Speakers

Nikolay Milovanov

New Bulgarian University

Nikolay is a network freak and lazy software nerd ☺ With time he came from networking and system engineering to software. How that has happened he does not really know. Topics like DevOps, SDN and cloud are a natural match for his interests. Nikolay has a PhD from NBU in “IPv4 to IPv6 network transformation” and a specialization in Architectures for Software systems from Carnegie Mellon. Currently Nikolay is full time assistant professor@ NBU and a cloud solution architect for SevOne. In his spare time Nikolay enjoys traveling and catching fish on a fly.

Martin Kuvandzhiev

Martin has participated in many exciting projects during the last few years. The first one was TAO-Wellnes – US based company awarded with Best in fitness for 2015 on the Consumer electronics show in Las Vegas. Then he has lead the development of projects Valkyrie (space glove) and Adept (wellness app and device). Valkyrie was selected for best project and Adept has been awarded as category winner on Nasa Space Apps Challende Competitions.
 
In 2016 he has been part of the successful Bulgarian startup Playground energy as a development lead. Currently he works as iOS Lead Developer in Phyre, promising Bulgarian startup. In the end of 2016 he won the “John Atanasoff” award and in the beginning of 2017 received BAIT award for multiple projects in IoT. He is also making a lot of conference sessions and lectures on topics from “How to be a team player” to “Advanced iOS Development”.
Besides his professional work, he is very into Cryptocurrencies. In his spare time he contributes to the upcoming fork of Bitcoin – Bitcoin Gold as chief product development advisor and Core developer and also is operator of several crypto mining machines. He has spent a lot of time in 3D design and 3D printing and also love to play guitar.

Boris Nikolov

GoStartups

Boris is a software-development enthusiast and a strong state-of-the-art technologies advocate. Starting to show interest in software development in the early high-school years, Boris has spent a lot of his time exploring the different types of software in order to master all their strengths and weaknesses and be able to make the crucially important decisions inevitable during every product development life cycle. This way he is able to ensure the future-proof architecture and scalability of all developed products under his leadership. Boris is currently the leading technologist in GoStartups and specializes in Android and Back-end development.

Patrick Curran

Oracle

Patrick Curran is Chair of the Java Community Process organization. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP’s Program Management Office including evolving the process and the organization, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, chairing Executive Committee meetings, and managing the JCP.org web site.

Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 25 years, and at Sun and then Oracle for 20 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and before joining the JCP he led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun’s Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun’s Conformance Council, which was responsible for defining Sun’s policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility.

Patrick has participated actively in several consortia and communities including the W3C (as a member of the Quality Assurance Working Group and co-chair of the Quality Assurance Interest Group), and OASIS (as co-chair of the Test Assertions Guidelines Technical Committee).

Dmitry Kornilov

Oracle

Dmitry Kornilov is a software engineer at Oracle in Prague (Czech Republic). He is a committer on the EclipseLink project. Dmitry has over over 20 years of experience in design and implementation of complex software systems, defining systems architecture, team leading and project management. Dmitry holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Aircraft Institute (Technical University).

David Delabasse

Oracle

David Delabassee is a software evangelist working for Oracle; his primary focus is Java on the server side, i.e. Java Platform, Enterprise Edition. Prior to Oracle, Delabassee spent a decade at Sun Microsystems focusing on Java end-to-end (from the smart card to the high-end server) and related technologies and developer tools. In his various roles, Delabassee has been involved in numerous Java projects since the early days of this technology. Delabassee lives in Belgium. In his spare time, he enjoys playing video games and LEGO with his daughter. He also enjoys tinkering with technologies such as Java, home automation, electronics, pinballs, etc.

Christoph Strobl

Pivotal Software

As part of the engineering team at Pivotal Software Inc., Christoph Strobl maintains and contributes mainly to the Spring Data modules around Redis, MongoDB, KeyValue and Solr. He is keen about all data access and has a passion about design and testing.

Geertjan Wielenga

Oracle

Geertjan Wielenga is a NetBeans product manager working at Oracle, focused on Java development and HTML5 development with NetBeans IDE and the NetBeans Platform. Geertjan is a Java technology enthusiast, primarily interested in Java desktop technologies, in particular, application development on the NetBeans Platform.

Dmitry Kober

Luxoft

Dmitry Kober is a team leader of one of the development teams of a massive highly-distributed BigData project at Luxoft.

He earned a mathematician and a system programmer degree at the Saint Petersburg State University in Russia, where as a postgraduate student he was teaching a discreet analysis and a system modelling courses. Dmitry started his career as a regular back-end Java developer at 2009 in a middle-sized outsoursing company which actively applied latest software development technics for a day-to-day work. This is where he first started forming an idea of combining the Agile and Waterfall worlds together. Since that, Dmitry changed several companies acting as an analyst, developer, architect and team leader, participating in out-tasking, outsourcing and scientific projects. His current research interest include analytical scenario-based requirement gathering, analysis and modelling, enterprise architecture practices and risk management technics.

Atanas Kiryakov

Ontotext

Atanas Kiryakov is founder and CEO of Ontotext – leading vendor of semantic graph databases and text-analytics. Kiryakov is member of the boards of Sirma Group Holding and the Linked Data Benchmarking Council – association of the graph database vendors, including ORACLE, IBM, Neo Technology, Ontotext and others.
Atanas Kiryakov is a leading expert in semantic databases, author of multiple signature industry publications, including chapters from the widely acclaimed “Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies”. Kiryakov obtained his M.Sc. degree in CS from the Sofia University, Bulgaria, in 1995 with a thesis in AI. Atanas is author of more than 20 scientific publications with more than 3000 citations in reasoning, semantic databases, search, text-mining and linked data management.
Atanas started his career as software engineer in 1989, when he was last grade in the Sofia High School of Mathematics. Kiryakov joined Sirma (the biggest Bulgarian software house) as a software engineer in 1993 and later on became partner. In 2000 he found Ontotext as semantic technology R&D lab in Sirma Group. In 2008 Kiryakov finalized an investment deal for Ontotext with VC fund NEVEQ.

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