Teodor Iliev Email & Phone Number

Leading the Core Banking and Cards department, ~100 engineers and ~15 teams working towards building the best mSME-focused BaaS

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• Leading our Backend Engineering department into building the Services and APIs that power the Tide Platform
• Responsible for the acquisition, retention & growth of the Backend Engineering team - from approximately 80 to >160 over the course of 2 years
• Responsible for improving our technical excellence & maintaining our high standards during the times of hypergrowth across all of our 3 Tech Centres (London/Sofia/Hyderabad) and now through our 4th virtual remote one

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• Led the development within Tide's Credit area into launching our first proprietary credit products
• Stepping in as the most senior technical person in the new Sofia Tech Centre, played a key part in scaling the local team and operations

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• An Israel-based SME providing corporate and personal safety/security apps for various Israeli companies and communities
• Led a 100% remote distributed team
• As part of a hands-on role, filled in different gaps in the development process ranging from the more comfortable BE development through FE development to some rudimentary mobile development
• Initiated a modernization of the outdated technology behind the core product including containerization, automation, version migrations, etc. to fend off substantial technical debt and alleviate the costs of the.
• Provided technical insight for the leadership team, navigated the tech communication with the clients, coordinated security audits and integrations with 3rd partiesProacts Ambulance Service - A healthcare product.
• Designed the architecture for the product, opting for a 100% isomorphic TypeScript stack to fully leverage the available development resources - Angular 2 for the web, Ionic3-based mobile applications and a.

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• Provided operational support, know-how sharing and technical insight for companies further developing/selling services previously developed in Connectik
• Provided trainings for junior teams into the basics of Spring Boot and web development
• Consulted teams on architecture for scale leveraging OSS stack
• Provided trainings on one of my favourite topics - distributed systems

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• UK-based startup with development offices in Sofia, Atlanta and Tel Aviv, focused on building and selling collaboration tools for businesses and large organizations with an increased accent on high performance.
• Leveraged my accumulated experience with various open source technologies to design the architecture for the core product
• Hired, mentored and coached the junior members of the team
• Coordinated the communication between the different functional teams (Web, Mobile, DevOps), provided technical insight for the leadership team, worked with the product team to gather and refine requirements, owned the.
• Designed a microservices architecture entirely built on open source to simultaneously support the HA/Scalability demands while ensuring different members of the team were adequately engaged and had a sense of ownership
• Designed with the more senior members an in-house reactive Vert.X-based E2E encrypted chat solution allowing the leadership team to further develop the product into a cost-effective real-time secure messaging.

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• Worked on MyUniverse - a collaboration platform for large organizations (NPOs, religious, humanitarian) with an emphasis on security, scalability and high availability
• Designed and developed a proprietary ORM based on open-source NoSQL DBs (Apache Solr, HBase) to meet the ambitious scalability requirements of the product
• Designed and developed an in-house HA E2E encrypted file storage solution (true E2E based on Shamir's Secret Sharing Schema)
• Designed and developed the foundation for the core social networking service

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

• Switzerland-based multinational startup within a privately held incubator focused on delivering ambitious products based on technologies expected to be hot in the next few years and yet-to-be-commercialized academia.
• Started off as a Junior developing REST APIs, peripheral services and toolkits and over time began working on core components across multiple projects boasting a diverse portfolio of technologiesWorked on the Brandtix.
• Developed a data extraction pipeline to gather and pre-process large quantities of near-real-time data from news websites (constantly crawled by Apache Nutch), forums/online boards and social media sites Twitter.
• Integrated Apache Solr to index the collected data
• Developed lightweight Spring-based RESTful services to calculate and aggregate metrics, and serve as a proxy between the Web UI and Solr for the full-text searching capabilities of the product

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

High School, Mathematics