
Managing Partner at Consulting and Information Technology Agency (CITA)
Bulgaria

Managing Partner at Consulting and Information Technology Agency (CITA)
Bulgaria
Svetlin Nakov is Director of training and consulting activities in the National Academy for Software Development (NASD) and Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD). He has solid professional experience (10+ years) as software developer and consultant, especially in Java, Java EE, C#, .NET Framework, databases, Oracle, SQL Server, Web development, ASP.NET, JSP/Servlets, GWT, software engineering and project management. Svetlin has been technical leader of number of software projects with various technologies and platforms. He is a speaker in hundreds of technical events, author of hundreds of articles and few books about Java, .NET and security.
Svetlin is also lecturer in cutting edge software technologies in Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", where he teaches courses in Computer Algorithms, Internet Programming with Java, Programming for the .NET Platform, Network Security, Java Web Applications Development and High-Quality Programming Code Construction.
As a student Svetlin is winner in tens of National programming contests and has 4 medals from International Olympiads in Informatics. In 2004 he is awarded by the Bulgarian President with the prestigious award "John Atanassoff" for his contribution for the development of the information technologies and the information society.
His resume is available from: http://www.nakov.com/about/
.NET, Java, Java EE, software engineering, Oracle, SQL Server
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
My job at the Consulting and Information Technologies Agency (CITA) is to organize, manage, develop, deliver and support large IT projects for different industries. As a consulting company we provide highly qualified IT consultants for short term projects and we take part in complex IT projects at the customer site. We also support organizations in defining their IT needs and implementing IT projects to help develop their business.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Managing software projects, organizing training courses, providing consulting services to various customers, managing employees, take part in company management.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2004 — Present (5 years 8 months)
Orginizes lectures, seminars, trainings and contests and other events for the software engineering community. Runs professional user groups for developers. Promotes best practices in software engineering and new emerging technologies.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2000 — June 2007 (6 years 9 months)
Lecturer in computer science and cutting edge software technologies - .NET Framework, C#, Java, Internet technologies, Web development, computer algorithms, programming code quality, network security.
(Computer Software industry)
1999 — 2007 (8 years )
Conduct research in computational linguistics and natural language processing.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Provides consulting information technology, software engineering and information security.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Developed .NET Framework training course, lectures, demonstrations, exercises, and textbooks for teaching students in the Bulgarian universities.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2003 — January 2004 (7 months)
Technical consultant for Borland development tools - JBuilder, Delphi, Together, Interbase, C#Builder, etc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2002 — June 2003 (7 months)
Research and development job concerning design and implementation of complex software projects with Java and Oracle. Consulting customers for technology related issues.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2002 — November 2002 (9 months)
Involved in whole the development lifecycle for software projects - requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance, management.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 9 months)
Design and implementation of various outsourcing software projects. Working as team member in the development of financial software, online gaming sites, and process centric workflow systems.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1999 — April 2000 (10 months)
Implementation of Oracle based information systems and IT solutions.
MSc. , Distributed Systems and Mobile Technologies , 2003 — 2005
Graduated with excellent results
BSc. , Computer Science , 1999 — 2003
Working as software engineer at full time during whole the studying in the University, started a year before admission.
.NET Framework, Java and Java EE technologies, Internet and Web technologies, project management, Network security, Artifical intelligence and computer linguistics, Relational databases, XML technologies, Object-oriented programming and modelling, Business processes, Enterpreneurship
Bulgarian Association of Software Developers,
Bulgarian Java User Group,
SofiaDev .NET User Group,
Association for Information Security,
Bulgarian Oracle User Group
Bulgarian President's award "John Atanassoff", 2004
National Scholarship "John Atanassoff" for Computer Science Research, Evrika Foundation, 2003
Bronze Medal, XI International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI99), Turkey, 1999
Bronze Medal, X International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI98), Portugal, 1998
Bronze Medal, VII Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (BOI99), Greece, 1999
Bronze Medal, IV Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (BOI96), Cyprus, 1996
National Diploma for High Achievements in Computer Science, Bulgaria, 1999
1st prize, National Student's Programming Contest, Bulgaria, 2001
1st prize, National Student's Programming Contest, Bulgaria, 2000
1st prize and Admission in University without Exam, National Olympiad in Informatics, Bulgaria, 1998
3rd prize and Admission in University without Exam, National Olympiad in Informatics, Bulgaria, 1999
Winner in over 30 other national computer programming contests, 1994-2001