Speakers

Dr. Pavlin Dobrev

Bosch.IO
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Dr. Pavlin Dobrev is a Director at Bosch.IO. The company owned by Bosch is focused on developing AI-powered Internet of Things (IoT) solutions focused on connected IoT ecosystem and tear down silos to create a truly connected world. He is charge for the Quality Management of the Bosch IoT Suite, the entire support of ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 at Bosch.IO, as well as various research and customer projects.

Dr. Dobrev has more than two decades of experience with IoT, AI, Cloud and Java technologies, as well as in OSGi and embedded systems. He is an active participant in the OSGi Alliance, Java Community Process and other technical standards groups. He is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and participates in the development of the Eclipse IDE as a committer in the Equinox project.

Pavlin Dobrev has a PhD in Computer Systems in the area of Knowledge Management from the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and holds an MsC in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University. He has written many scientific and technical publications and participated as speaker in prestigious international conferences.

Opening

Day 1 - March 8th 11:00-11:30 Main Hall #Influencers Opening Keynote Dr. Pavlin Dobrev, Iva Abadjieva, Yasen Yankov

Maria Hristova

Sofia Municipal Agency for Privatization and Investment

Maria Hristova, PhD has a Master’s degree in Business and Human Resources Development & Administration. She specialized in Paris X Nanterre, integrating people with physical and mental disabilities. She is developing a scientific paper on the topic of Development of the dual career model in Bulgaria.

Maria has held the position of Commercial Director in a digital marketing agency for almost 14 years. She has been a lecturer in statistics for more than 4 years, and currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Sofia Municipal Agency for Privatization and Investment, part of the general administration of Sofia Municipality.

Result-oriented specialist in the field of digital strategies, innovations in the educational system and the dialogue between business, education and administration.

Iskren Chernev

Iskren maintains backend infrastructure for millions of users for a messaging company, writing asynchronous code before it was cool. He’s also a maintainer of moment.js.

Tony Roberts

Tony has been in the finance industry for over 15 years. He worked as a developer for boutique hedge funds through to some of the largest financial firms before taking on the role of CTO at a successful fintech startup. In 2010 he launched PyXLL, an Excel Add-In with tens of thousands of users in a wide variety of industries, and more recently released the Java Excel Add-In “Jinx”. In a previous life he developed graphics engines for console games.

Working with Microsoft Excel in Java

Day 1 - March 8th 12:30-13:20 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Novice

Nikos Papageorgiou

Nikos Papageorgiou is a Consultant, focusing on giving feedback on, improving, and scaling up existing systems.
He has worked on a number of startups, and this experience prompted him to address the 2 recurring themes: On one hand, Management’s insecurity about the system they have, and on the other an infrastructure that was built in great hurry and usually from inexperienced people.
Nikos is focusing on topics such as simplicity, readability, modularity, and what generally falls under the umbrella terms Clean Code and Clean Architecture. He has 2 degrees in Business and one in Software Engineering.

Code as prose: Lessons from our colleagues

12:00-12:50 Novice

Irina Kamalova

Alveo Technology

Irina Kamalova is a Senior Software Engineer at Alveo Technology. Working with Java and Scala, she developed and deployed a lot of projects to production.

Discussion :: Women in Software Development Industry – Challenges, Career, Leadership

Day 2 - March 9th 15:00-15:50 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Discussion Irina Kamalova, Rayna Stankova, Chiamaka Okenwa, Iva Abadjieva

Triangle of Cassanda & Solr & Kafka

Day 2 - March 9th 14:00-14:50 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Novice

Sofia Lyateva

Devexperts

Aside from being the Corporate Communications & Employer Brand Expert for Devexperts in Europe, Sofia is also a Women Techmakers Lead for Bulgaria & Google Developers Group Sofia organizer. She has been developing IT communities and helping IT brands thrive for 4 years now. Her previous experience includes PR expertise and leading socially responsible local & international NGOs.

Sofia has also been recognized various times among the Bulgarian IT ecosystem and also received the 2018 Global Tech Summit Award for Dev Community Contributor organized by DevStyleR.

Rayna Stankova

Women Who Code Sofia

Rayna Stankova, software engineer at VMware Bulgaria with more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry, has been managing Women Who Code Sofia since 2017. She started her career as a quality engineer thanks to critical thinking and passion for problem solving. The development of products with high quality and satisfying the requirements of the clients has become of high priority in her working day. For Rayna, it is important to share knowledge, so she actively participates in conferences and events, giving lectures and workshops.

She strongly believes that women have a lot to give to the IT industry, so she launched Women Who Code Sofia. The organization started as a small community of enthusiasts, and now they are the largest and most famous women’s organization in Sofia.

Where Rayna spends her free time: Volunteering. Photography. Travel. Healthy food. Squash.

Discussion :: Women in Software Development Industry – Challenges, Career, Leadership

Day 2 - March 9th 15:00-15:50 Hall 3.1 #J2D Advanced Discussion Rayna Stankova, Irina Kamalova, Chiamaka Okenwa, Iva Abadjieva

Mihail Stoynov

BG JUG

The Bulgarian Java User group was founded in September 2007 along with a mailing list for discussion of any Java-related questions, problems and upcoming technologies. After a short period of dormancy, five members set leadership board in 2013. It triggered regular meetups and sessions once or twice a month with local and foreign speakers. The JUG first took part in several Adopt OpenJDK activities and soon after that became JCP member. The events and workshops organized by the community are sponsored and backed up by IT companies on the Bulgarian market

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