Ivan Nikolov
Lead Technical Architect at Adthena
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Nikolov is a Lead Technical Architect with 13 years' experience designing high-performance, data-intensive systems and leading small cross-functional engineering teams from prototype to production. He blends deep functional programming expertise in Scala with practical cloud and big data know-how—Spark, Hadoop, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP and NoSQL stores—while preferring the right tool for the job over technology dogma. Author of Scala Design Patterns and an open-source contributor (including work on the widely used DataStax Cassandra-Spark connector), he brings both thought leadership and hands-on engineering. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, DevOps and ML pipelines, he excels at turning research and prototypes into scalable products for competitive intelligence. A former MSc candidate focused on analytical and scientific databases, he also keeps skills sharp through personal experiments and practical performance-driven engineering.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBSc Computer Systems and Technologies, BSc Computer Systems and Technologies at Technical University of SofiaNational Secondary School of General Education "Sofia" - Sofia
English, Russian, Bulgarian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
scala10
spark10
cassandra10
cassandra-database10
spark-sql9
java7
javas7
eclipse-plugin6
asp-net6
hadoop6
sonarqube6
pmd6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-spark-connector
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
DataStax Connector for Apache Spark to Apache Cassandra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 17 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to improving the Apache Cassandra Spark Connector by removing Scala 2.10 support and upgrading the Spark version. They addressed test failures and updated dependencies. Additionally, the user made changes to the codebase, specifically focusing on correcting and updating the tests used to ensure code quality and correct behavior of the connector.
cassandraconnectorsparkscaladatastax
nikolovivan/scala-design-patterns-v2
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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