Ivan Velkov
Software Engineer at Gem
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolIvan Velkov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and contributing to production-grade projects across enterprise and startup environments. Based in Sofia, he has worked at VMware, Hyperscience, Payhawk and currently Gem, pairing hands-on engineering with teaching roles in algorithms and OOP at Sofia University. He has practical experience with build and deployment tooling, evidenced by contributions to the widely used pyVmomi VMware Python bindings where he updated packaging, dependencies and Python support. Holding a master's in Artificial Intelligence and a bachelor's in Informatics, Ivan blends strong academic foundations with real-world system maintenance and modernization. Colleagues know him for quietly improving developer experience and for navigating legacy codebases to deliver dependable upgrades.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiSecondary education Mathematics and Informatics, Secondary education Mathematics and Informatics at National High School of Mathematics and Science
Bulgarian, English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
dependency-management10
python10
setuptools10
versioninfo10
software-update10
api10
versioning10
vaapi10
constants6
nginx6
php6
cookie6
sql6
css6
asterisk-ami6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/pyvmomi
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
VMware vSphere API Python Bindings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ivan's commits primarily focused on modifying the `setup.py` file to update the project's metadata and dependencies. They fixed metadata, added a dependency requirement for pywin32 related to SSO module and bumped the pyVmomi version. Further, they updated the supported Python versions in the `setup.py` and README, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's build and deployment processes.
apipythonvmware-vspherepython-bindingsvsphere-api
Appsalar/OOP
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:40 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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