Simeon Manolov
Researcher at GATE Institute
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolSimeon Manolov is a versatile researcher and seasoned backend engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput FinTech systems, now based in Sofia. He has migrated mission-critical Ruby services to Elixir and Go, improving performance, modularity and operational costs, and has deep practial experience with Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and event-driven architectures. Comfortable across languages (Ruby, Elixir, Go, Python, JavaScript) he designed payment, anti-fraud and transaction processing services under PCI-DSS constraints and enhanced observability to significantly reduce downtime. An active contributor to open-source projects, he’s implemented tracing clients and AWS signers and made networking-focused server changes to the popular vcmi Heroes III engine. Now transitioning toward AI and Reinforcement Learning research, he combines production-grade engineering rigor with curiosity-driven experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
National High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences "Ak. L. Chakalov"Master's degree Computer Technologies and Applied Programming, Master's degree Computer Technologies and Applied Programming at Technical University of SofiaCisco Certified Network Associate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Cisco Certified Network Associate Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Academy
English, German
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cmake10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
boost9
concurrency8
sdl7
windows6
linux6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vcmi/vcmi
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024
Open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 14 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Simeon primarily focused on server-side modifications, including adding support for TBB in the build process. They implemented random port assignment and connection logic for the server and modified network components. Furthermore, the user addressed code review comments and adjusted the battle turn order. The changes involved modifying server and client-side code related to networking and game logic.
cmakegamemagicc-plus-plussdl2
smanolloff/vcmi-gym
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:356 pushes, 12 branches, 6 comments in 1 year 3 months
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