Rumyana Neykova
Lecturer at Brunel University London
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRumyana Neykova is a software developer and lecturer based in London with 14 years of experience building desktop and web applications on the Microsoft stack and teaching programming at university level. She combines academic research (PhD and postdoctoral work at Imperial College) with practical industry experience at companies like Telerik and Microsoft, bringing strong expertise in C#, .NET technologies, databases and application lifecycle. Beyond .NET she has contributed notable back-end work to popular open-source Python messaging projects (Celery, kombu, py-amqp), implementing core AMQP features and worker control improvements. Her profile blends hands-on systems programming, academic rigour, and a passion for mentoring the next generation of developers, with a track record of clarifying complex distributed-messaging behavior through code and tests.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Technology Enterpreneurship, MSc, Technology Enterpreneurship at Sofia University St.Kliment OhridskiMSc, Computing Specialism(Software Engineering), MSc, Computing Specialism(Software Engineering) at Imperial College LondonBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Github Skills (17)
kombu10
messaging10
python10
amqp10
amqp-client10
testing10
celery10
message-queue10
rabbitmq10
task-queue10
job-queue10
queue10
workqueue10
distributed-systems9
python-lib8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
celery/kombu
Aug 2012 - Jul 2014
Messaging library for Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Rumyana focused on enhancing the `kombu` messaging library for Python, primarily by adding and testing features related to exchange-to-exchange bindings. They implemented new functionalities like the `exchange_bind` and `exchange_unbind` methods and added support for multiple queue bindings. Furthermore, the user modified example files to utilize these new exchange binding capabilities, demonstrating the practical application of their changes.
python-librarykombupythonredisasyncio
celery/celery
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 29 days
Contributions summary:Rumyana primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Celery task queue, focusing on worker-related improvements and control commands. They implemented new commands for managing actors within the worker, enabling starting and stopping of actors. Additionally, the user refactored and improved existing consumer classes and the worker control panel, demonstrating a deep understanding of the system's inner workings. Their work also included merging branches and minor improvements.
queue-taskspythonworkerqueued-jobstask-runner
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