Spas Vutov
Engineering Director, Blockchain at Nexo
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSpas Vutov is an Engineering Director specializing in blockchain and Web3, with 11 years of experience building teams, architectures, and production-grade products from scratch. He combines an economist's analytical mindset with hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like BTCPayServer's Docker tooling and adapting Lightning and Bitcoin libraries for Bitcoin Gold. At Nexo he led the creation and release of Nexo Wallet, scaled the blockchain organization, and raised engineering standards through coaching and commander’s-intent leadership. His background spans high-throughput systems for betting and commerce, Azure-based enterprise frameworks, and crypto infrastructure monitoring that detects mining anomalies in real time. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, he pairs strong hiring and team-building (500+ screened candidates) with a practical knack for performance optimization and pragmatic architecture.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Project Management in Information Technology, 5,52, Master's degree, Project Management in Information Technology, 5,52 at New Bulgarian UniversityBachelor's degree, Macroeconomics, 5.81, Bachelor's degree, Macroeconomics, 5.81 at University of National and World EconomySoftware Engineering, 5.92, Software Engineering, 5.92 at Software University (softuni.bg)Professional High School of Transport and Energy "Henry Ford"
Български, English
Github Skills (10)
docker10
docker-compose10
dockers10
cicd10
automation9
automations9
bash9
powershell8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
btcpayserver/btcpayserver-docker
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Docker resources for hosting BTCPayServer easily
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 11 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Spas's contributions focused on enhancing the Docker infrastructure for the BTCPayServer project. They added support for Bitcoin Gold (BTG) by modifying the Docker Compose generator to include BTG-related images and commands. The user also integrated the `bgold-cli` tool and made adjustments to scripts related to Docker builds and deployments. Furthermore, the user addressed merge conflicts and made indentation fixes related to the Docker Compose generator.
hostingdocker-resourcesbitcoinddockerbitcoin
Vutov/CheckerApi
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Bot designed to monitor NiceHash API for bids and send IFTTT notifications if the predefined conditions are met.
Contributions:88 commits, 6 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 11 months
nicehash-apitelegram-botapimonitorifttt
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