Speakers

Stefan Kiryazov

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Stefan, like most geeks, rejected the faith of his parents early in his childhood. Later in life, however, he missed the community support and sense of purpose that religious people enjoy – until he found Pastafarianism.

He converted to his new faith in 2009 and has spearheaded the Bulgarian branch of the church ever since. In 2016 Stefan and his now wife became the first couple in Bulgaria (and only 2nd in the world) to have a Pastafarian wedding ceremony, a rite they now recommend for everyone who finds the traditional church wedding boring and misogynistic.

Vasil Velikov

PROS

Vasil Velikov has 10 years of professional software development experience. Having degrees in Computer science and Numerical mathematics, his passion lies in fields that combine mathematics, algorithms and software engineering – high performance scientific computing, numerical simulations, computer graphics. He has been a technical lead at PROS for a little more than one year.

Brent Franklin

PROS

I have 18 years of experience in developing software and leading people and projects.  Originally from Texas, I currently lead some of the amazing development teams at PROS in Sofia, Bulgaria, focused on building cloud-based solutions for the airline industry.  I’m passionate about development best practices and clean, beautiful code.  I enjoy working with customers to understand their business challenges and then bringing a technical solution to life.  I am currently obsessed with trying to find good Tex-Mex food in Europe to cope with my withdrawals.

Trayan Iliev

IPT – Intellectual Products & Technologies
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Trayan Iliev (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trayaniliev/) is developer of end-to-end reactive full-stack applications and services using ES, TypeScript, Angular, React and Vue.js clients, and Spring 5, Reactor, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Express and Java EE back-ends. He has 15+ years of software development experience and 12+ years experience as enterprise IT trainer. Trayan is CTO of IPT – Intellectual Products & Technologies – training and consultancy company, focused on novelties in front-end and REST/gRPC/GraphQL backend development – reactive UI, end-to-end reactive programming, distributed event stream processing, real-time micro-service architectures, etc. Trayan has presentations on local developer conferences such as Voxxed Days, jPrime, jProfessionals, BGOUG, on topics like Spring 5, Reactor, SOA & REST, CDI, Java EE, React, Angular, Ionic, Node.js, RxJS, reactive java robotics, high-performance java. He is robotics / smart-things/ IoT enthusiast and organizes RoboLearn hackathons in Sofia.

Jonathan Johnson

Jonathan Johnson has been engineering commercial software for some twenty years. Software has the amazing potential to improve and even save lives. Sadly, lousy software can miss this potential. His journey is driven by delivering helpful software to move us forward.

His early work began with laboratory instrument software and managing its data. Jonathan was enticed by the advent of object-oriented design and Windows to develop personal banking software. Banking soon turned to the internet and enterprise applications took off. Java exploded onto the scene and since then he has inhabited that ecosystem. At 454 Life Sciences and Roche Diagnostics Jonathan returned to laboratory software and leveraged Java-based state machines and enterprise services to manage the terabytes of data flowing out of DNA sequencing instruments.

His journey continues with Thermo Fisher Scientific as a hands-on architect continuously delivering a laboratory management platform based on Kubernetes with microservices.

Georgi Petrov

PROS

Georgi Petrov is a software engineer at PROS with more than 20 years of programming experience. He has a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Sofia University and at the roots of his day-to-day job lies his involvement with programming competitions in the distant previous century.

Dobromir Georgiev

PROS

Dobromir Georgiev is a tech lead at PROS, developing software for airfare pricing and shopping. Having worked in both industry and academia, he has been creating software for over 8 years. His main interests are algorithm design, software architecture, and high-performance computing.

Dafo Nachkov

PROS

Dafo is Director Product Development at PROS. With over 20 years in the software engineering field, 7 of which in the travel industry, Dafo manages the processes of designing, building, delivering, and maintaining versatile software solution to complex business problems, with long-term strategy in mind. He is interested in service-oriented architectures, big data processing, application scalability and efficiency.

Venelin Nikolov

QWERTY

Venelin Nikolov is a lecturer in Informatics and Information Technology at Vasil Levski Primary School in Razgrad. His professional career as an ICT teacher began at Nikola Economov Primary School in the city, where in 2009 she created the first virtual classroom in Bulgaria with 32 physical devices for teacher’s and students’ work. This innovation brings him the Teacher of the Year award and a meeting with the President of the Republic of Bulgaria on the occasion of May 24th.

Our robotics club is a town team. It is five years old, with kids from the first to twelfth grade. A student from the sixth grade invented the name of the team while watching the keyboard of the computer. These are the first letters of the left upper part of the keyboard. We gather together twice a week and work in groups. We do LEGO-robotics. We first construct robots and after that we program them for specific tasks and missions to help people. During the meetings we work and have fun. We often play team games or compete with the robots that we constructed. Once a month we organize sumo fights. On celebrations we take part with our robots. We like to show the constructed by us mechanisms and the programmes to students from our and other schools. It happens when our school celebrates.

Tanya Kozalieva

Kinder Coder

Co-founder in Kinder Coder. Kinder Coder is a small programming club for kids, created and developed with great passion by a young couple. They explore and develop creative ways to ensure conditions for children to make their first steps in the world of coding in an easy and funny way. Through local workshops, courses and trainings in robotics Kinder Coder is provoking kids interest and passion for digital skills. The club is located in a small town and its founders are focused on developing their activity in small cities where programming for kids is not popular and often even impossible.

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