bnt123
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Pragmatic, curious, and hardworking software engineer with 2.5 years of professional experience ranging from seed-stage to F100 companies. I'm originally from the US and recently relocated to my family's home country, Bulgaria. I love working with teams across business, product, & tech to develop solutions bringing tangible business impact. Referrals available upon request.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: For the right project, yes
Technologies: Go, Python, Typescript, Node.js, React, Svelte, Tailwind, LLMs, many AWS services, PostgreSQL, Docker
Website: https://www.boristopalov.com
Email: [email protected]
Github: https://www.github.com/boristopalov
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boristopalov
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No but happy to travel and meet in-person
Technologies: Go, Python, Node, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Svelte, Tailwind, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, LLMs
Résumé/CV: https://www.boristopalov.com
Email: [email protected]
I am a product-minded full-stack engineer with ~2 YoE, currently working on payments infrastructure at an F100 company. I've worked at startups and enjoy being involved in the business beyond coding. I've recently been experimenting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and would love to talk if you're building in that space. Hoping to make something useful with like-minded people.
Open to full-time roles (preferred) and contract work.
An analogy that I like to illustrate this is: going shopping for clothes vs going shopping for food. Both tend to have ethics attached to them, e.g. with child labor for production of clothing, and slaughtering of animals for production of food. If you walk into a store to buy new clothes, and there are 2 sections of the store, 1 for clothes that were produced using child labor, and 1 for clothes that weren't, and both sections had clothes of the same price and quality, the decision of which section to shop in is very logical. This is how I see going shopping for food- you have sections for food that were produced using factory farming, and sections for food that weren't. Both sources of food are the same price and quality. So the decision to make about which source of food to buy is, again, a logical one. It's also a decision that most people in the developed world have to make every week, at least people who live in cities and do their shopping at grocery stores.
While we unfortunately don't have visibility into whether our clothing is produced with child labor, many of us do know if our food comes from factory farms. In the US, the estimate is that over 95% of meat sold in grocery stores is factory-farmed. Why make the decision to buy that if you could easily avoid it?
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No but happy to travel and meet in-person
Technologies: Go, Python, Node, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Svelte, Tailwind, AWS (certified if that helps), Postgres, MongoDB, LLMs
Résumé/CV: https://www.boristopalov.com
Email: [email protected]
I'm a product-minded full-stack engineer with ~2 YoE, currently working on payments infrastructure at an F100. I've worked at startups and enjoy being involved in the business beyond coding. I've spent lots of time working with LLMs over the last couple years, and I'm lately interested in how we can improve existing infrastructure for LLM-integrated apps (e.g. sandboxing code that LLMs generate).
Open to full-time roles and contract work, and since I'm planning to relocate to Eastern Europe I have flexiblity on pay. Mainly just looking to work on interesting and challenging problems.