Boian Ivanov is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 9 years of experience building scalable backend systems and polished user interfaces using TypeScript and AWS. He has led engineering efforts across startups and media firms—pioneering a real-time tracking platform at Hyper SQ and shaping internal tooling and backend architecture at DMG Media and iTech Media. Comfortable across serverless architectures (Lambda, DynamoDB, Terraform, Cognito) and modern front-end frameworks (Svelte, Vue), he focuses on pragmatic, observable systems that balance speed and security. An active open-source contributor, he improved AWS Data API raw SQL mapping and metadata handling in the popular drizzle-orm TypeScript ORM. Currently at Checkatrade, he pairs hands-on engineering with cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality, production-ready features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at New Bulgarian University
Maintenance of computer systems, applications and networks, Computer Science, A, Maintenance of computer systems, applications and networks, Computer Science, A at 1st EPAL Serres, Greece
Headless TypeScript ORM with a head. Runs on Node, Bun and Deno. Lives on the Edge and yes, it's a JavaScript ORM too 😅
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 9 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Boian primarily focused on improving the AWS Data API integration for the Drizzle ORM. Their work involved fixing issues with raw SQL data mapping, refactoring the code to correctly pass metadata, and adding comprehensive tests for raw SQL statements, specifically with the AWS Data API. Additionally, the user's commits included merging of branch "main" and general refactoring changes.
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 years 8 months
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Boian Ivanov - Senior Software Engineer at Checkatrade