Summary
Daniel Kolev is a Principal Java Developer with 11+ years building scalable, secure back-end systems and real-time monitoring solutions across enterprise and cloud environments. He combines deep Java/Spring expertise and microservices design with hands-on work in CI/CD (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure), Salesforce Apex/administration, and big data stacks like Kafka, Storm and Elasticsearch. His background includes application security and SDL practices at Cisco and others, and he brings a unique mix of offensive-security interest and practical engineering to hardening production services. With an academic foundation in AI (Master’s) and experience in forecasting, NLP and signal/audio processing, he often blends data science techniques into engineering problems. Based in Bulgaria, he has held senior technical roles at Fourth, Dell and EPAM, consistently delivering observability and automation for complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Artificial intelligence, Master’s Degree Artificial intelligence at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Bulgarian