Stefan Vlahov
Application Engineer
Mount Prospect, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolStefan Vlahov is a development lead with a decade of experience modernizing legacy monoliths into cloud-native microservices while leading small agile teams and practicing TDD/XP. He has driven migrations from on-prem platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry to OpenShift and AWS, and built high-throughput APIs and customer-facing platforms handling tens of thousands of daily calls. Stefan pairs full-stack fluency (Java/Spring, Vue.js, TypeScript) with a product-minded approach—running feature deep dives, demos, and cross-team deployment coordination to minimize customer impact. He’s experimenting with agentic AI to boost team productivity and is building tools aimed at engineering leaders who wrestle with legacy systems. Based in Mount Prospect, IL, he combines operational production support experience with a track record of creating revenue-generating B2B apps and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ruby Part-Time Program 2016, Ruby Part-Time Program 2016 at Startup InstituteNanodegree Intro to Self-Driving Cars, Nanodegree Intro to Self-Driving Cars at UdacityWeb Development, Web Development at Actualize Coding Bootcamp & ApprenticeshipBachelor of Science Business Management; Marketing, Bachelor of Science Business Management; Marketing at Elmhurst UniversityEast Leyden High School
Bulgarian, English
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Github Skills (7)
yeoman7
ruby6
generator5
nodejs5
scaffolding5
javascript4
cli3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stefanvlahov/brain-app
Jun 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 6 years
stefanvlahov/toy_app
Mar 2016 - May 2022
This is the toy app I built using the Ruby on Rails Tutorial!
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
ruby-on-railsrailstoyrubyruby-on-rails-tutorial
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