Ivaylo – Node.js, React, AWS

Beamery is the end-to-end solution that lets businesses manage the complete talent relationship. It's a suite of different services related to talent acquisition and recruitment.

The main features he was working on were:

• integrations with external partners, specifically which is another talent acquisition software Greenhouse.io;
• documentation of merging algorithms and tools;
• compound search feature.

As a Lead Developer for integrations, Ivaylo handled one of the largest services that Beamery integrated with, using massive-scale methods like NiFi and Kafka. He also coped with the following tasks:

• created and maintained an event-driven architecture in the Google Cloud Platform;
• used ElasticSearch and MongoDB to create a "complex search" functionality that could use compound words like "AND", "OR", "AND NOT" etc.;
• debugged legacy platform issues that no one else could figure out;
• wrote unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.

Timber's goal was to make financial advice available to more people. Using a survey, Timber made it very easy for a new customer to understand the key concept and to book an appointment with a financial advisor.

The main features Ivaylo was working on were:

• back-end API of the system;
• integrations with other services;
• continuous deployment.

Ivaylo handled the following responsibilities:

• completed design of the infrastructure and architecture;
• managed security, authentication, and authorization;
• built a deployment pipeline;
• set up monitoring and analytics;
• ran integration with the booking service.

Ivaylo worked on a project called Nift, invested and supported by Prehype. The project aimed to turn complicated contracts into "human-readable text". It turned contracts into something closer to a very simple-to-read online e-book with illustrations and quizzes to test your understanding.

The main features he was working on were:

• core Back-end API;
• complete infrastructure;
• natural Language Processing engine.

Ivaylo managed the following:

• made back-end architecture;
• created reusable authorization mechanisms;
• developed an automated self-hosted approach where every new signup (client) will be deployed to a completely isolated hosting / complete with a database, DNS configuration for a subdomain, and a separate API;
• used Google Cloud Platform to automate the deployment;
• developed the back-end API.

Times Higher Education is the world leader and a renowned, credible source for its World Universities Ranking publications. The DataPoints product that THE offers allows universities to access additional data behind the world ranking. It is also a Business Analysis tool that can combine various data into dynamically created graphs.

Ivaylo handled the following:

• managed solution designing of major concepts that affect the whole technological ecosystem;
• created the Front-end and Back-end architecture;
• assisted with the design of the deployment and production infrastructure;
• separated domains into shared and common services
• maintained and discovered data migration processes (AWS Glue, Jenkins etc.);
• broke down work from a Sales or Product team perspective into actionable tasks for the dev team;
• implemented monitoring and analytical tools (New Relic, Google Analytics etc.);
• debugged and resolved issues throughout the whole tech stack and infrastructure;
• maintained the core DataPoints product;
• migrated the Drupal-based platform into a React-NodeJS one;
• created a product called Impact Ranking, which is the world's first interactive platform for visualizing the Sustainable Demographic Goals' data from 1300+ institutions.