Short Bio

The year is intentionally omitted - wisdom comes with experience, not with age. I was raised by my grandparents, Ivanka and Stoyu, in Kazanlak, a small town with huge history and strong traditions. It is my grandparents to whom I owe most of the person that I am today - they taught me to be inquisitive, hardworking, competitive and loyal. I stayed with them for the first 13 years of my life and had a wonderful time every single day.

I moved to the town of Plovdiv with my parents and 5 years later, graduated from the Plovdiv English Language School, the most prestigious school in Bulgaria at that time (it still ranks among the top few). All schools in Bulgaria require students to take placement exams. I ranked second at the ELS' exam. This school is iconic - there are movies made about it, there are songs about it and everything said and sang in then is true. This school helps you shape up a personality and opens your eyes so you are prepared for the world that comes after high school. I met my best friends there and we are still best friends with all of them. Unfortunately, those years passed as well and I had to go to college.

I enrolled at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia. This time ranking third in the national college placement exams. Again, this is the best school of Economics in Bulgaria, although many graduates of the Sofia University would like you to believe otherwise. I lived for five years in a medley of a campus, known as Students Town (Студентски град). There is no student experience anywhere else in the world that is more real or more educational. In a good and bad way. But you come out ready for the real life. I can provide details if someone is interested.

Five years down the road, I moved to the US to study Computer Science at Brown University. I though that going to an ivy league school would give me a different perspective on life and different experience too. It did in every possible way. It's not easy to be student twice but if you are considering it, I highly recommend you do it. Nothing compares to being back on campus and in the classroom. Of course, I already had the advantage of my prior Masters degree and all my years of international experience which helped a lot at Brown.

The time spent there quickly flew away and before I knew it, I found myself working on Wall Street. Working for Goldman Sachs has turned out to be very rewarding in any sense of the word. Aside of the practical experience I acquired, I also learnt a lot - a company of more than 30k people is an interesting place to be. Especially if it survives all the market turmoil.

I live in New York now and besides my work I have a lot of other activities that I enjoy. I will spare you the details here, but if you are interested, check out my resume page. Some people say I have achieved a lot so far, I think that's not entirely true. Putting a quantitative measure on achievement is not an easy task and is always very subjective. Anyway, that sums up the details. If you are interested in finding out more, contacting me is just a click away.

One more thing - dynamic web applications. My passion. It all started at Brown when I was hired to maintain the University's websites. Soon I found out that not only I liked this type of work a lot but I was very good at it too. So little by little maintaining web pages transformed into developing websites, they in turn grew into creating web tools, and suddenly I was designing and implementing extensive and multi-featured dynamic web applications. I love doing this and I am very good at it. I don't think of it as work, I consider it a hobby. My business partners will confirm the exceptional quality of my work. If you want to find out more about this, please feel free to browse my portfolio page.