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Ivan Golemdzhiyski

Ivan Golemdzhiyski

Enfield

Summary

Results-driven Engineering Leader with a proven focus on coaching and mentoring, driving continuous growth, and balancing tech debt with evolving business needs. Passionate about upskilling teams, optimising efficiency, and delivering sustainable value.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Tech Lead

British Gas
10.2023 - Current
  • Created and implemented a component library that allows us to compile react into web-components.
  • Worked on defining a career progression framework for frontend software engineers
  • Focused on creating safe and productive team culture focused on continuous improvement.
  • Used TGROW coaching model and mentoring to help software engineer pass extended probation with flying colours.
  • Developed comprehensive documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing among team members and support long-term maintenance efforts.
  • ptimised resource allocation by effectively prioritizing tasks based on business needs and project timelines.
  • Built a strong relationship with our stakeholders including our 4 product owners building a great trust between the development and product functions of the team.
  • Led architectural decisions for frontend and web component adoption, improving reusability across teams.
  • Drove frontend platform improvements, reducing tech debt and improving developer experience across multiple team
  • Implemented analytics and observability practices, enabling data-driven decision-making for engineering efforts.
  • Implemented analytics and observability practices using datadog, enabling data-driven decision-making for engineering efforts.

Senior Software Engineer

British Gas
03.2023 - 10.2023
  • Worked on refactoring the identity and login management system which handles over 1 million users per day from ember to react delivering the project on a strict timeframe
  • Championed software engineering best practices and clean code to dramatically increase the Dora metrics of the engineering department.
  • Assisted in the creation of a onboarding strategy to successfully bring the onboarding and setup tasks to a single day.
  • Lead the launch of our migrated on-demand engineer booking solution.

Software Engineer

Cazoo
04.2022 - 03.2023
  • Drove the launch of a project using serverless framework, node, react and terraform by highlighting and informing the team on the positives and negatives of each technology and leading the discussion on picking the right technologies for the project requirements.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders to identify and assess problems in their current workflow and implement solutions to those problems.
  • Working in a team that produced reliable code and resulted in 0 major errors for the past 6 months through the use of TDD, CI pipelines, and logging and monitoring using datadog.
  • Orchestrated cross-team initiatives and upskilled new joiners in python to allow them to better work with other teams in the company.
  • Created and hosted an AWS and terraform workshop to provide knowledge to the entire team.
  • Worked on improving CI/CD pipelines to reduce the time from 20 minutes to under 10.
  • Presented and implemented new team ways of working to improve productivity like introducing atomic folder structure, typeorm, synthetic tests, and better documentation.
  • Used SQL to provide reports to help identify key opportunities.
  • Adapted to different languages and technologies based on project requirements.

Software Engineer

Arup
08.2019 - 04.2022
  • Led the development of an innovative new project using unity, react, terraform, node, and python while upskilling the team in best practices.
  • Worked on designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS and reducing cloud costs by 60%.
  • Mentored new joiners and worked closely with apprentices to kickstart their software engineering careers by highlighting training videos, breaking down tickets, providing actionable pull request reviews, and pairing to improve their confidence.
  • Gathered requirements for a new project and produced UML diagrams to help break down larger problems and guide the team to delivering the project.
  • Contributed to the introduction of TDD within the team by hosting a workshop on TDD and presenting the negatives and positives of TDD compared to the previous development style.
  • Created database design and cloud architectures taking into account security best practices and presented it for approval to a board of cloud experts.
  • Helped host a hackathon to upskill the company in a react, nodejs global company-wide automation platform
  • Leading the development of a data management and visualization tool using flask to handle the process of mobilizing staff on the largest infrastructure project in Europe.
  • Worked on the implementation of 3D imagery projects using threejs to display and analysis tunnels.

Education

Certificate of Higher Education - Computer Science

London South Bank University
05.2020

Skills

  • Node
  • Next
  • React
  • Python
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Flask
  • Docker
  • Serverless Framework
  • Datadog
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Monitoring and Logging
  • Graphql
  • Project management
  • Technical problem solving
  • Test-driven development
  • Requirements gathering
  • Software architecture design

Achievements

  • At Arup I architected and lead the initial development of an AI tunnel inspection webapp that was shortlisted for a tunneling award.
  • Won "Stand out Performer" award at British gas H2 2024
  • Nominated for "Motivator" award at British gas H2 2024
  • Won an award for stand out performer in H1 2024.
  • Won an award for team leadership in H2 2024.
  • Competed with hundreds of others to be selected for the mirror leadership team for the UK's biggest infrastructure project; HS2. Working with Senior leadership to identify and implement digital projects.

Timeline

Tech Lead

British Gas
10.2023 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

British Gas
03.2023 - 10.2023

Software Engineer

Cazoo
04.2022 - 03.2023

Software Engineer

Arup
08.2019 - 04.2022

Certificate of Higher Education - Computer Science

London South Bank University

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