I like computers, art, and bringing ideas to life.

Personal Info

(Contacts and stuff)

I am Boris Marinov, age 35.

• phone number: is +359 883 420029
• e-mail - marinovboris@protonmail.com
• Personal website - https://boris-marinov.github.io
• Github - boris-marinov

Skills

Technical

• Deep knowledge of the web platform.
• Huge experience with front-end JavaScript development - coding single page applications with React, Angular and other frameworks, designing interfaces with HTML and CSS. D3. Canvas API.
• Experience with back-end web development with node and Ruby on Rails. Experience with SQL database development.
• Good knowledge of TypeScript. Huge interest in type systems.
• Huge interest in functional programming experience with Haskell and PureScript.
• Ability to construct technical solutions that span across multiple technologies.
• Experience with creating and maintaining software documentation, both developer-oriented (API docs, product overviews and tutorials) and user-oriented (integrated tips, video tutorials).
• Experience with designing user interfaces and user experience.
• Experience with handling server administration, deployments etc. Good Unix skills, some AWS experience.

Project management

• Experience in leading small to medium software projects - facilitating scrums performing code reviews, making architecture decisions, solving tech and people issues, distributing the work between the team members.
• Experience in mentoring junior developers and other team members - performing induction trainings, conducting one-on-one meetings and reviews.
• Experience in communicating with clients, grokking different domains, putting down and implementing business requirements, and in general keeping them happy.

Domain knowledge

• Experience with implementing ERP solutions.
• Experience with implementing finance and trading platforms.
• Experience with implementing accounting/bookkeeping software.
• Experience with implementing software for handling reservations and event registration.
• Experience with handling payments with Stripe.
• Experience with OAuth single-sign-on solutions.

Misc

• Background in writing, especially technical writing.
• Background in web and graphic design art, typography, type design.

Work Experience

(What I do from 9 to 5)

Lead JS Developer - Growyze

from: Apr 2022 to Jul 2023

I was involved at a very early-stage startup, where I did everything, from organizational, to product design to development.

• Front-end development with React.js and TypeScript.
• Designing new features, preparing wireframes with Figma
• Supervising and mentoring junior developers

Fullstack Ruby on Rails Developer- Dext

from: February 2021 to: July 2021

Worked on a cutting-edge solution for accounting and bookkeeping with Ruby on Rails, contributed to an internal UI framework based on React, collaborating with a team of product owners, UI designers, and business analysts.

Fullstack JS Developer/Project manager - US Squash

from: January 2017 to: February 2021

I lead a small team of JS and SQL developers, working on the Club Locker - a web-based platform for everything related to squash.

• Reimagined and refactored the Club Locker platform turning it from a US Squash-centered platform to one which serves the needs of various organizations around the world.
• Facilitated a complete rewrite the platform’s front-end, using Angular and TypeScript, and following the principles of component-based design.
• Implemented Scrum in the team, improved the process of planning, task estimation, testing etc.

Senior JavaScript Developer - Royal Bank of Scotland (via epam).

from: November 2015 to: January 2017

Developed the front-end layer of a large currency-trading system, working closely with a team of product owners, designers, and business analysts, in improving every aspect of the product.

Lead front-end Developer - Tick42

from: September 2013 to: November 2015

I worked on multiple projects and products created for the needs of the largest investment banks of the world, such as JP Morgan.

• Designed and implemented Tick42 Glue - a WebSocket-based RPC and connectivity library, which later became an integral part of the company’s core product.

• Designed and implemented Config Manager Workbench - A user interface for a MongoDB-based configuration storage service which generates UI-s for editing entries with arbitrary schema and supports several modes of data representation.
• Led several client projects for major European financial institutions and supervised the work of several junior JavaScript Developers.

Senior Technical Writer - Bosch

from: November 2011 to: September 2013

Worked on a developer-facing documentation portal for Bosch’s solutions for the Internet of Things. I worked on their

• Documented API-s of Bosch software development libraries.
• Wrote tutorials and code examples
• Developed a web-based information portal.

Education

I have one formal education degree - a bachelor’s degree in PR and mass communication at the Sofia University.

And I also have several informal ones:

• Design - I have a very good visual literacy, besides UX design I have done graphic design. I also design typefaces.
• CS and mathematics - I have been passionate about learning CS since I started working in IT, even more so since I became interested in functional programming. I also study mathematics as a hobby. Here is a guide to category theory that I am working on.