Iliyan Borisov
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Times
Svishtov, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolIliyan Borisov is a Senior Software Engineer at the Financial Times with eight years of professional experience building high-performance, reliable services primarily in Go. He started as a Java trainee and progressed through roles at SWISS Dentaprime before joining FT, where he helps deliver scalable, user-focused products for millions of readers using agile practices and robust CI/CD pipelines. Iliyan combines a formal background in Computer Software Engineering with over a decade of hands-on Linux experience, giving him deep operational insight into production systems. Comfortable across Java, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript and React/Node, he blends backend performance tuning with practical front-end integration. Colleagues describe him as a continual learner who seeks quality and innovation while translating newsroom needs into resilient engineering solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Technical University of Varna
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Github Skills (58)
integrate9
universal-publishing9
exports9
varnish8
monitors8
circleci-orb8
mapper7
paw7
powerset7
publish7
mongodb6
permutation6
pac5
aggregates5
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/upp-next-video-mapper
Aug 2022 - Sep 2024
UPP video mapper that will integrate the new video editor used by FT
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
universal-publishingvideo-editoruppvideomapper
Financial-Times/upp-next-video-annotations-mapper
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
Maps the Next Video Editor annotations to UPP annotations.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
annotationsuniversal-publishingvideo-editoruppvideo
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