Aleksandar Ivanov
Principal Engineer at Funding Circle UK
Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksandar Ivanov is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating resilient platforms for financial services, currently leading platform efforts at Funding Circle UK. He combines deep Ruby and backend expertise—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the ruby-amqp/hutch project—with a strong SRE mindset focused on crisis prevention and rapid resolution. Comfortable across full-stack and infrastructure concerns, he mentors teams, drives cross-project coordination, and routinely supports peers and the business to unblock delivery. He also teaches programming periodically and freelances for SMBs in Bulgaria, reflecting a commitment to knowledge sharing and practical problem solving beyond his day job.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information systems, Bachelor, Information systems at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiProfessional Qualification 3rd Degree, Systems Programming, Professional Qualification 3rd Degree, Systems Programming at Technological School Electronic Systems (TUES), associated with Technical University-Sofia
Bulgarian, English, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
rabbitmq10
rspec10
ruby10
message-queue9
task-queue8
message-bus8
queue8
richfaces6
taglib6
jsf6
facelets6
post6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ruby-amqp/hutch
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
A system for processing messages from RabbitMQ.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Aleksandar refactored core components of the `hutch` library, a system for processing messages from RabbitMQ. Their work focused on improving code organization and extensibility by transitioning from instance variables to methods for accessing critical components like connections, channels, and exchanges. They also added new methods for managing RabbitMQ connections and channels. Additionally, the user added and refined specifications to ensure that the methods added and refactored worked as expected.
rabbitmq
bliof/800x600
Dec 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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