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Yordan Ganev | Software Engineer

[email protected] +010101010101 linkedin.com/in/yordan-ganev/ github.com/yordan-g

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Fullstack Engineer with 5+ years of experience developing web applications, with a strong backend focus and hands-on experience in CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure, and web frontend.

EXPERIENCE

Fullstack Engineer @ OVO Energy via TechPods

OVO Energy is one of the UK's leading retail energy suppliers, pioneering smart-home technologies. There, I develop colleague-facing applications that enable on-site teams to install smart meters.

  • Developed backend microservices in Kotlin/Quarkus - both serverless Lambdas and long-running.
  • Contributed to the web app using React and TypeScript and the Android mobile app using Flutter.
  • Maintained our AWS infrastructure via Terraform - provisioning ECS clusters, API Gateway endpoints, Lambda functions, RDS databases, S3 buckets, Cognito authentication.
  • Built automated data pipelines to stream service events into BigQuery for reporting.
  • Maintained our monitoring in Grafana self-hosted service.
Junior Backend Engineer @ OVO Energy via TechPods
  • Contributed to core microservices built with Kotlin/Quarkus and PostgreSQL.
  • Built HTTP to SOAP adapter layer, enabling seamless integration with legacy SOAP web services.
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for frontend and backend applications using CircleCI and GitHub Actions.
Java Engineer Trainee @ Telerik Academy May 2020 – Dec 2020

Intensive bootcamp in software fundamentals and web development with Java. Covered OOP, DSA, relational databases and built a full-stack app with Java, Spring, MariaDB, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Co-Founder @ The Perfect Present Ltd Nov 2016 – Nov 2018

B2C e-commerce store for designing and producing personalized laser-cut gifts. As a team, we reached 2,500+ unit sales annually and co-created the flagship product, brand identity, and visual design.

EDUCATION

M.Sc. in Architecture @ UACEG, Sofia
Mathematics and IT @ High School of Maths and Sciences, Shumen

SKILLS

Primary focus: Kotlin/Quarkus, TypeScript, React, Svelte, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CircleCI.
Previous experience: Java/Spring, Apache Kafka, Flutter, GCP, Docker Swarm, Grafana.

PERSONAL PROJECTS