Christo Mitov
Implementation Consultant
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristo Mitov is an implementation consultant and founder with 12 years of experience bridging hands-on full‑stack engineering, sales engineering, and product implementation. He has led teams and technical transformations at organizations from Scotiabank Digital Factory to startups, moving monolithic backends to microservices and shipping end-to-end web and mobile solutions. As CEO of XTO Solutions and a senior lead at Hiveway, he pairs client-facing delivery with deep technical ownership—able to translate requirements into scalable architectures and repeatable implementations. An active open-source contributor, he extended the textract library to parse images and OpenDocument files, adding parsers, tests, and docs that improved real-world document handling. Based in Old Toronto, he blends entrepreneurial drive with practical engineering discipline and a knack for turning messy integration problems into reliable, documented workflows.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science at McMaster University
English, French
Github Skills (11)
data-mining10
text-mining10
python10
natural-language-processing10
image-processing9
file-parsing9
pkzip8
xml8
testing8
zip8
unzip8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
deanmalmgren/textract
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Christo primarily contributed to the textract library by adding support for parsing different file types, specifically focusing on image formats and OpenDocument Text (.odt) files. Their work involved implementing parsers using libraries like `zipfile`, `xml.dom.minidom`, and `tesseract`, and updating existing code for improved compliance and functionality. They also introduced tests for new file types and improved the documentation to include installation instructions for new dependencies.
nlppythonextract-textdata-miningtext-mining
HackingTV/DefectorBot
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 22 days
discordbotdiscord-bot
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