Nikolay Stoitsev
Staff Engineer at Alpaca
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolNikolay Stoitsev is a staff engineer and seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience building and operating high-performance, large-scale distributed systems across storage, payments, and market data domains. He has led engineering organizations at StorPool and HALO Diagnostics and now shapes low-latency, high-throughput market data infrastructure at Alpaca, bringing deep expertise in reliability, scalability, and sub-millisecond latency design. Nikolay combines hands-on systems engineering with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and creating teams that consistently deliver predictable, high-quality outcomes. His background spans full-stack development, platform services, and data-intensive systems from roles at Uber, VMware, and CloudSigma, reflecting a rare breadth across infrastructure and product. An active public speaker and educator, he frequently shares knowledge at conferences and university labs, translating complex technical concepts into practical engineering practice. Based in Sofia, he pairs an MSc in Data Mining with pragmatic production experience, enabling systems that scale from terabytes to petabytes while meeting stringent availability and performance goals.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Data Mining, Master of Science (M.S.), Data Mining at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiLeadership, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Entrepreneurship at Aspire Academy
Bulgarian, English, German
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Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stoitsev/stoitsev.github.io
May 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:61 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 9 months
stoitsev/University-homeworks
May 2011 - Mar 2015
Contributions:56 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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