Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — 2024
2024 — 2024
San Francisco, California, United States
2020 — 2023
2020 — 2023
Project lead: Motivo Learning - subscription-based video-streaming platform for continuing education.
• Increased product offerings by building a live & on-demand online video platform for continuing education certification in 6 months by coordinating product, content, design, marketing, support teams.
• Designed and implemented a form-generator for online test creation and evaluation.
• Designed and implemented an HLS video transcoding pipeline to handle content creation.
Project lead: Billing initiatives
• Eliminated >80 hours/month of manual processing by building an automatic monthly reporting system.
• Reduced refund and error rate by 25% by building a billing tracking dashboard.
• Removed >20 hours/month of manual payouts by building a Stripe Connect integration.
• Enabled movement of $300,000+/month by rebuilding the billing system to enable 2-day payments.
• Reduced user-error and support interactions by 80% by rebuilding the core scheduling workflow.
• Reduced user acquisition time by 60% by removing operational involvement and self-serving user matching.
• Increased team productivity by conducting 30+ hours 1:1 pair-programming sessions with junior engineers.
• Reduced CI build times by 30%.
• Improved product launch cycles by building and improving our in-house feature flag system.
2015 — 2020
2015 — 2020
• Improved learners’ code skills by providing one-to-one lessons, code reviews on >600 projects, individual learning and career paths, and support in debugging applications.
• Leveraged knowledge in web development, software engineering, customer service, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Git, Sass, jQuery, Java, PHP, NodeJS, Express, and SQL.
2019 — 2020
2019 — 2020
San Francisco Bay Area
• Reduced monthly incidents by ~80% and reduced p99 latency by ~20% in search microservice by optimizing Elasticsearch cluster sizing;
• Reduced React bundle sizes by 30% and decreased time to first paint by ~50ms by implementing React lazy-loading on a view page with millions of views monthly;
• Led Elasticsearch knowledge sharing sessions;
• Maintained and developed features for millions of users across our Django backend and React frontend;
• Leveraged knowledge in: Typescript, NodeJS, React, Python, Django, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.
Education
Tufts University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
2014 — 2018
American College of Sofia
High School
2009 — 2014