// about me

JetBrains
Currently I am working at JetBrains as an intern under the WebStorm team on my JSEval plugin. I've got to say that this environment has been one of the most motivating ones I have ever been in. (WIP)

Manometric
As a former Software and QA engineer at Manometric, I was responsible for assuring the quality of its services by providing extensive end-to-end automatic testing as well as unit and component tests. Additionally, I maintained several automations within its communication systems. I worked there for two months over the summer of 2024

Delft Hyperloop
During my time at Delft Hyperloop , as part of the Sense & Control department, I was responsible for developing the GUI for monitoring and controlling the Hyperloop pod. The process involved careful designing of the software architecture and communication with my fellow Embedded Engineers who programmed internal control of the pod.

Within this context of mission critical software and its timeliness and liveness constraints, the speed and reactivity of the front end were vital. The GUI was built to sustain constant flow of data while also allowing for near instant control back to the running pod.

My work at Delft Hyperloop continues to this day as an Alumni who brings advice and help for the next generations of teams. The Serpenta standard and GUI got another maintainer in the name of Harald Toth. His brilliant work on the software of Delft Hyperloop 9 together with that of Andreas Tsatsanis, in my opinion, was crucial for DH09 success in securing the well-deserved first place in the European Hyperloop Week 2025.

Hobbies
I love skateboarding, history and bike-riding. My best performance is doing a 238km marathon for 15 hours.

Music
I am a big fan of rap music, more specifically: Eminem, JPEGMAFIA and Joey Valence & Brae. Hereby, I include that I do not condemn or condone their political beliefs or similar, and I am only listening to their music.

Nevertheless, I also love metal core: Bring Me the Horizon, especially their "POSTHUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR" album.

I don't know exactly what genre are Glass Animals... but I love them as well.

In case you are open to listening to Bulgarian music, definitely recommend Grigovor and Gena.

Background
I was born in Burgas, Bulgaria. In school, I fell in love with math and lego. Honestly, I was thinking of becoming an architect... but then I played Minecraft for the first time. A few years later I tried making my own game in GameMaker Studio following the tutorials of Heartbeast. To this day, I remember their words (which I am going to rephrase since I don't remember them exactly):

"I love programming because it let's me create my own world."

Just before 8th grade I started learning web development. I started High-school in the Mathematical School in my city. There I learned more programming languages and algorithms, but I was really keen on studying myself in my free time.

After a couple of failed attempts on competitions earlier, in 11th grade I founded team Praxidike together with three fellow friends of mine. We won 4 competitions on local and national level, being qualified for the global NASA Challenge.

After finishing high school, I enrolled in the Computer Science & Engineering bachelor of TU Delft. In my second year there I joined the Honours Programme of the university with a GPA of 8.7. Now I am still there doing my masters whilst working at JetBrains and being a teaching assistant.