Emil Stoev, Developer in Valencia, Spain
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Emil Stoev

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Back-end Developer

Location
Valencia, Spain
Toptal Member Since
June 14, 2019

As a veteran full-stack developer, Emil has considerable relevant experience, including IoT, machine learning, and mobile projects. His foundation is in C# and .NET, with many years of experience in back-end development. He's currently finishing up a brief hiatus to study machine learning and AI development and catching up on exciting languages like Go and Rust.

Portfolio

Alteryx
Localization, C#, C++, C#.NET, HTML5, JavaScript, .NET
Freelance
Azure SQL, Jenkins, Twitter API, ASP.NET Core 2, Entity Framework Core...
eStreamDesk
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EC2, Facebook API, Software Architecture...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio, .NET, Azure

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is a phonetic sorting in Japanese for a global data science company.

Work Experience

Engineering Lead

2020 - 2023
Alteryx
  • Managed the localization and accessibility teams. Helped maintain predictive velocity.
  • Interviewed and helped onboard new software engineers and product managers.
  • Designed best practices courses and exams used by the existing engineers that are also part of the new hires' onboarding process.
  • Created an automated process for the initial and ongoing localization of the software assets.
  • Optimized the localization strings gathering pipelines, resulting in 80% time and computing resources savings.
  • Designed and implemented a phonetic sorting algorithm and data fuzzy matching for Japanese.
Technologies: Localization, C#, C++, C#.NET, HTML5, JavaScript, .NET

Software Engineer

2017 - 2020
Freelance
  • Migrated a legacy monolith ASP.NET application to a microservices architecture on Azure.
  • Developed an eCommerce software solution in ASP.NET MVC.
  • Created a tweet sentiment analyzer in Python and TensorFlow to provide signals for a stock trading bot.
  • Created a mobile application for Android in Xamarin.
  • Developed a REST API back end for the above application with ASP.NET Core 2.
  • Finished at the Diamond Tier (top 1%) at the Halite AI Programming Competition by Two Sigma, competing against more than 4,000 developers from 460 organizations, including but not limited to Google, Ubisoft, NASA, Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Facebook.
Technologies: Azure SQL, Jenkins, Twitter API, ASP.NET Core 2, Entity Framework Core, Continuous Integration (CI), Software Architecture, Entity Framework, ASP.NET MVC, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Python, Microsoft SQL Server, AngularJS, Xamarin, Test-driven Development (TDD), SOLID Principles, C#, RESTful Services, .NET

Software Architect | Co-founder

2004 - 2017
eStreamDesk
  • Designed and developed a content management system for dating and social networking sites.
  • Developed an image server for the content management system that is still in use and is well-regarded.
  • Designed and developed an online chat system with support for chat rooms, group chats, audio and video chat, and instant messaging.
  • Designed and developed an online helpdesk SaaS that was featured and selected as Editor's Choice in Google Apps for Your Domain Marketplace.
  • Wrote a custom DNS server to scale the helpdesk service.
  • Implemented peer-to-peer SQL server replication to scale the helpdesk service.
  • Managed a team of three developers, one designer, and one QA.
  • Developed a commercial ASP.NET component that won the MSD2D People's Choice Award.
  • Presented the company's software at CeBIT in Hanover.
Technologies: Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon EC2, Facebook API, Software Architecture, Entity Framework, ASP.NET MVC, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), ASP.NET, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, WebSockets, Microsoft SQL Server, Knockout (Knockout.js), jQuery, Test-driven Development (TDD), SOLID Principles, RESTful Services, C#, .NET

Lead Engineer

2000 - 2006
Make-a-Store
  • Opened an office for the company in Bulgaria, hired developers and designers, and trained the developers.
  • Oversaw the rewriting of the company's legacy software from Perl to PHP.
  • Developed software in C# that automatically synchronizes the client's store inventory with Amazon and eBay.
  • Developed payment integrations with various payment processing companies.
  • Created an eCommerce affiliate module in ASP.NET.
  • Built an automatic scraping tool that downloads product information and images from various eCommerce sites.
Technologies: T-SQL (Transact-SQL), ASP.NET, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C#, PHP, Perl

Web Developer

2000 - 2002
Intermedia, Ltd.
  • Created a PERL script that automatically slices PSD files to HTML.
  • Created software to automatically scrape and store book information and images based on the ISBN code retrieved from a portable scanner.
Technologies: T-SQL (Transact-SQL), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Perl

eStreamDesk

http://www.estreamdesk.com
Help desk and ticketing SaaS platform.
2000 - 2002

Coursework in Industrial Engineering

University of Ruse - Ruse, Bulgaria

1995 - 2000

Diploma in Mathematics, English, Informatics

Baba Tonka High School of Mathematics - Ruse, Bulgaria

AUGUST 2019 - AUGUST 2022

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft

SEPTEMBER 2003 - PRESENT

MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, Entity Framework, Facebook API, Twitter API, TensorFlow, Theano, Keras

Tools

Visual Studio, Postman, Docker Hub, Jenkins

Frameworks

ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core 2, Entity Framework Core, .NET, AngularJS, Knockout (Knockout.js)

Languages

C#, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), C#.NET, Python, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, C++, HTML5

Platforms

Azure, Azure PaaS, Amazon EC2, Docker, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Xamarin

Storage

Azure SQL, Azure Queue Storage, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), SQL Server 2014, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server

Paradigms

Test-driven Development (TDD), Azure DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI)

Other

Software Architecture, Sentiment Analysis, RESTful Services, SOLID Principles, WebSockets, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Localization

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