About me (CV)

• Design and deliver courses in programming, algorithms, data structures and software engineering.
• Teach large groups of students in both online and in-person formats.

• Act as court-appointed expert in software, web systems and digital evidence.
• Prepare detailed technical analyses and formal expert reports for civil and other court cases.

Design and development of cloud-based legal-tech and business systems. Selected projects:

• StratusBK – Bankruptcy case management system for attorneys with integration with US courts for automated case filing and case information gathering, finance management, document processing, CMS, CRM, calendar with case events, etc.
• AccentInsights – Platform to manage and track public employee activities, helping managers retain team members and reduce retraining costs.
• Customer Experience Enhancer – Modern, secure, cloud-based plug-and-play solution enabling multiple interaction channels with customers (phone, email, SMS, chat, web form), agent work tracking, agent management, detailed marketing reports and machine-learning-based optimization suggestions.
• Delinquency Cases System – System for attorneys and creditors with extended information about US bankruptcy cases (Chapter 13), integrating several data providers into a unified platform for analysis and visualization.
• Court Calendar – Online system to download US court events and systemize them in an easy-to-use UI.
• Semrad Portal – Client and employee web portal with information about cases, leads, appointments and marketing data.

• Delivered more than 350 lectures in Telerik Academy.
• Main architect of TelerikAcademy.com: learning management system (LMS), test system, attendance system, forum system, anti-cheat system, certification system and others.
• Main architect and developer of BGCoder.com – Open Judge System (source code):
  • Web interface for users and administrators (ASP.NET MVC).
  • Windows service for compiling, executing and checking user submissions.
  • Restricted process executor using Windows APIs.
  • Compiler wrappers and custom checkers.
  • Anti-cheat system for detecting code similarity.
• Showcase System – best.telerikacademy.com (source code).
• Trainer in Telerik Software Academy, Telerik School Academy, Telerik Algo Academy and Telerik Academy Plus.
• Co-author and editor of the book “Introduction to Programming with C#” (Bulgarian and English).
• Video lectures: nikolay.it/Videos.

Selected websites:

• dela.bg (ASP.NET Core)
• musicx.mx (ASP.NET Core, Blazor)
• presscenters.com (ASP.NET Core)
• textbg.com (ASP.NET Core)
• nikolay.it (ASP.NET Core)
• rubixstudio.com (PHP)
• reprobiomed.eu (PHP)
• uniken.bg (PHP)
• vsepeta.com (PHP)
• ribarskatahija.com (initially PHP, later rewritten in ASP.NET MVC)

No longer active: managerteams.com, prepishi.com, vapostolov.eu, agency-angel.com, zamunda.info, training-bg.net, zvyn.com, jaltici.com, selectronic-bg.com, aznepusha.bg (all PHP).

• Numerous open source projects: github.com/NikolayIT
• Learning management system: telerikacademy.com (closed source)
• Online judge system for programming competitions: bgcoder.com (source code)
• BlogSystem written in ASP.NET Core: github.com/NikolayIT/nikolay.it
• Santase card game engine with AI, published in the Microsoft Store (source code)
• Texas Hold’em Poker card game engine (source code)
• Belot card game engine (source code)
• RatioMaster.NET: ratiomaster.net (source code)
• NStudio – no longer active
• NRPG Skyper – no longer active
• NPMG Salary – used by the administration of the National High School of Science and Mathematics for calculating salaries and printing documents
• AstroPlatform – project for the NASA Space Apps Challenge Bulgaria (source code)
• tDNA (closed source) – project for Telerik Hackathon 2013: mobile app using Kendo Mobile and Telerik Backend Services with dashboard, news, statistics and data for Telerik employees from Active Directory

• Active participant in TopCoder algorithmic tournaments
• National Olympiad in IT (2007; 2008 – 1st place in IT test and 1st place in desktop applications project category; 2009 – 1st place in Internet applications project category)
• National Olympiad in Informatics (2006–2009)
• National Autumn, Winter and Spring Competitions in Informatics (2006–2009)

Master’s degree in “Software Technologies in the Internet”.

Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science (module: Computer Programming).

Computer Science.

Graduated with best results.

Participation in various national training camps in informatics.

Specialty: Chemistry and Biology. Graduated with excellent marks.

Graduated with excellent marks.