Ivan Nikolov
Senior Software Engineer at Financial Times
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Nikolov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sofia with six years of professional experience building software for entertainment and media companies. He has strong C++, Python, and system programming skills honed across game studios (Gameloft, Playwing) and product teams, and now shapes backend systems at the Financial Times. Ivan’s background blends low-level system design and gameplay/network subsystems with modern software engineering practices, enabling him to bridge performance-sensitive code and production-grade services. A Sofia University CS graduate, he brings a pragmatic R&D mindset from early-career roles and a track record of shipping complex features under product deadlines. Notably, his career path reflects a shift from anti-cheat and game internals to scalable media platform engineering, highlighting versatility across domains.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Specialty: “Programming and information technologies”, System programming, Specialty: “Programming and information technologies”, System programming at Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), associated with Technical University-SofiaBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Bulgarian, Russian
Github Skills (98)
universal-publishing10
circleci-orb9
aggregates9
entrypoint9
pac9
orb8
uri8
umbrella8
mappings8
paw8
publish7
neo4j7
api7
aggregate7
endpoint7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/public-annotations-api
Nov 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:10 releases, 10 reviews, 13 commits in 2 years 5 months
universal-publishingupp
Financial-Times/concept-rw-elasticsearch
Mar 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:7 releases, 6 reviews, 3 PRs in 3 years 8 months
elasticuniversal-publishingamazonuppopensearch
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