- Manage geographically distributed engineering teams focused on design and implementation of core PayPal features. Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation and rollout of new features. Work with engineers, other managers, Product Management, Quality Assurance, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to development goals and principles. Provide mentorship to team members in design, coding techniques and management practices. Proactively identify and resolve resource conflict and set priority for parallel projects. Identify project risks and make recommendations to reduce same. Share rollout and on-call responsibility with the rest of the management team. Manage implementation of and provide feedback on new processes. Provide performance evaluations and make staffing decisions.
- Work with Product Management to identify Business Requirements. Create and review technical design. Provide technical and process guidance to other Software Engineers. Implement new product features using C++ and SQL in an Apache/Linux environment. Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities. Provide rollout support. Develop and update documentation.
- Section Leader for CS106A/B: Programming Methodology/Abstractions. Teaching Assistant for CS106A, CS103A: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science, CS103B: Discrete Structures, and CS154: Automata and Complexity Theory. Led weekly discussion sessions, held office hours, helped create and grade exams and homework, maintained class web pages, gave occasional lectures, managed 13 Section Leaders as head TA for CS106A.
- Designed and implemented a process manager to start up, monitor, maintain, and shut down the Mantrap 3.0 cages (decoy virtual hosts). Wrote extensive design documentation. Experienced the development process of a large commercial product.
- Worked in a small team to design, implement, and test an application to automatically scan multiple hosts for network vulnerabilities. Stored the scan results in a database and developed a web-based GUI to retrieve and display the data. Gained experience with network programming in C, multithreading, UNIX IPC, MySQL's C and PERL API's, and shell scripting.
- Participated in a project for replacement of old network infrastructure. Installed, configured, and maintained network equipment. Provided network troubleshooting for the Stanford Medical Center. Trained new student employees.
- Implemented software to automate some tactical operations of the AEGIS battleship Combat Information Center. Designed and developed an intelligent Coordination and Control System simulation for the US Air Force.
- Built relational databases from collections of web pages for the MIDAS (MIning Data At Stanford) project.
- Provided consulting and technical services for a cluster of 60 Macs and 30 PCs, a Multimedia Lab, and a Language Lab. Acquired customer-oriented problem solving skills. Gained experience with the university computing environment and multimedia resources.
- Provided general office administration and primary telephone and front desk reception support. Assisted with managing Filemaker Pro equipment inventory databases and departmental filing systems and with processing incoming and outgoing correspondence.
- Translated documents from Bulgarian to English and vice versa as an independent contractor.
- Native speaker of Bulgarian, fluent in Russian. Proficiency in French
and working knowledge of Romanian, Spanish, and Serbo-Croatian. Beginning German.
- Member of MENSA.
- Played in volleyball clubs "Levski" and "Miner", Sofia,
Bulgaria, 9/88 - 5/93.
- Personal interests include soccer, skiing, camping, fishing, hard and progressive rock music. Avid reader.
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