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I am Stoyan Ivanov

CTO & Co-Founder @ Proclaris | Building the first AI-native ERP Engine

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Work Experience

Co-Founder & CTO, Proclaris

Since Jun 2026

As CTO & Co-Founder at Proclaris, I lead platform architecture, AI agent systems, ML development, infrastructure, and product engineering for the first AI-native ERP engine.

Software Developer, Mont Soft Ltd.

Jan 2025 - Jun 2026

Designed and built distributed systems for enterprise applications with microservice architectures. Managed architecture serving 50,000 MAU and handling 5,000 requests/second. Worked with AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, DevOps automation, and CI/CD pipelines, operating production systems end to end from architecture and deployment to monitoring and scalability.

Co-Founder & CTO, Dressr

Jan 2025 - Jan 2026

Co-founded Dressr, a fashion marketplace that grew to thousands of MAU and partnered with clothing brands in Bulgaria. Built the ML recommendation engine using clothing-attribute preprocessing, cached personalized rankings, and rapid feedback updates from user behavior.

External Lecturer, Vocational School of Computer Programming and Innovation

Sep 2024 - Jun 2025

Taught 11th grade students advanced programming with C# and .NET, focusing on object-oriented principles, generics, inheritance, polymorphism, and design patterns. Designed and delivered lectures, exams, and projects.

Junior System Administrator, GluckIT Ltd.

Apr 2024 - Jan 2025

Managed on-premise and cloud infrastructure for 30 clients, including hybrid Active Directory and Entra ID environments, Windows Server services such as DHCP, DNS, and FPS, Kubernetes clusters, Hyper-V and Xen Orchestra virtualization, network infrastructure, Apple School Manager and JAMF MDM, and Azure/AWS-hosted applications.

.NET Developer, Scalefocus

Nov 2022 - Apr 2024

Implemented custom ERP back-end development with .NET 6.0 as a part-time developer.

Back-end Developer Intern, Scalefocus

Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

Worked on an innovative GIS aimed at helping students, building back-end features with .NET Core and Microsoft Azure.

Django, Scrapy and AI Developer (Python), A Data Pro

Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

Worked on an AI-powered project that gave citizens quick access to news they consider important. Used Scrapy and Django to build web applications in a team environment.

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Django and Scrapy Developer (Python), A Data Pro

Jul 2021

Helped create Webmetry, a web application that shows product information from online stores using Django and Scrapy.

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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
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Nov 24, 2022
Dec 8, 2022
Feb 7, 2023
Apr 8, 2022
Mar 25, 2023
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Jun 1, 2023
Jul 2023
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Oct 21, 2023
Dec 1, 2023
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Dec 22, 2023
May 2024
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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.