Ivan Valkov

CTO

London, England, United Kingdom9 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • CTO at a Y Combinator startup.
  • Expert in Go and Kubernetes.
  • Strong background in software engineering and development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong expertise in Go and Kubernetes.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentKubernetesGoPhpJavaSpring

Other Skills

MySQLAWSAngularJSSQLTest Driven DevelopmentSpring MVCGitSubversionJenkinsMicrosoft SQL ServerCascading Style Sheets (CSS)JavaScriptDockerPythonDjango

Experience

9 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Slicker

Chief Technology Officer

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

GoKubernetesSoftware Development

Optimize all the things

Podcast Host

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Blackrock

Vice President - Senior Software Engineer

May 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Seldon

Software Engineer

Jan 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Improbable

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Part of the Core Engineering team. Working on authentication/authorization, secret management, service meshes, internal tooling for config management, deployments, etc.
  • Writing services in Go, running services in Kubernetes.
GoKubernetes

Channel shift solutions

Software Engineer

Oct 2017Jun 2018 · 8 mos · Greater Glasgow Area

  • One of the first two employees working on GoEatDirect - a food ordering platform for small and medium restaurants. Designed and implemented a pipeline for website generation, mobile restaurant order management app, together with various automation and monitoring tools. Technologies and platforms used include Go, PHP, MySQL, Android, AWS.
GoPHPMySQLAWS

Improbable

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2017Sep 2017 · 3 mos · London, United Kingdom

  • Implemented in-memory and Postgres support for DBProto, a Protocol Buffer based ORM written in Go. DBProto increases engineers' productivity by providing a clear abstraction over common database interactions and helps with avoiding database access pitfalls.
Go

University of glasgow

Demonstrator

Sep 2016Apr 2017 · 7 mos · Greater Glasgow Area

The hut group

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2016Sep 2016 · 3 mos · Northwich

  • Successfully delivered an extension to an existing content management system written in Java, Spring and AngularJS. The extension is being used now and has received excellent feedback.
  • Effectively collaborated with other developers to integrate an existing in-house OAuth2 implementation with one of the new services. Worked on the design and implementation of a flexible and secure account management system, general enough to be used by all projects that are using this OAuth2 implementation.
  • Worked closely with the security team in finding and preventing potential vulnerabilities using threat models.
  • Was part of an Agile team and successfully used methods and practices such as Scrum and Test Driven Development.
JavaSpringAngularJS

Education

University of Glasgow

MSci — Software Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2018

Y Combinator

Jun 2023Sep 2023

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