Martin Nikolov

In the Innovations Department of Ocado, I provided software engineering knowledge in the ML/Data Science field. Achievements: - Build cloud infrastructure for ML Research (auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters with spot instances with GPUs and TPUs) - Developed internal tools and services (automation of the ML pipeline and running ML experiments) - Dataset preparation, manipulating hundreds of GB of data (Big Query, Google Cloud Storage, S3 etc.) Interviewed by Google about my work: https://goo.gl/QTQKhv

As a Software Engineer in Meridian Capital Group I worked in the company’s core software team. Main accomplishments and responsibilities: - Second hire in the company with huge impact on the development process, software architecture and used technologies - Designed and developed complex projects from scratch and bringing them to production - Developed and maintained the company’s most important products - Involved in the hiring & interview processes & hired core team members

In Ocado Technology I worked on the Ocado Smart Platform (https://goo.gl/fgFr1X) - an E2E software solution for operating online retail businesses, including fully automated warehouses with fleets of thousands of robots picking orders. I developed full stack (Web UI, Backend, DB, CI Pipeline, Cloud Provisioning and Monitoring) software system, responsible for configuring the robotic grid and reliably delivering thousands of commands per second to robots in real-time, over proprietary wireless protocol.

As a Software Engineer in Trading212.com, I was part of the core backend team working on the company’s most important product - the Trading Platform. I was responsible for the development, performance, scalability and stability of the system. The domain of the system required it to provide lightning fast and reliable order execution, to deliver the latest quotes in real-time to clients from around the globe, and to support multiple frontends.