Hello,

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I am Stoyan Ivanov

Just a kid, trying to make the world a better place! 🚀

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Work Experience

Software Developer, MontSoft

Since Jan 2025

Lead a team of developers in planning, developing, and deploying microservice architectures from scratch, implementing AI-powered automated telemetry tracking for applications.

Co-Founder & CTO, Dressr

Jan 2025 - Jan 2026

Co-founded Dressr, a fashion marketplace that grew to thousands of registered users and partnered with clothing brands in Bulgaria. Built the recommendation engine using clothing-attribute preprocessing, cached personalized rankings, and rapid feedback updates from user behavior. Worked directly with brand owners to onboard inventory and generate insights from user preferences.

External Lecturer, VSCPI

Sep 2024 - Jun 2025

Taught various programming courses to students in 11th grade. Responsible for preparing and delivering lectures, as well as evaluating student performance.

System Administrator, GluckIT

Apr 2024 - Dec 2024

Manage on-premise and cloud infrastructure for multiple clients, operating hybrid environments and production systems end-to-end. Built and maintain Kubernetes clusters, deploy applications across Microsoft Azure and AWS, and run hybrid identity with Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. Oversee networking, virtualization (Hyper-V, Xen), and device management via Apple School Manager and Jamf.

Intern Full Stack Developer with .Net and React, AIBEST Tech Academy and Proxiad SEE

Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

Made a CV creation platform with randomly selected student from Burgas. Made with ASP.Net and React.

Intern .Net Developer, ScaleFocus

Feb 2023 - Jun 2023

Worked on project for school canteen, where students and school staff can reserve meals. Made with ASP.NET Core and Blazor WASM.

Intern .Net Developer, ScaleFocus

Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

Worked on innovative geographic information system, made with ASP.NET Core and Vue.js. Responsible for developing and maintaining the backend of the project.

Intern Django, Scrapy and AI Developer

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

Created a web app that scrapes information from gov.bg and creates statistics using NLP, as part of an internship project. Responsible for developing the web app using Django framework, building web scrapers using Scrapy library, training an NLP model using Spacy toolkit, and deploying the app to Azure App Services using GitHub Actions.

Intern Django and Scrapy Developer

Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

Helped create a web app which showcases information about the scraping results from Scrapy crawler. Learned how to use Django with Django ORM to develope APIs. Also learned how to work in a team while also developing my teamwork skills.

Education

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Since Sep 2024

Studying Accounting, Finance and Business Administration in English. Part of Business Club.

Vocational School of Computer Programming and Innovations

Sep 2019 - Jun 2024

Learn the basics of Programming, Object-Oriented Programming and Algorithms and Data Structures in C++, C# and JavaScript. Learn the basics of SQL. Participate in many extracurricular activities, such as Arduino, Cisco CCNA - Routing and Switching, IoT and many more. Took part in the Student Council, organised various events such as Code Of The Future Hackathon and participate in Erasmus+ K2 .

Achievements

Jun 6, 2020
Nov 27, 2020
Jun 2021
Dec 2021
Feb 12, 2022
Mar 12, 2022
May 7, 2022
Jun 6, 2022
Jun 6, 2022
Jul 6, 2022
Nov 6, 2022
Nov 24, 2022
Dec 8, 2022
Feb 7, 2023
Apr 8, 2022
Mar 25, 2023
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
Apr 23, 2023
Apr 25, 2023
Jun 1, 2023
Jul 2023
Jul 21, 2023
Oct 21, 2023
Dec 1, 2023
Dec 8, 2023
Dec 22, 2023
May 2024
Apr 2024
Jun 2024
Apr 2025
Nov 2025
Apr 2026

Fifth place at National Olympiad of Information Technology

Jun 6, 2020

One of the most prestigious competitions in Bulgaria. Our project was a smart house, that you could control from your smartphone.

Second place at the NETIT "John Atanasov" competition

Nov 27, 2020

The project was about creating a website, using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We had to create a website for a Smart House.

Second place at the A Data Pro internship competition

Jun 2021

The project was about scraping data from different websites and then visualizing it, using Python, Django and Scrapy.

Went as an exchange student to Metz, France, as a part of Erasmus+ K2

Dec 2021

For a week, I was in Metz, France, where I met a lot of new people and learned a lot about the French culture.

Third place at Microsoft Imagine Cup Junior Virtual AI Hackathon

Feb 12, 2022

Our project utilized the power of AI to help the preservation of beaches. We used Azure Custom Vision to train a model, that would detect trash on the beach from satellite images. Then, an events was created in a mobile app, where people could go and clean the beach.

Third place at the "Електрониада 2022" competition

Mar 12, 2022

Went to Ruse to compete in the "Електрониада" competition, organised by Ruse University.

First place at the International Olympiad of Applied Sciences

May 7, 2022

The International Olympiad of Applied Sciences is an international competition, where students from all over the world compete in different categories. I competed in the category of Computer Science, where I got first place. The competion was organised by Cisco Romania.

Third place at Robo Challenge Burgas, category "Line follower"

Jun 6, 2022

Robo Challenge Burgas is a competition, where students from all over Bulgaria compete in different categories. I competed in the category of Line follower, where I got third place.

Second place at Robo Challenge Burgas, category "Mini sumo"

Jun 6, 2022

Robo Challenge Burgas is a competition, where students from all over Bulgaria compete in different categories. I competed in the category of Mini sumo, where I got second place.

First place at Updata one internship competition

Jul 6, 2022

Our project was about scraping data, analyzing it and then visualizing it. We used Python, Django, Scrapy and NLP.

Second place at the Burgas Hackathon 2022

Nov 6, 2022

The theme was Cybersecurity. We created a browser extension that helps school IT admins, by blocking malicious websites and sending a report to the admin.

Speaker at the BurgasDev Junior First Edition

Nov 24, 2022

Spoke about the experience of writing a project in a real IT company.

Award from Burgas Municipality for outstanding performance in the field of IT

Dec 8, 2022

In honour of the 8th of November - the day of Burgas, I was awarded for my achievements in the field of IT.

Nominate for the BAIT awards in the category "Youth Award"

Feb 7, 2023

BAIT Awards are one of the most prestigious awards in the field of IT in Bulgaria. I was nominated for the Youth Award, which is given to a young person, who has achieved a lot in the field of IT.

Second place at the "Електрониада 2023" competition

Apr 8, 2022

Went to Ruse to compete in the "Електрониада" competition, organised by Ruse University.

Second place at the National Competition of Information Technology - Blagoevgrad

Mar 25, 2023

We won second place at the National Competition of Information Technology, which was held in Blagoevgrad. Our project was a drone, that uses AI to determine, if a beach is polluted.

Teaching the basics of JavaScript to kids from Burgas, April 2023.

Apr 2023

Coding Kids Burgas is a joint project between Burgas municipality, Epam Bulgaria, and my school to provide free programming education to kids from Burgas. I taught JavaScript

First place at HackAUBG 5.0

Apr 2023

The theme was "Entertainment" and we created a web game, that you can play with your friends, thr point of which is to continue a story, by giving prompts to an AI. We used React, Node.js, Socket.io and Stable Diffusion.

Laureate for outstanding performance at NOIT

Apr 23, 2023

Won laureate for having grade 6.00 at the National Olympiad of Information Technology.

Award for outstanding performance in Second national conference "ITA 2023"

Apr 25, 2023

Made a report about a project of mine.

Award "Вярната посока" for outstanding performance in the field of Education and IT

Jun 1, 2023

Awarded for my achievements in the field of IT and Education.

Teaching the basics of JavaScript to kids of Burgas, July 2023

Jul 2023

Coding Kids Burgas is a joint project between Burgas municipality, Epam Bulgaria, and my school to provide free programming education to kids from Burgas. I taught JavaScript

First place at the AiBest Tech Academy competition

Jul 21, 2023

Our project was a modern resume builder. We used React, ASP.NET and Azure SQL.

First place at the Commerzbank Collabothon for challenge "#FutureFintech"

Oct 21, 2023

Our project is an innovative fintech app, that automatically tops up your purchases, and donaits the rest to charity.

Third place in the Cisco European Cyber Cup finals

Dec 1, 2023

My team and I competed in the Cisco European Cyber Cup finals, where we got third place. The competition was about Cybersecurity.

Organised Code of the Future ‘23 Hackathon

Dec 8, 2023

I and a few of my classmates organise a hackathon,where students from all over Bulgaria competed in different categories.

Award for teching 11 grade students in the Fundamentals of Azure

Dec 22, 2023

Taught 11 grade students from my school in the Fundamentals of Azure.

Award for the best student in class of 2024

May 2024

Received an award for having high academic performance for the year of 2024.

Third place at HackAUBG 6.0

Apr 2024

The theme was "Big Data" and we create an app that gives you important insights and competiteve advantage by analyzing your products trends on social media.

Schwarz IT Hackathon 2024 3rd Place

Jun 2024

We made an app that helps you navigate in large retail stores.

Second place at HackAUBG 7.0

Apr 2025

The theme was "Space and Aerospace Engineering" and we created a platform that helps airlines predict maintanance and failures of their planes, by using AI to analyze the data from the previous flights and give them insights.

Amusnet <Hackathon/> 3rd Place

Nov 2025

The theme was "Shadow Play" and we made a game, that uses your mobile phone as a controller. It detects the movement of your phone and gives you points, if you are doing the right movements.

First place at HackAUBG 8.0

Apr 2026

The theme was "Survival" and we created a platform that helps to coordinate the supply chain of blood donations to ensure they reach the right people.