Blagovest V.

Blagovest V.

Senior Python Developer/Data Scientist

Sofia, Bulgaria
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About Me

Blagovest is a Senior Python Developer creating, packaging and releasing Python applications and solutions - writing tools to automate tasks and integrate backend components, web services and user-facing elements. He delivers solutions on highly responsive web applications and builds microservices - proposing designs, gathering feedback and releasing and documenting solutions for stakeholders.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Python Developer/Data Scientist
2022 - Present (2 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions from clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Infinite Lambda
Infinite Lambda
Machine Learning Engineer
2021 - 2022 (1 year)
Remote
  • Designed and built end-to-end machine learning model pipelines, complex software programs, and tools for clients.

  • Defined, established and worked with the best MLOps best practices to enhance automation, monitoring, and scale.

  • Provided on-going support for machine learning solutions - identifying and fixing defects on solutions.

ZotaPay
ZotaPay
Data Scientist
2019 - 2021 (2 years)
Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Developed and deployed microservices to handle data and reporting tasks - ensuring data consistency on the platform.

  • Designed and implemented the flow of information across multiple 3rd-party tools used by different teams within ZotaPay.

  • Provided subject-matter expertise for financial data reporting and modelling using modern data science techniques.

Mereo Technologies Group
Mereo Technologies Group
Data Scientist
2018 - 2021 (3 years)
Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Designed, developed and implemented Mereo's algorithmic trading and backtesting platform.

  • Worked on different backtesting trading strategies utilizing technical and fundamental analysis indicators and ML models.

  • Developed and deployed processes to handle portfolio risk modelling, data ingestion and processing on Mereo platform.

Tradeo Social Trading
Tradeo Social Trading
Data Scientist
2016 - 2018 (2 years)
Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Designed and developed the recommender system to enhance social interaction on the Tradeo platform.

  • Built and released high-level reports on company financials for high-level management within the company.

  • Developed and implemented new tools to optimize marketing solutions and delivered reports on Tradeo's exposure and risk.

Yatrus Analytics
Yatrus Analytics
Data Scientist
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Deployed new solutions to process Twitter's Firehose stream - enhancing the event discovery functionalities.

  • Implemented NLP solutions to improve Named-Entity Recognition and mapped out the interaction of entities on the platform.

  • Designed and built solutions to enhance the ontology of current news and facts on Twitter.

AdCash Advertising Network
AdCash Advertising Network
Data Scientist
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Implemented text-based classification solutions to enhance website categorization on the AdCash platform.

  • Built and deployed AdCash's ad-serving engine to optimize revenue and improve advertiser-publisher matching.

  • Deployed modern ML approaches to enhance solutions on the project using Recommender Engines, Regression Methods, aNN, and Decision Trees.

Strypes
Strypes
Python Developer
2013 - 2014 (1 year)
Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Buil and implemented a core suite of web applications leveraging modern Python frameworks and tools.

  • Reviewed existing Python codebases to migrate them to newer Python versions - providing recommendations for improvements.

  • Identified, debugged and resolved complex defects, bugs and issues on solutions.

Portfolio

Python Developer - Prenatal Anomaly Detection
Python Developer - Prenatal Anomaly Detection

Worked on a charity project for a local prenatal clinic - providing a tool to help the clinic make better care decisions based on statistics. Designed and implemented a recommender system that ingests patient data, matches it against historical data and produces recommendations on possible complications. The new solution provided better guidance thresholds for the clinic to improve its operations.

Senior Python Developer - Proprietary Algo-trading Engine
Senior Python Developer - Proprietary Algo-trading Engine

Worked with a team of skilled Mathematics PhD candidates to devise new methods for pricing stocks and derivatives - utilizing a broad tech stack for the solution. The solution enhanced the management of client investments and funds with improved ROI.

Senior Python Developer - Data Platform Modernisation
Senior Python Developer - Data Platform Modernisation

Designed and deployed a new data platform to modernize the client's data platform that handles large volumes of data and utilizes several enterprise-grade data platform solutions. Enhanced the security protocols on the new platform to better serve the client's distributed team around the globe.

Education

B.Eng (Hons). Artificial Intelligence with Management
B.Eng (Hons). Artificial Intelligence with Management
The University of Edinburgh
2009 - 2013 (4 years)