Software and platform engineer with experience across a range of fields, including data and system engineering, web and backend development and machine learning engineering. With over a decade in the industry, I have gained valuable insights into software and system engineering that I apply to my day-to-day work. I have worked in various industries such as telecommunications, networking, cybersecurity, contributing to projects ranging from DDoS mitigation solutions, NDR solutions, to LLM gateway implementations. Now focusing on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with focus on infrastructure and deployment. I'm a fan of functional programming and declarative infrastructure.

Professional Experiences

Blindspot Solutions

Software and Platform Engineer

from 2022 to present

In Blindspot, I have the opportunity to work on various interesting projects. Here is a list of some of them:

  • Software and platform engineer in a team working for a US cybersecurity startup. Maintaining and creating data pipelines in Scala or Python. Defining and maintaining infrastructure based on NixOS.
  • Software and cloud engineer for our in-house-developed LLM gateway solution. Working mainly with Python for programming and Azure for infrastructure.
  • Data and platform engineer in a team developing and productionizing prediction models for a large telco company. Applying MLOps principles to the ML engineering lifecycle.
  • Software engineer for a high-usage data platform for a large car manufacturer. The project is written in Scala and is heavily based on the ZIO framework.

ComSource

Software Engineer

from 2019 to 2022

Server-side developer & Platform engineer for the multiple networking projects such as L4 DDoS protection & data retention. Worked as Scala/Spark developer, managing Spark ETL pipelines, Python micro-services, CI/CD pipelines and was also part of the team migrating docker apps to K8S.

Deutsche Telekom

Software Engineer

from 2018 to 2019

Part of the international Billing Mediation Device Platform team. Developed and maintained billing use cases for various departments. Programming and testing of new features.

Algotech

System & Software Engineer

from 2014 to 2018

During my stay at Algotech I had opportunity to work with various telco systems from platform and software engineering perspective. I was part of the Level 1 & 2. support of technical team maintaining multiple Avaya PBS and NICE recording systems. Later I switched to software engineering role, working primarily on developing in house call center and voice recording systems developod unpon .NET platform (C#)

Skills

Programming Languages & frameworks

Languages and frameworks I've used for building various applications

Python

Extensive experience with data engineering, machine learning and web development frameworks

Scala

Used for various data engineering projects, experience with frameworks like Spark, Akka, ZIO

Go

Mainly used form smaller projects

Apache Spark

Used for various data engineering tasks, from pipeline orchestration to data exploration

System & Cloud

Tools and platforms for deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure

Linux

Server administration and bash scripting

Azure

Cloud services including App Service, Cosmos DB, and more

Docker

Primarily used for orchestrating local development environments

Terraform

Infrastructure automation and configuration management

NixOs

Infrastructure automation and configuration management

Pulumi

Infrastructure automation and configuration management

Kubernetes

Pod development and deployment experience

AWS

Cloud services including EC2, S3, Lambda, and more

Tools & Methodologies

Development practices and tools I follow

DevOps

Experience with development practices and various tools

Git

Version control and collaboration

IaC

Infrastructure automation and configuration management, including Terraform, NixOS, Pulumi, Ansible, and more

CI/CD

Experience with various platforms including Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and more

MlOps

Experience with Development practices and various tools

Education

SSLVT Odolena Voda

Mechanical engineering and mechanical production

from 2006 to 2010

Certificates

MS: Azure Cosmos DB developer

MS Learn

Machine Learning & AI

RobotDreams

Google Cloud: Core Infrastructure

Coursera

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): GettingStarted

Coursera

Machine Learning in production

Coursera

Advanced Scala

Udemy

Scala AKKA essentials

Udemy

Scala Spark streaming

Udemy

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