Emil Gotsev
Engineering Manager at Trading 212
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolEmil Gotsev is an engineering leader with 13 years of hands-on Java, Go, and Python experience who now focuses on growing high-performing teams and streamlining delivery as Engineering Manager at Trading 212. He blends pragmatic software craftsmanship—XP, Scrum, and TDD—with product-minded architecture work, having led payments and cards domains through legacy modernization and greenfield product delivery. Emil favors simplicity and proven engineering principles (Spring ecosystem, RDBMS-first), but brings practical familiarity with key-value stores, Cassandra, and frontend work in React/Angular. He’s played roles across the stack and organization—from architect and product owner to interviewer and org designer—helping introduce cross-functional teams and senior career ladders. A former programming teacher and bioinformatics co-founder, he pairs mentorship instincts with a taste for real-world problem solving and measurable delivery improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Professional qualification - 3rd degree Software technologies, Professional qualification - 3rd degree Software technologies at Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), associated with Technical University-SofiaComputer Science, Computer Science at Universidad de GranadaBachelor Sofware engineering, Bachelor Sofware engineering at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (40)
spring10
variants9
java9
rsql9
spring-boot9
genomics9
version-control8
data-models8
unstructured-data8
bioinformatics8
cml8
machine-learning7
dvc7
ai7
annotation-processor7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
egotsev/elsys
Oct 2012 - Oct 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 2 PRs, 48 pushes in 4 years
elsyssource-files
elsys/oop2018-2019
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 45 pushes in 9 months
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