Nikolay Simitchiyski
Senior Software Engineer
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Nikolay Simitchiyski
Senior Software Engineer
About Me
A young motivated software engineer who strives to work effectively in a positive and friendly environment. Interested in Java/Spring tech stack.
- Age 28
- Location Sofia, Bulgaria
My passions
Gaming
Playing the guitar
Photography
Dogs
Hiking
Cars
Career interests
Work-life balance
New technologies
Friendly work environment
Favourite Books
Effective Java
By Joshua Bloch
Modern Java in Action
By A. Mycroft, M. Fusco and R. Urma
Spring in Action
By Craig Walls
Weaknesses
Self-criticism
Tend to talk too much
Lack of confidence
Presenting to large groups
Resume
Experience
2020 - Current
Tick42Senior Software Engineer
Working on a financial trading platform for our biggest client JPMorgan Chase & Co
Projects:
- Internal Trading platform - working on "near-realtime" financial trading platform in a cloud-based microservice oriented environment.
2019 - 2020
PrimeHolding JSCSoftware engineer
Worked on a banking software tailored for microfinance instiutions and SACCOs
Projects:
- Awamo - core banking service software tailored for MFIs and SACCOs. With the team we developed a new Credit Default Insurance module in the existing system - Proof of existence & authenticity of the insurance document is uploaded on a public blockchain upon disbursement (verifiable by Insurance Partners and the final clients).
2018 - 2019
Musala soft JSCSoftware engineer
Worked on a project in the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (NRA)
Projects:
- NRA Control - was part of the team developing a web based document management system that supports the Control functions in NRA
- NRA Control Digital Signature - I developed a java based REST service which handles the signing of all documents in NRA Control. I used the open-source library Europa DSS developed by Nowina Solutions.
2016 - 2019
DMG Web LtdJunior Software engineer
Worked on a java web based document management system for Actavis. The system processes orders between Actavis internal systems and their clients systems. I developed OCR Module - a rest service based on Tessseract
Education
2015 - Ongoing
Sofia, BulgariaBacholer's degree in IT
New Bulgarian University
2008 - 2013
Smolyan, BulgariaHigh school - IT
High School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Vasil Levski
Languages
Bulgarian
100%
English
56%
Coding Skills
Java
66%
Spring
60%
SQL
56%
Buzzwords
- Angular
- Git
- HTML
- Java
- Spring Cloud Config
- Spring Cloud Discovery
- Spring Data
- Spring Integration
- Spring MVC
- Spring Security
- Spring Web
- SQL
- TDD
- Thymeleaf