Nikola Petrov
Member Of Engineering at poolside
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolNikola Petrov is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building distributed systems, semantic web platforms, and deployment/configuration tooling from Sofia, Bulgaria. He has driven core engineering work at companies ranging from Ontotext—where he helped build GraphDB and scalable crawling and connector systems—to senior platform roles at Uber handling global fare calculation and reporting at massive scale. More recently he contributed to fintech automation at Bound and now continues shaping engineering at poolside, combining backend architecture with operational excellence. Nikola specializes in turning research-grade semantic technologies into production-ready systems and enjoys exploring new languages and tech to extract business value. Colleagues know him for pragmatic design decisions that balance scalability, compliance, and maintainability, and for quietly owning hard end-to-end integration problems.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer science, Bachelor's degree Computer science at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiSimeon Radev
English, German, Russian, Bulgarian
Github Skills (138)
rdf4j10
http-api10
testing10
semantic-web10
shacl10
mocks10
golang10
tooltips10
html-pdf10
java10
stubbing10
mocking10
rdf10
sparql10
unit-testing10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nikolavp/nikolavp.github.io
Mar 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 8 months
nikolavp/approval
Jan 2014 - Aug 2016
Approval is a reusable library for doing approval testing
Contributions:105 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
testingapproval-testingreusableapproval
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