Front-End Engineer / Sofia, Bulgaria
—front-end engineer
I build products and sites that actually ship — online stores, services, my own apps, and one book. Daily driver: TypeScript, React, and an unreasonable amount of attention to detail.
01 / who is this
Born and raised in Burgas, now in Sofia. I started with C++ in high school, went through olympiads and hackathons, and landed in front-end because that is where the distance between an idea and something a person can actually touch is shortest.
My days run in two directions: front-end work at Sportal365, and my own products and client sites on the side — stores, product sites and services that have to bring in real orders, not just look good.
I earned my first money at 14 as a goldsmith’s apprentice, and at 16 I was a waiter and barman. That is where I learned that small details show — and I still carry them into the code.
Outside the editor: I wrote a book, and I spent nine years on the wrestling mat. Wrestling taught me more about debugging than any course ever did: if you step out already thinking the other guy is better, he has beaten you.
education
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Computer Science · Sofia
Vocational School for Computer Programming and Innovations
Computer Science · Burgas
02 / where I have been
May 2025 — present
presentSportal365·Sofia · full-time
Front-end work across the company's products, alongside a distributed team.
2023 — present
presentOwn and client projects·Bulgaria
Stores, product sites and services — from the first mockup to the first order.
Jan 2024 — Apr 2025
ORBIS Digital Services·Burgas · hybrid
Dynamic web applications, from the schema up to the interface.
internship · Jun 2023
AIBEST·Burgas · hybrid
An online CV builder, from the form down to the database.
internship · Feb — Apr 2023
Strypes·remote
A pipeline from raw web pages to interactive statistics.
internship · Nov 2022 — Apr 2023
TechnoLogica·Burgas
Six months of C# on a real team, with a mentor.
internship · Sep 2022 — Feb 2023
Cyber 360·remote
Offensive security — reconnaissance, scanning and write-ups.
internship · Feb — Jul 2022
Scalefocus·Bulgaria
My first internship — C++ on a team that ships real code.
03 / what I work with
Daily drivers, not a list of things I have heard of.
languages3
frontend7
backend & tooling8
04 / what I have built
Products and sites that are live right now — my own and clients’.
01 / Author and developer
Own product · 2025 — present
A book and the entire product around it: a store with its own cart and checkout, Econt delivery, reviews, merchandise, an admin panel and a Storytel audio edition. Full stack, from the database schema to the last animation.
03 / Full-stack
Client project
An online store for eco yoga mats and accessories made from cork and polyurethane. Category and set browsing, product pages, cart and checkout, plus a blog about the practice.
04 / Web developer
Client project
A store for handwoven jewellery — catalogue, customer accounts, cart and checkout on WordPress and WooCommerce, with an Instagram gallery and room for the photography that carries the brand.
05 / Full-stack
Client project
A site for a junk and old-furniture removal service in Sofia. Five container sizes, coverage across the city and the region, ordering in three steps, and heavy local SEO — the site is the first point of contact for customers.
06 / Full-stack
Client project
A product site for a 2D countryball animation course — presenting the programme and taking sign-ups.
07 / Front-end
HackAUBG · 2024
A platform that tracks manufacturers and their sustainability, scores them, and suggests concrete ways to improve.
05 / off the keyboard
От дете, Мъж
The uncomfortable truth about growing up.
I wrote the book I needed when I was younger. I am not a writer and I am not promising a happy ending — I am promising the truth.
It came out on 24 February, my birthday. No publisher: a professional editor, my own site, and parcels I pack and send myself.
The title comes from a board in my room where I tracked competitions, weight, training and money. Watching myself change through them, it became clear that this was the road from a boy to a man.
The cover shows a hand with the ring finger raised. From a distance the gesture looks like something else, and that is deliberate — in Bulgarian that finger is called “the nameless one”, as if the person had no name. Nobody should feel like that.
“If you do not master the rhythm of your days, it will start to master you.”
06 / side product
Praisi is a mobile app for shopping smarter — it scans barcodes, compares prices, and shows the net price hidden behind the markups.
The YouTube channel is where we show what the app can actually do.
Praisi at full potential
Praisi — Shop efficiently
07 / trophy shelf
Nine distinctions from national and international competitions — plus the mat.
AmCham Bulgaria · first place
Bulgaria · third place
Blagoevgrad · first place
Global · first place
VSCPI · first place
“John Atanasoff” · second place
CISCO · third place
University “Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov” · first place
Bulgaria · fifth place
Classical wrestling. It taught me that the gap between failure and a result is usually one more repetition.
08 / wins
The mat and the halls — tournaments, olympiads and hackathons.
09 / let's talk
I am open to interesting products, good teams and hard front-end problems.
