Summary
Mitko Nikolov is a Tech Lead Architect and senior full-stack engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, scalable systems for AWS, BP, John Hancock and startups. He blends hands-on backend work in Java, Python, C# and Node.js with React/TypeScript frontends and strong DevOps practice across AWS and Azure, routinely owning CI/CD, security tooling and infrastructure-as-code. At AWS he shipped multiple EFS features and resolved complex production issues; at BP he architected billing and IP protection services for a cloud marketplace. Comfortable leading teams and external agencies, he pairs pragmatic engineering craftsmanship with product-minded architectural decisions that control cost and risk. Based in Sofia and active in open-source, he brings a researcher’s attention to detail—evident from his earlier NLP research and published work—into production-grade systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Northeastern University
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at American University in Bulgaria
English, Bulgarian