Hristo Iliev
Chief Data Scientist
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolHristo Iliev is a Chief Data Scientist with a PhD in atomic and molecular physics and over 17 years of hands-on experience in high-performance computing, research, and software engineering. He leads data-driven product work at NOTO, applying rigorous scientific methods and performance-aware ML engineering learned during roles at RWTH Aachen and Sofia University. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has steered teams in fraud and compliance, real-time analytics, and HPC system administration, while also contributing intermittently to the Stack Overflow community. Known for a pragmatic, Roofline-model-informed approach to performance optimization, he combines deep numerical expertise with practical production deployments. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, he’s not actively looking for roles and prefers correspondence that acknowledges his real name.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High Performance Computing, Physics, High Performance Computing, Physics at The University of EdinburghBSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
73,499reputation
4.7mreached
1,297answers
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compilation
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x86-64
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ubuntu
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authentication
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pyspark
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loops
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Github Skills (149)
github10
multithreading10
openmp10
gitea10
permanent10
javascript10
disqus10
linux10
parallel-processing10
golang10
cli10
git10
npm-registry10
cicd10
gitlab10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hiliev/py-zfs-rescue
Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
A very minimal user-space implementation of ZFS in Python and a tool for salvaging data from broken pools
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 10 months
pythonzfspoolsbrokenuser-space
notolytix/hbase-connectors
Aug 2021 - Nov 2024
Apache HBase Connectors
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
apache-hbaseconnectorsqlapachebig-data
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