Editing, Integration, Game Design, Game Development, API Integration, Data Structures, Web3, Fintech, 3D Games, Tax Software, Image Processing, Video Processing, Video Players, Payment APIs, Cordova, Photoshop CC 2019, User Experience (UX), Websites, eCommerce, WordPress Plugins, Axios, Software, Symphony, Remote Team Leadership

2015 - 2020

Bachelor's Degree in Software Technologies and Design

Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski” - Plovdiv, Bulgaria

APRIL 2016 - PRESENT

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Course

Software University

MAY 2015 - PRESENT

Teaching Degree

NUMTI Dobrin Petkov

SEPTEMBER 2013 - PRESENT

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Course

Telerik Academy

JULY 2011 - PRESENT

PHP Back-end Development Course

Viscomp, Ltd.

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