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g'day.
i've been making software for.. long time, around the world, as projects of all sizes and levels of impossibility. Seen many different terminals, languages, designs, projects, customers, teams, organizations and cultures, and attitudes.
So i found that.. the interesting and difficult part is the people. Technicalities are solvable. Software is just a limited, twisted way of communicating knowledge between people, through space and time. It is people who cause anything. Making software is a game of cooperation, exercise in correct thinking, all participants are translators, and Trust is most important thing.
Seems i like to mediate the extremes - western or eastern, experts+newbies, gears+art, real+virtual. i put passion in my work and do care for it. i trust people.. and thus weigh them. i work With, not For. i fight For, not Against. i do Work, not Time. i like ideating, improvisation, mentoring, team- or organization- building, steep changes, persistence, diversity. To efficiently make effective software, i push for attitudes that empower people, tuning the culture to allow it.
Reality.. is very complex. Complexity is tamed with structure. Structure means languages - specific for the notion, domain, product, project, task, people. So one can dive in the real issues.
i make (software) projects from ideas, people and software. Be it possible or not, regardless what has to change - software, organization, people, or.. me. As life is change is life.
So.. Hands-on software mentor, “playing-trainer”, leader, architect, CTO, analyst, hacker.. programmer.. Friend? Possible. More about me, software and life at www.svilendobrev.com.
An Impossible dream project? What about?
now in Varna, Bulgaria. born 1970 Bulgarian, +Australian citizen
fluent Bulgarian, Russian, English ; with family+kids; non-smoker; mountains, bicycle, e-foil, sea lover
the Team as alive, self-tuning instrument for translating knowledge into software; organisational patterns, cultures and health ; leadership and empowerment; proximity and communication patterns, de-hierarchisation
mentoring, teaching, learning, inside-trenches organisational analysis and coaching ; philosophy of software
requirements engineering, knowledge and technology management, audit and analysis of code/ workflows/ organisation
methodology, agile vs CMMi process; global teamwork; cultural differences; mental gears/contexts, selective stupidity
usability engineering, use-cases; user experience/ interaction/ interfaces; human-machine systems and perspectives
testing as art; version and configuration management; documentation workflows, traceability, trackability; licensing
project management, life-cycles, estimation, negotiation, risk and resistance-points, strategy mapping
business analysis in many domains – software itself, media, content/metadata, finance/accounting/banking, HR, chips-design, bureaucracy, betting, CAD/CAM, mechanics, physics, hardware, maps, graphics, audio, pre-print, simulation
making languages; using general languages as carriers of higher-level specific ones; generating code; self-interpreting objects; grammars, compilers, interpreters, virtual machines; protocols, frameworks and aspects
modeling, architecture, flows - data, code, events, time; analysis; optimisation; efficient-effective; persistency, databases, bitemporal data+code, durable execution, messaging, semantic relations; sync/async; client-server/ standalone/ distributed
languages: python 25y, C/C++ 25y, javascript 7y, java 3y, graphql 3y, html/css 25y; perl make sh; many more.. from prolog to erlang/clojure to various assemblers and machine languages
toolkits/frameworks: django flask fastapi react nodejs express ; qt wx gtk kiwi; sqlalchemy; many more
platforms: linux, android, web, desktop, dos; apache; many compilers, assemblers.. ; docker
paradigms: object-oriented, functional, event-, rule-, dependency- driven, markup, behavioral, ..
persistency: SQL- sqlite postgresql, xtdb/ bitemporal, couchdb, mongo; rdf/ sparql, key-value; API-design, graphql/ rest/ ..
tools of the trade: vim, linux, vcs: bzr/git/hg/svn/cvs; e2e testing, selenium; Jira, wikis in general
my own python crash course (~90+ people in last 10 years), and many DIY tools - github.com/svilendobrev
www as runtime env ; (micro)service vs library; search, accessibility, multi-linguality; digital signatures, smartcards
devOoops.. or more. Get job done - software, hardware, or psychology; fix the dripping tap, broken chair, drivers or paperwork; hack, negotiate, find a way, fight for it.. It's all one jazz.. Engineering
reverse engineering; search, anonymity; protections; social nets, digital identity; Do-It-Yourself, repairing.. stuff
reflecting, exchanging ideas and opinions; artistic design; applying knowledge across fields; making toys and playing
caring about what i do. With extreme attention to detail – which assumes freedom and no noise... and nothing fake..
Find a friend to be your senses.
With time, places change people. Other way happens noticeably only while coming in - or switching on.
Software is a (twisted) way of communication. Sometimes to yourself from Tuesday.
Languages are your tools. Make them if no suitable ones.
One can't make decent tool/thing if never has been user of it.
If you make something usable by idiots, only idiots will use it. Do not try to outsmart the user.. who might be you.
Software is about people. Association is a great thing - follow your common intuitional sense.
Trust is the essence of software. Machines trust 100%, but people.. don't. How much trust or distrust can you handle?
Software is made of decisions (and so is life, but most decisions are materialized and don't look as such).
www is global village, anyone at near-zero distance.. but never zero. And one may need that warm touch - or good kick.
In making software, the doable - sellable - wanted - needed, rarely overlap. Finding the dream spot may ruin illusions.
First rule of Leadership: it's all your fault.
Manager's choice: change People or.. Change people.
Don't always believe yourself. But always believe in yourself.
There's no "cannot" - only "do not want". And, there's no "have to" - only "want to".
Search for (people-who-bring) questions . They make life interesting. Not answers - many industries+institutions do that.
receivables fintech scaleup. Team 10 remote; in-house node.js+mongo+vue ~250K js, event-sourcing DDD microservices. "No coding, just other 90%". Develop and mentor team, educate management and other depts. Find dev and system bottlenecks, "buy" time+resources to fix. Streamline dev processes, code reviews, releasing-CI/CD, UX studies; be product owner - stop "everybody-tells-tech-do-this-now", sort Jira, gitlab. Talk software to clients. Pitch tech to investors.. Acquired
coding outside main system: extract+visualize js event-flow-maps, python ; few "paypage" projects, node.js+mongo
after acquiring, lead a remake for huge volumes - durable execution /temporal.io, bitemporal data /xtdb, python.
small startup with friends. About dutch dental-insurance B2B workflows, then american truck-maintenance housekeeping. Doing most hats.. machinery, product road-maps, frontend and UX, methodology, workflows, team of 3-7. Max efficiency-per-teammate.. python, django, graphql-instead-of-drf, React+Blueprint SPA via browser-editor generative framework. Mentoring 2 younger colleagues into better persons. (~ 90k python + 90k javascript and up)
branch of german fab-less chipmaker. Caring for 2 software teams (8 ppl); represent software side in complex projects; mentor people of various backgrounds; push improvements in culture, methodology, technology; hands-on - embedded or applications, assemblers to python; tools for requirements engineering, chip-description and testing; watch functional safety.
python courses for 20+ people, beginners to advanced. Noticed fast-growth pains.. did a study, interviewing trenches and up, on ways of work, culture, tech, relations, pains.. and suggested changes for healthier structure, process, attitudes, culture.
dozen new people, most straight from the uni... to become programmers.. and a real software Team.. in about 4 months. Succeeded. As long as proper mentality gets in, the rest is.. persistence. (update 2019: they are all seniors now)
distributed personal places+chat - couchdb as messaging. Store data as-is, let it flow, react on changes. Focus on user. A friend did iphone, i did all else: http-rpc-with-memory/replication, back-end, android+web apps (17k py+12k java).
social -media python-backend-integration framework (flask, nose, selenium).
moodyTV: content-discovery of metadata, personal channels/filters; android,web,qt apps (3ppl 6mo; 8k python, 20k java)
brightBird: movie-search social service. Match/classify metadata, user patterns. (3ppl 5mo; 10k python, sql, sparql)
notionery: a garden of your personal notions - remember, learn, express, in own terms, translate to/from all else incl. past.
media-player UI-engine , python in slow embedded linux; independence- but without communication, software ain't edible
HOR - enterprise HR+payroll, 90k python sql wxpython; 8ppl 2years; replace legacy, represent ever-changing, entangled legislation+relations. Notions+languages for pay-flows+values; multilingual bi-temporal data and code,.. Leading it all
STC - Singapore Turf Club's betting terminals+kiosks renovation - global outsourcing effort; 2 end-user-apps: 130k C++, 15k python, 2k java, 6ppl, 2+years; ~6 months in Singapore, 2 in Germany. CORBA, realtime payments. Team leader, core dev, architect, relations to WN-Konstanz, WN-Singapore, STC. Difficult cultural mix.. 3 hops who didn't talk to each-other. Most difficult but rewarding project. My team survived crossing 4 cultures, and "end-users said they like your software"!
topologic al parametric modeling language + control of mechanical technology - in CAM/CAE plant system; python
graphical 2D backend API from python into C++; fix + wrap equation-solver cassowarypy
geophysical maps drawing framework - 2D MVC hierarchy, polygon-processing, C++, python; import from arcSDE
apply organisational patterns - success in changing company culture - both as technology and people communication
compiler for analog/mixed-signal Verilog-A/AMS, merge and maintain legacy compilers; testing and build-automation; C/C++, sh,perl,make, lex/yacc,pccts; solaris hp linux; full waterfall, requirements tracing, generated documentation
tasting another language-culture-continent-society - multi-cultural environment in huge global corp...
learning about software made industrially, "pipelines" in CMM4, and teaching about software made efficiently
accounting engine, user terms and languages for reports/ operations, wave-calc. 70k C++ btrieve, 3 ppl. Still used ~2022
LAN maintenance ; rule-based ledger correctness/conversion, on-the-fly-translation, novell/dos/os2, Clipper, C/assembler
Missile-launcher simulators - 3D real-time animated simulation of combat for soldier training - real weapon, overhead projecting on huge screen, modeling airplanes, vehicles, trajectory physics; trainer workplace; C++/asm, 3ppl sw/ 8ppl all
Danube river map+radar /GPS - GUI+map technology; large accurate maps: make, compress, view; i386/penpad, C++/asm
books, papers, cards; enhancing DTP/preprint software - reverse-engineer, patch, make fonts+tools - for cyrillic
with 2 schoolmates: accounting with replication over modems, Clipper, C, asm
my site (static html php css javascript python/generation, shared apache, mod_rewrite)
2012: idea: as making software is learning: software house-school, learn by doing real projects. Didn't work, chicken+egg
2008: desktop client app for customs.bg B2B document-flow (7k python, 4mo, soap, XML-signing, smartcards, gtk/win)
curated collection of audio records of tales, songs, theaters from LPs, CDs, radio.. and the machinery behind - record/ cut/ compare/ publish.. some old frozen version at http://gramofonche.chitanka.info
~2000: teaching reverse-engineering and analysis - several essays
university : set-based unification and Prolog interpreter - thesis, 500Loc prolog ; Text editor in C/asm (PC i86)
school : statistical trends graphical analyzer-visualizer ; simple run-length graphics-compression lib (M6502 Basic + asm)
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science
advancing course: 5 years taken in 4, twice more disciplines - all excellent
"advancing education" class of 4 students, 7 years taken in 4, gold medal
e-mail: az()svilendobrev _ com -- my site: www.svilendobrev.com -- work and me: svilendobrev.com/rabota
some code: github.com/svilendobrev ; svilendobrev.com/rabota/mysoft.html
cv-resume-biography: svilendobrev.com/rabota/cv - printable-pdf -- linkedin.com/in/svilendobrev
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