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Yordan Ganev | Software Engineer

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Fullstack Engineer with 5+ years of experience developing web applications, with a strong backend focus and hands-on experience in CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure, and web frontend.

EXPERIENCE

Mid Fullstack Engineer @ OVO Energy via TechPods

OVO Energy is one of the UK’s leading retail energy suppliers, pioneering smart-home technologies. At OVO, I develop colleague-facing applications that enable on-site teams to install smart meters.

  • Built and deployed backend microservices in Kotlin/Quarkus — both serverless Lambdas and long-running.
  • Maintained our AWS infrastructure via Terraform — provisioning ECS clusters, API Gateway endpoints, Lambda functions, RDS databases, S3 buckets, Cognito authentication.
  • Built automated data pipelines to stream service events into BigQuery for reporting.
  • Maintained our monitoring in Grafana self-hosted service.
  • Contributed to the client-side web app using React and TypeScript and the Android mobile app using Flutter.
Junior Backend Engineer @ OVO Energy via TechPods
  • Contributed to core microservices built with Kotlin/Quarkus and PostgreSQL.
  • Built HTTP to SOAP adapter layer, enabling seamless integration with legacy SOAP web services.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for frontend and backend applications using CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
Java Engineer Trainee @ Telerik Academy May 2020 – Dec 2020

Full-time, immersive bootcamp focused on programming fundamentals and web application development using Java and Spring.

  • Completed practical coursework in Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, and Relational Databases.
  • Developed a fullstack web application using Java, Spring, MariaDB, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
  • Collaborated in pairs on web projects and as part of a six-member team for the core coursework.
Co-Founder @ The Perfect Present Ltd Nov 2016 – Nov 2018

Design and production of personalized gifts using laser cutting machines. B2C E-Commerce store.

  • Performed cost analysis to determine business strategy which resulted in over 2,500 unit sales per year.
  • Designed the main product, brand identity, and graphic design.

EDUCATION

M.Sc. in Architecture @ UACEG, Sofia
Mathematics and IT @ High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Shumen

SKILLS

Core: Kotlin/Quarkus, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, React, Svelte.

Previous experience: Java/Spring, Apache Kafka, Flutter, CGP, Docker Swarm, Grafana.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

Yochess @ www.yochess.net

Simple, account-free web app for playing chess. Built using SvelteKit for the web app and a custom chess engine for the backend in Kotlin. You can explore the code here github.com/yordan-g/yochess-ui