About
With 6+ years of experience as a Software and Data Engineer, I enjoy tackling challenges, puzzle-solving via code, and being actively involved in designing software architectures and solutions. Whether it's designing resilient systems, untangling complex datasets, or writing clean, efficient code, I take pride in creating solutions that make an impact. I’m passionate about delivering high-quality, maintainable code while following engineering best practices to ensure stability, scalability, and (most importantly) peace of mind.

Beyond my work in tech, I’m deeply passionate about animal conservation and environmental causes. I regularly volunteer for animal welfare initiatives and find tremendous joy in supporting projects that protect those without a voice of their own. My commitment to problem-solving doesn’t just end with code—it extends to leave a positive impact on both people and nature.
Basic Information
Email:
a.dimitrovaa@gmail.com
Phone:
(please use the contact form)
Address:
Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland province, The Netherlands
Languages:
English (professional)
Dutch (basic)
Bulgarian (native)
Software Engineering Skills
Python
Java
API development
Software Testing
Domain Driven Design
Microservice Architecture
Shell scripting
Data Engineering Skills
Python
ETL (BIG DATA)
HADOOP
APACHE SPARK
APACHE AIRFLOW
Snowflake Data Warehouse
(No)SQL
Software Testing
Tools & Tech Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Docker
Kubernetes
REST APIs
GIT
GitLab CI
JFrog Artifactory
DataDog (alerting and monitoring)
Octopus Deploy
Architecture Design
Agile (Scrum, Kanban)
Work Experience

September 2021 - August 2024

Paige.AI
Software Engineer

  • Participate in the design and development of core components within our microservice architecture, applying Domain Driven Design principles and practices.
  • Participate in the design and development of APIs.
  • Perform testing on our products prior to each release: unit testing, smoke testing, integration, user acceptance testing
  • Provide support to our customers with regards to our products: root cause analysis, debugging and fixing issues that may arise or planning their fix in a timely manner, thus contributing to excellent customer experience of our clients with Paige's products.
  • Adding new features to the "internally open-sourced" projects that are shared and used within our products in order to improve their functionality and/or security for everyone at Paige.
  • ==== Tech stack ====
    Python, Sanic, AWS, Gitlab/Gitlab CI, MongoDB, pytest, DataDog, JFrog Artifactory, TeamCity, Docker, K8s

    October 2018 - August 2021
    3 yrs

    Nike Inc.
    Big Data Engineer

  • Participating in the design and development of a highly effective, modular and 100% automated framework for big data ingestion, cleansing, curation, aggregation, following Nike's data lake standards and practices. Maintaining the high quality, testing and improvement of the framework, as well as training and helping other developers to contribute to it.
  • Build pipelines to process near real-time data flows (batch) to our Nike Data Lake and thus, contribute to excel the data quality of key Nike partners.
  • Design and implement buy plan pipelines ready for the business to better plan the stores' stock, to improve in-store planning, and thus, to increase revenues tremendously.
  • Design and implement data reconciliation pipelines aimed to certify key Nike partners' point of sales systems and ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency.
  • Code talks: participate in preparing a chapter in a "Getting to the next level of Spark" training which was held at Nike EHQ (NL) and ELC (Belgium) as well as facilitating it.
  • CoP: part of the "Head nerds in charge" :) team involved in establishing standards and best practices for all the levels of our tech stack in the ED&A dept., such as CI/CD, data quality, coding standards, testing standards etc.
  • Help our DevOps engineer with setting up ci/cd pipelines and learning from him
  • ==== Tech stack ====
    Python (OOP & functional), Spark, AWS (S3, Athena, Hive, EMR, DynamoDB), Airflow, Jenkins, Tableau, SQL (SnowSQL, SparkSQL), Snowflake WH

    Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
    (part-time)
    2 yrs 4 mos

    Luminiosity Events B.V. / Apollo Artists Agency
    Event Manager / Artist Manager

    Luminosity Events

  • Artist Hospitality and communication
  • Artists promotion / advertisement
  • Researching for, Identifying and negotiating with prospective partners
  • Social media content management
  • Communication with event attendees
  • Promoter's web site content management
  • Researching for new services, features, possibilities for the promoter
  • Design/write newsletters, leaflets etc.
  • https://luminosity-events.nl/

    Apollo Artists Agency

  • Negotiations on artist fees
  • Artist management
  • Preparing contracts and invoices
  • Organizational activities regarding gigs of the artists

  • ARTISTS:
    Scot Project, Airwave, Daniel Skyver, Daniel Kandi, Allan Morrow, DuMonde, Ciaran McAuley, Basil O'Glue

    July 2013 - August 2015
    2 yrs 2 mos

    Sutherland Global Services, Google
    Data Migration/Sync & Chrome specialist

    Provide top-notch technical support to GSuite customers. Assist customer with their migration to GSuite (then called Google Business Apps). Migrate emails from different providers, sync with Outlook on Windows and Mac, fix issues with IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols in order to fix sending/receiving email issues. Resolve complicated Chrome (OS, network, sync) issues.

    Education

    2015 - 2018

    Master's Degree


    MSc in Computer Science, Software Technology

    Delft University of Technology

    Courses taken:

  • Data Analysis & Visualization
  • Databases and Data Mining
  • Distributed Algorithms
  • Mining Software Repositories
  • Software Testing and Reverse Engineering
  • Web Science & Engineering
  • 3D Computer Graphics and Animation
  • Programming and data science
  • Web Data Management (NoSQL, MapReduce, Hadoop, MongoDB, CouchDB, HBase, Casandra etc)
  • Information Retrieval
  • Multimedia Search and Recommendation
  • Dutch Elementary 1 (A1) & 2 (A2) + Dutch Intermediate 1 (B1)
  • Out of curriculum (self-paced) TU Delft courses:

  • Algorithms & Data Structures
  • OOP (Java)
  • MSC THESIS PROJECT:

    Working on enabling Educational Resources (ERs) to be easily found and re-used by supporting researchers and ER authors to describe their resources with the appropriate metadata. To do this, I designed several patterns for obtaining specific types of metadata in the most efficient and easy for the user way. The experimental work was focused on proving the efficiency of the proposed patterns by extracting semantic metadata. This was achieved by utilizing Machine Learning techniques such as Intent Mining and Text Classification algorithms on MOOC video scripts, covering topics within computer science, mathematics and physics.

    2009 - 2015

    Bachelor's Degree


    BSc in Automation and Robotics

    Technical University of Sofia

    General courses: English; Mathematics; Physics; Chemistry, Mechanics

    Occupational courses: Electronics; Mobile Robots; Embedded Systems; Artificial Intelligence

    GRADUATION THESIS (Grade 5 / 6): Research on domestic spy robots, followed by analysis on each of their systems: autonomy, sensors, energy, communication, control etc. Choose, implement and program a microprocessor and sensors for the educational robotic platform to serve as a spy robot. Experiments to proof effectiveness, testing the distance of indirect wireless communication (i.e. different rooms of apartment) and camera functions.

    2004 - 2009

    High School

    Italian Language & Informatics

    105 specialized school for foreign languages

    Specialized programme for extended studying of Italian Language and Informatics.

    References
    Hobbies & Activities
    Crafting
    DIY Projects
    Coding
    Animals
    Animal rescue
    Hedgehog care
    Birdwatching
    Wildlife photography
    Traveling
    Travel blogging (see my blog)
    Carnivorous plants
    Reading books
    Volunteering
    Stargazing
    Snowboarding
    Swimming
    Dancing
    Kangoo jumps
    Miniature crafting
    Gardening
    Saxophone (listen to)
    Nature
    Soundscaping (record and edit nature sounds)
    Causes & Beliefs
    Elephant Conservation
    Animal conservation as a whole
    Ocean and marine life conservation
    Nature preservation
    Wildlife care
    Positive news and thinking
    Volunteering
    Sustainbility
    Recycling & Upcycling
    Volunteering experience
    Hedgehog caretaker @ the local hegdehog center (May 2024) - present (every weekend) -> (LINK to org)
    Translation from Dutch to Bulgarian @ The Wild Animals foundation, Bulgaria, 2024 -> (LINK to org)
    Blackbirds educational video filming and editing @ The Wild Animals foundation, Bulgaria, 2023-2024 -> (LINK to org)
    Contact Me
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    a.dimitrovaa@gmail.com