Ivan Nikolov
Lead Technical Architect @Adthena
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Technical Architect @Adthena
London, GB
My role as a Lead Technical Architect at Adthena involves designing and building new innovative solutions for the competitive intelligence industry. I work at all stages of software development from ideation to final delivery. I also lead a team of data and platform engineers who work with me on building products and tools our customers love.As an architect I get the chance to experiment with various technologies and write prototypes that we can then turn into working applications. This allows our team to be confident that we always choose the right tool for the problems we\'re trying to solve.I am deeply involved in the development of the products I design and architect. Our engineering department is small and I work together with the team on different technologies covering quite a broad stack. I am involved in front end, back end, security, DevOPS and system administration.I have participated in due diligence efforts both from the side of Adthena when talking to potential investors as well as when Adthena acquired Adgooroo.I like helping people get better at their jobs and so when I find time and motivation I also try to blog.Some of the most used technologies at Adthena are:Back end: Java and Scala with different libraries and frameworks (Play Framework, Akka, Dropwizard, etc.), Python and bash scripting. I use Spark, Cassandra, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, S3, Redshift, RabbitMQ, ELK Stack, Airflow, Kubernetes and EMR on a daily basis.Front end: React and others.System administration: Ansible and Terraform to manage and provision hundreds of machines on AWS and other cloud providers. We also use Docker and Kubernetes standalone and on EKS for building micro services.I care a lot about efficiency, high performance, beautiful code and architecting the right solution using the right tools for the job.
EDUCATION
Technical University of Sofia
BSc, Computer Systems and Technologies
The University of Edinburgh
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science
National Secondary School of General Education "Sofia" - Sofia
General Education, Programming, Mathematics
SKILLS
ABOUT IVAN NIKOLOV
A strong believer in high performance, clean and efficient software. Striving to be technology agnostic and use the right tools for the job.I really enjoy functional programming and especially Scala.My current interests are in the area of research, machine learning and AI, Cloud Computing and BigData. I use technologies like Spark, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, the Scala programming language, Play Framework, Java, Python, Cassandra, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Kubernetes and many others on a daily basis.I am the author of the Scala Design Patterns book (Released in 2 editions, ISBN-13: 97••••••••00 and ISBN-13: 97••••••••05), published by Packt Publishing.I like using open source software and I have contributions to a couple of projects including Ansible and the Datastax Spark Cassandra connector.Experience and other interests:C, C++, Java, Scala, Databases (MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Firebird), Redshift, Python, BigData, MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Scalding, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Play Framework, HTML, Javascript, XML, Data Cleaning, Database query optimization, NoSQL DBs, Querying XML (XPath, XQuery), Mobile application development, Streaming applications, Web services, SOAP, JSON, AJAX, Design patterns, Hacker attack protection, Machine Learning and AI, data-intensive applications, Data Integration, Data Exchange.I keep my skills up to date by reading blogs and articles and experimenting with my own personal prototypes and projects.At university I studied MSc in Computer Science, specializing in Analytical and Scientific Databases - this included deep studying of SQL engines and highly scalable cloud computing paradigms and technologies (MapReduce, Hadoop).
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