Vladimir Ivanov
Senior Software Developer at Beauty Bytes Pro
Kyustendil, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Ivanov is a senior software developer based in Sofia with over a decade of professional experience and two decades of hands-on work in web technologies like PHP, WordPress and e-commerce platforms. He blends backend expertise—database schema design, SQL migrations and API work—with frontend and DevOps experience, having built SPAs, Node.js tooling and tested microservices in Symfony and React ecosystems. A pragmatic freelancer and founder of a small company, he excels at modernizing legacy systems, automating processes and delivering SEO-aware web solutions for clients. His open-source contributions include backend and database improvements to Photoview, where he optimized storage via MD5 path keys and expanded UTF8MB4 support—showing attention to data integrity and internationalization. Colleagues value him for reliably shipping practical, maintainable systems and mentoring through technical training engagements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
"John Atanasov" Stara ZagoraBachelor, Social Work with medicine profile, Bachelor, Social Work with medicine profile at Trakia University
English
Github Skills (13)
go10
photo-gallery10
sql10
database-design10
mysql10
mariadb10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
self-hosting7
docker6
dockers6
exif5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
photoview/photoview
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 52 commits, 16 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir's primary focus involved enhancing the backend functionality and database schema of the photo gallery application. They refactored the codebase to utilize MD5 hashes for unique path identification within the database, optimizing key length and ensuring data integrity. Furthermore, the user implemented a series of SQL migrations to convert tables to utf8mb4 character sets, improving support for diverse languages. They also worked on integrating new features, such as favoriting, into the GraphQL API and refactored the media and album-related queries to use GORM.
selfhostedgoogle-photosphoto-galleryexifnas
stz184/form-validator
Oct 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 5 years 8 months
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