Stanislav Atanasov
Guest Lecturer at Bulgarian Cybersecurity Association/ Българска асоциация по киберсигурност
Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolStanislav Atanasov is a versatile IT professional and educator with 12 years of hands-on experience spanning mainframes (z/OS), Linux/Windows systems, networking, and web development. He combines operational depth—years supporting z/OS environments at HPE and DXC—with academic leadership as a lecturer in digital forensics, reverse engineering and AI/ML for public administration and universities. As CEO of an IT services firm and task lead at a regional digital innovation hub, he bridges consultancy, product delivery and cybersecurity practice, and contributes to open-source PHP projects such as phpBB with back-end enhancements. His recent shift into teaching AI and practical ML applications for government highlights a rare blend of legacy systems expertise and modern AI literacy. Fluent in both technical delivery and curriculum design, he focuses on making complex technologies practical and auditable for real-world teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Cyber security and cyber forensics, Master's degree, Cyber security and cyber forensics at University of Library Studies and Information TechnologiesUniversity of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"bachelor, Computer Networks, bachelor, Computer Networks at Нов Български УниверситетElectrotechnics, Electrotechnics at Technical University of Varna
Bulgarian, English, Russian, French
Github Skills (10)
event-driven10
eventing10
php10
phpbb10
modification9
databases8
interaction8
database8
mysql7
mysql-db7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
phpbb/phpbb
Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
phpBB Development: phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin board written in PHP. This repository also contains the history of version 2.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 53 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Stanislav primarily contributed to the phpBB project by adding and modifying code related to core functionalities and extending the system with new events for extensions. Their work involved modifying templates and PHP files, specifically focusing on the user control panel (UCP) and private messaging (PM) systems. The user also expanded the `core.memberlist_view_profile` event and improved the migration process for custom profile fields.
bulletin-boardbulletinforumphpphpbb
satanasov/postlove
Jun 2014 - Dec 2019
The Post love extension fo PhpBB 3.1
Contributions:5 releases, 199 commits, 37 PRs in 5 years 7 months
phpphpbb
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