Over 12 years in company management. Over 8 years in team management. Over 23 years of experience in IT. Over 6 years in business online/off-line systems and solutions. Many sales awards from multiple companies for best sales achievements for 2009-2018 in Australia and New Zealand! Multiple "million dollars growth" award!
I am hard working and highly motivated. I like to set goals and create a plan to achieve them. I have done this multiple times in many companies with great success, leaving me with a great track record.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. No dream is too big for me. No challenge is too great for my team. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. All is a matter of planning, entrepreneurship and hard work. If somebody says it can't be done, I will show them, how it can be done. I like to lead by example.
Many years ago, as a student in my high school for gifted and talented, I worked with a team of inventors from the university and we invented some great technologies, used today in the high-speed fibre-glass communication. That earned me three gold medals in the field of innovation. In the next ten years that followed, I had the opportunity to complete my degree in robotics and automation. Meanwhile, I added 3 years in military expertise in encryption and cyber / network security to my career record.
After that, I gained over 10 years experience with building B2B systems in many programming languages, including but not limited to C, C++, Object C, C#, .NET, Scala, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Javascript and more. We used databases based on Oracle, MySQL and lately MariaDB. Creating a number of highly secure proprietary libraries helped me to create over 500 e-commerce web solutions, and some unique site to site communication, data logging and payment systems. That earned me a development partnership in projects with companies like MYOB and Sony PlayStation. Managing a team of 17 programmers, I have delivered applications in CRM, Payment Processing, EFTPOS, Remotely Operated Temporary and Stationary Traffic Management (ROTTM/ROSTM) signs and display graphics, Military and GPS tracking applications, HMI and PLC systems, logistics automation systems, automatic transportation systems and hundreds more.
From 1999 to 2012, I used my entrepreneurial skills and build two of the top 5 biggest IT companies in two countries (Bulgaria and New Zealand). In both cases, after receiving offers to sell the business to a bigger player I have sold those companies.
Since 2013, I have been the Chief Software Architect in Velev PTY LTD and Osiris LLC; working on contracts for large customers to design and oversee the development of B2B systems. HMI or Human Machine Interface and HSI or Human System Interface are very important part of my job. I believe that all systems, in need to interact with us, should have some intuitive, AI-driven, simple and elegant options to communicate.
I can give you hundreds of examples for projects and success stories. Instead, just present me with a challenge and I will find and design a specific solution for you. Implementing that solution will deliver great cost savings and increased performance.
I am always at the front, dealing with the customer, drawing plans with them, completing the deal or closing the sale. This has given me great sales experience and sales knowledge. In the past 4 years, I have used those skills very well by teaching and coaching my sales team.
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Velev PTY LTD & KIRBY-IT AU / NZBuilding various systems and solutions for high profile customers. Developing new IT B2B Systems helping our and other businesses to grow. Using systems to identify and deliver budget savings and profit increase over 120%.
(5 years)
SecureSpace NZBuilding one of the biggest IT Companies in NZ, SecureSpace. Managing over 1000+ customers, data centre and number of web based, B2B systems. Working with MYOB on live, multi server solutions. Managing a team of 17 programmers. The company was sold later to a larger organisation.
(1 year)
Central Station NZWorking with large customers like Sony PlayStation on B2B systems and system software
Part Time
Wenatex NZ / AustraliaI was awarded multiple Best Sales & Performance Awards
(3 Years)
Cervin Publishing New ZealandBuild large, searchable web database and B2B system for internal print integration for medical specialists listed in the healthpages directory.
(5 Years)
MagicSoft / Vilmat BulgariaDesigning Network Infrastructure and Software. I built a small company from scratch to one of the biggest IT and Software suppliers at that time. Providing custom software and hardware systems for logistic companies. The company was sold and merged later with Vilmat.
B.Sc. Engineering Degree in Robotics
CNC Machines & HMI software
Mathematics, Science, Physics for gifted and talented
Earned 3 Gold Medals in the field of Science
Cyber Security
Communications
in the top 2%
of the people with the highest IQ
English:
Advanced
Bulgarian:
Advanced
Serbian:
Basic
Russian:
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Italian:
Very Basic
Parallel Imported first used Dimitar around 2010, he initially helped us develop our first website, our payment systems and our service system. HE have guided us through the implementation of far more complicated features in the months since. Dimitar is one of the best software architects / programmers I have worked with and with the help of his team, he provided a high level of service at a very competitive price. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending him to any other company as the quality of their work and subsequent support is very high!
We are more than extremely happy with the quality of service and expertise that we have received from both Dimitar and his team during this exciting time of building our systems. We have found Dimitar to be very creative, open minded and highly skilled. He was very generous with his time and worked with us to get everything working just the way we had imagined. He took our ideas and were able to elaborate on them, to make them functional, fast and secure. Dimitar and his team have a lot of knowledge to share, from the design stage to completion of a functional and fast, secure and functional working system. We fully recommend him.
Our ideas were transformed into a spectacular software in the given timeframe. Dimitar and his Employees are helpful no matter what changes are needed and we felt part of the development. A trustworthy and competent person to deal with.
We were referred to Dimitar and his team by a work colleague and it was the best choice we made in the setting up of our new business. They not only designed an excellent systems for us, but they went beyond the call of duty by assisting us in every aspect. We are frequently complemented by customers for our apps, systems and website. They have always been available to answer questions and have responded to any call for help immediately. Their follow-up support has been incredible. We would highly recommend them, and we would be happy to talk to anyone who would like to contact us about this excellent and professional software architect and design company.
Just about a year ago, I did quick research with a friend of mine on the future of programmers worldwide. The question for the research - will the good programmes go by the way of the Dodo bird? After a few hours of calculations and debating the final result is in, and is YES, in the next 5 to 10 years we are going to lose 80% of the best programmers we ever had. Replacing them won't be an option that any individual company can afford!
Just a thought - if you are 35 or older and you have been a programmer most of your life most likely you are brought to existence in the programming world with a set of pre-installed quality guidelines that were an important part of our everyday battle with bugs and errors. This was the result of fewer programming jobs and the fact that only the best programmers where successful. Therefore, programmers were often able to fight off bugs simply by imagining some situations and predicting what could go wrong as well as testing in real life systems. In the past ten years, slowly but surely, a new type of programmers started to move in. With the push from India and China for faster and cheaper deployment, the quality started to fade away and give way to the new way - just do it, a button is a button, nobody is going to see the error if it does not work.
Fact 1 - This fact was just a prediction two years ago. Now is a fact!. The website of one of our banks, mainly the online payment tool, now only works with one and one browser only - Safari, and this is a browser that is not in use very often! The reason is that the code is so complicated and sloppy that the page simply crashes on the rest of the browsers.
Fact 2 - The internet of things is growing exponentially, thus requiring exponentially more programmers to join the workforce. Aditionally, unless a specific educational system is in use, it takes 2 years to create a good disciplined programmer. It is also expensive and can blow out the bottom line in most companies. It means that humanity is simply running out of quality minds that can do the job! The companies, therefore, are forced to hire almost everybody that can type and can use a mouse.
A prediction, that became a fact - Just about a year ago, I was saying to my friends and family over dinner, that if it is going to continue that way, we are going to see plains falling off the skies and cars driving themselves into ditches. Sadly, very sadly, both of those are facts now!
At the same dinner, my friends asked me - So Dimitar, what is the solution?
The solution is not what most people think it is, it involves some restructuring and a bit of AI, which I am working on. If you are interested, please contact me, maybe we can work on that together.
You may have heard that AI has enormous potential in the cybersecurity world, but why is that?
Right now, all of the security measures that a company can put in place to protect their IP, data and customers is in a form of software firewalls and scripts that run in 'magic' black boxes that are beyond the grasp of how it works for the average person.
I have been configuring and monitoring those boxes for over 10 years now and often I can watch hackers trying to penetrate, penetrating one layer of security and then getting caught and blocked.
Unless you are like me, deeply entrenched in scripts, UNIX kernel rules, and stacks of 35' monitors everywhere, you may never see that happen. The news of that often never reaches you, and here's why it should.
For an average person's home router, phone and smart gadgets, it happens 10'000+ a day, 365 days a year non stop! While an average company's router gets more like 100'000 hacker entries per day. Those boxes (firewalls and routers) are running rule scripts to identify a hack and block the hack.
The problem with those scripts is that they are well known and predictable. I can talk about rules and scripts and fill in the next 20 pages, instead, let's make it simple.
It's like Boxer A seeing the opportunity to punch from the right and Boxer B knowing that A will punch from the right and getting ready to block it.
Imagine, that A knows that B will see the right punch and will try to block it. Then, A fakes the right punch and instead delivers a left one. If unprepared, Boxer B, literally, will not see where it came from before it gets dark.
Can you see where the problem is? Well, is not just one problem. If your network is hacked, your router/firewall will most likely have successfully tried to protect you 10'000+ times and could have sent you 10'000+ emails to warn you about something happening. However, do you have the time to read 10'000 emails from your router? And most importantly, once you are hacked, and your router is now owned by the hackers, how are you going to find out about it?
That's where AI can help enormously. Stay tuned as I am running some interesting research on AI security and firewalls right now.
