Konrad is a software engineer working at Allegro, a major Polish e-commerce company. He has 20 years of experience in the IT industry in various roles (mostly as a developer and a technical leader) in software companies. He spent the last 17 years of his career with Java-related technologies. For the past two years he’s used Kotlin as his primary programming language (with delight). He blogs a bit, gives talks and trainings and contributes to open source.
Ned Dervenkov is Vice-chairman of Board at BESCO – the Bulgarian Startup Association. Ned has been involved in the Bulgarian startup community for quite some years now, has launched his own startups, failed and launched again. Besides BESCO, Ned is also involved in a proptech business.
Marcin Moskala is an experienced Android developer, teacher, and an official Jetbrains’ Kotlin training partner. He is the founder of Kt. Academy, author of the book “Android Development with Kotlin”, and an active programming community member. He is also the main author on the biggest medium publication about Kotlin and a speaker invited to many programming conferences.
Nikolay Angelov got into coding in early 2007 when he wrote his first mIRC script. He realized his love for coding and jumped into Web Programming. He continued to work in the field for 8 years and gained experience with various languages, for example, PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL. He then took a short break from programming to work on personal projects. A year ago, Nikolay re-discovered his passion for programming while taking a course about Blockchain. He is now a Blockchain Trainer and a Blockchain Developer. His passions are everything Blockchain, Solidity, C++, Vim and Blogging. Nikolay has a Personal Blog where you can read about topics that interest him: http://nikolaytech.com
Tihomir has more than 10 years of experience developing web applications, the last 6 of them working on user interfaces for VMware’s vSphere suite. He is currently a part of the team that is transforming the extensibility model of the suite and the way third party plugins are loaded, authenticated and isolated.
Dr. Pavlin Dobrev is a Director at Bosch.IO. The company owned by Bosch is focused on developing AI-powered Internet of Things (IoT) solutions focused on connected IoT ecosystem and tear down silos to create a truly connected world. He is charge for the Quality Management of the Bosch IoT Suite, the entire support of ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 at Bosch.IO, as well as various research and customer projects.
Dr. Dobrev has more than two decades of experience with IoT, AI, Cloud and Java technologies, as well as in OSGi and embedded systems. He is an active participant in the OSGi Alliance, Java Community Process and other technical standards groups. He is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and participates in the development of the Eclipse IDE as a committer in the Equinox project.
Pavlin Dobrev has a PhD in Computer Systems in the area of Knowledge Management from the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and holds an MsC in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University. He has written many scientific and technical publications and participated as speaker in prestigious international conferences.
Maria Hristova, PhD has a Master’s degree in Business and Human Resources Development & Administration. She specialized in Paris X Nanterre, integrating people with physical and mental disabilities. She is developing a scientific paper on the topic of Development of the dual career model in Bulgaria.
Maria has held the position of Commercial Director in a digital marketing agency for almost 14 years. She has been a lecturer in statistics for more than 4 years, and currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of the Sofia Municipal Agency for Privatization and Investment, part of the general administration of Sofia Municipality.
Result-oriented specialist in the field of digital strategies, innovations in the educational system and the dialogue between business, education and administration.
Iskren maintains backend infrastructure for millions of users for a messaging company, writing asynchronous code before it was cool. He’s also a maintainer of moment.js.
Tony has been in the finance industry for over 15 years. He worked as a developer for boutique hedge funds through to some of the largest financial firms before taking on the role of CTO at a successful fintech startup. In 2010 he launched PyXLL, an Excel Add-In with tens of thousands of users in a wide variety of industries, and more recently released the Java Excel Add-In “Jinx”. In a previous life he developed graphics engines for console games.
