Plamen Petkov
Technical Manager at PLACAD
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolPlamen Petkov is a technical manager with 12 years of engineering and leadership experience, based in Sofia, Bulgaria, who blends hands-on development with production engineering and manufacturing expertise. He leads PLACAD’s engineering studio while also serving as Technical Director at an injection-mold firm, demonstrating a rare mix of software, mechanical design and process leadership across industries. Plamen contributes to open-source projects like NativeScript/android, improving runtime stability and exception handling by patching both Java and C++ V8 integrations—work that enhances debugging for mobile JavaScript. His background spans manufacturing roles at Danfoss and Sensata and long-term product and production leadership, giving him strong systems thinking from prototype to mass production. Known for a pragmatic “everything is possible” mindset, he focuses on durable, debuggable systems and shares knowledge broadly to lift team capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Goethe Institut - SofiaMachine and Device Building, Machine and Device Building at Technical University SofiaEconomy, Economy at Trade and Banking High School - Sofia
English, German
Github Skills (10)
v810
javas10
c-language10
exception-handling10
cprogramming-language10
java10
android9
javascript9
android-developer9
android-developers9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
NativeScript/android
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
NativeScript for Android using v8
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 641 commits, 273 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Plamen primarily addressed issues related to handling and managing exceptions within the Android NativeScript runtime environment. They implemented features to enable JavaScript code to handle uncaught exceptions, including improvements to the reporting of errors and stack traces, and enhancements to the handling of final fields. Their work involved changes to both Java code for the Android platform and C++ code interacting with the V8 engine. These changes improved stability and provided better debugging capabilities.
javascriptcoreruntimeandroidnativescriptcross-platform
Plamen5kov/YouTubePlaylists
Nov 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push in 5 months
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