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Starting in the early nineties back in school doing computing challenges, playing with an Apple ][ clone at home and continuing this trend over the past 20 years makes me a seasoned software developer with a passion for challenges. Being born in Sofia, Bulgaria in a family of engineers and doing an extracurricular math tutors brought me to the Sofia School of Mathematics for my secondary education. This was followed by the Computer Engineering studies at the Technical University of Sofia.

My early professional career mostly involved relational database systems and applications for government and cellular network performance analysis. Back then the Internet world was still dominated by Netscape and Internet-enabled application were pioneering efforts. What followed were desktop applications empowered by Sybase PowerBuilder.

Gently the focus shifted into the information security appliances area with the inception of the managed code languages and their promise to free us from the nasty security problems inherent in C/C++ applications with poor memory management. The first solutions we brought still relied on C++ code for the time critical parts but any interaction was purposefully built in java. What followed was the SUN Microsystems and Microsoft licensing woes and the birth of the Microsoft managed code platform. .NET was embraced for it freed our security focused projects from the most nasty security issues: buffer overflows, code execution exploits and integer overflows.

The platform matured rapidly over the last years gaining popularity and features from the functional programming world - lambdas, LINQ, etc. -  it is the Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) that kept me busy over the last two years and made some incredible usability features possible. Frankly speaking the clients love it!

On occasion other projects called for my attention. As an systems engineer I have put in place the network security infrastructure and voice over IP for a wireless network operator (WISP) in Berlin, Germany, the town I lived for 5 years. That's what a passion for TCP/IP networks does to you. The social network rush came along with a project to beat MySpace.com to the German speaking users by providing a dynamic page editing toolbox and other web 2.0 bells and whistles.

With a passion for technology I am inspired by functional programming and play with Microsoft F# and functional and asyncronous C# in my free time.

I relocated to Auckland, New Zealand in 2011 and I am enjoying sailing in the Waitemata Harbour or hiking the trails on the west coast from Watipu to Bethels Beach.