Svetlin Zhekov
Senior Software Development Consultant at Endava
Bulgaria
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Top SchoolSvetlin Zhekov is a Senior Software Development Consultant with 11+ years delivering hands-on technical leadership across finance, HR, and government digital services. He combines deep Java/J2EE expertise (Hibernate, Spring, Calypso) with practical architecture and team-leading experience, repeatedly modernizing legacy systems and building cloud-ready reporting and UX solutions. Comfortable in both individual contributor and managerial roles, he has led end-to-end projects from UI architecture to back-end optimizations and production performance tuning. Recent contributions include performance-focused work in Rust and Go for DevOps tooling, showing a willingness to adopt modern stacks to squeeze latency and concurrency gains. Based in Bulgaria, he pairs a strong academic background in mathematics and distributed systems with a pragmatic focus on adding immediate, measurable value to projects.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bechelor, Mathematics, Bechelor, Mathematics at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiSpecialist, Automation, Specialist, Automation at TMT Nova Zagora
English, German, Russian
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Github Skills (33)
postgresql10
back-end-development10
java10
tomcat10
performance-optimization10
rust10
jvm9
jersey9
memory-leaks9
jakartaee9
hashmap9
servlet9
cxf9
stringbuilder9
devops9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
antonputra/tutorials
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
DevOps Tutorials
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 PRs, 7 comments, 2 issues in 4 months
Contributions summary:Svetlin focused on optimizing a Rust application for performance, implementing keep-alive, and addressing concurrency issues. They refactored the code, including using a buffered writer and implemented keep-alive functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented performance improvements by parsing the Content-Length header and using deadpool with prepared statements in a Go application. They also contributed to implementing a new Rust application utilizing the Ntex framework.
gcpdevopsansibleserverlesspacker
SvetlinZarev/libscd
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Embedded-hal (async) driver implementations for various SCD-XY devices such as scd30 and scd4x
Contributions:7 releases, 14 PRs, 48 pushes in 11 months
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