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g'day.
i've been making software for 35+ years, on several continents, as projects of all sizes and levels of impossibility. Seen many different terminals, languages, designs, projects, customers, teams, organizations and cultures, and have met even more different attitudes.
So i found that the more interesting and difficult part is.. the people, while the technicalities are somehow solvable. Software is just a limited, twisted way of communicating knowledge between people, through space and time - and it's people who cause anything. Making software is a game of cooperation, now vs future-and-past, exercise in correct thinking, with all the participants being translators - and Trust being the most important feature.
And i found i can successfully mediate between the extremes - western and eastern thinking, technical & applied, experts & newbies, gears & art, real & virtual.. i put passion in my work and do care for it. i do trust people.. and thus weigh them. i work With, not For. i fight For, not Against. i do Work, not Time. Some toys go at github.com/svilendobrev.
Reality.. is very complex. Complexity is tamed with structure. Structure means languages - specific for the notion, domain, product, project, task.. even people. i like making languages that talk patterns of problem at hand.. expressed in host language. And i push for attitudes that empower people. So one can go solving the real issues. i love idea-generating, nice software, mentoring, team and organization making, steep changes, persistence, cultural diversity, improvisation. i can help efficiently make effective software, and tune the culture to allow for it.
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, advisor, “playing-trainer”, leader, architect, CTO, hacker.. programmer.. Friend? Could be. More about me, software and life at www.svilendobrev.com.
An Impossible dream project? What about?
now in Varna, Bulgaria. Bulgarian and Australian citizenship
fluent Bulgarian, Russian, English
born 1970 Bulgarian, family+kids; non-smoker ; mountains, bicycle, e-foil and sea lover
the Team as live, self-tuning instrument for translating knowledge into software; organisational patterns, cultures and health ; leadership and empowerment; proximity + communication patterns, de-hierarchisation
mentoring, teaching, inside-trenches organisational analysis and coaching... and learning ; philosophy of software
knowledge and technology management, requirements engineering, audit + analisys - of code, workflows or organisation
methodologies, agile CrystalClear vs CMMi/formal process; outsourcing + distributed global development; mental gears, cultural differences, context-switching, attention to detail, selective stupidity
making languages; using general languages as carriers of much higher-level specific ones; generating code; self-interpreting objects; grammars, compilers, interpreters, virtual machines; interfaces, protocols, frameworks and aspects
usability engineering, use-cases; user experience, interaction, interfaces; perspectives - tech vs human, end-user vs organization; human-machine systems
testing as art; version, configuration and project management, life-cycles, estimation, negotiation, risk and resistance-points; documentation workflows, traceability, trackability; licensing
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
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, html/css 25y; perl make sh; many 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, STL; many more
platforms: linux, android, web, desktop, dos; apache; many compilers, assemblers, .. ; docker
paradigms: object-oriented, functional, event-, rule-, dependency-driven, markup, behavioral, ..
persistency: xtdb (bitemporal), couchdb, mongo, sql - sqlite postgresql ; rdf, sparql, key-value; corba
tools of the trade: vim, linux, vcs: bzr/git/hg/svn/cvs; e2e testing,selenium; Jira,redmine, wikis in general
my own python course (~90+ people in last 10 years), a coding style, methodology, UIs, python clone, tools..
www as runtime env - service vs library; API-design; search, accessibility, multi-linguality; digital signatures, smartcards
devOops.. or more. Get job done, be part of it - software, hardware, or psychology; fix the dripping tap, broken machine, drivers or paperwork; teach, hack, negotiate, find a way, fight for it.. It's all one jazz.. Engineering
reverse engineering; search, anonymity; protections; social nets, digital identity
reflecting, exchanging ideas, having opinions, Do-It-Yourself, repairing.. things
artistic design and layout; applying knowledge across fields; making toys and playing
caring about what i do. With extreme attention to detail – which assumes freedom + 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 has never been user of it.
Do not try to outsmart the user.. who might be your self.
If you make something usable by idiots, only idiots will use it.
Association is a great thing - trust your common intuitional sense.
Trust is the essence of software. Machines trust 100%, while people.. don't. How much trust or distrust can you handle?
Software is about people. Okay, mostly about (some) people somewhere in the chain.
Software is made of decisions (and so is life, but it's less obvious, many 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, doable - sellable - wanted - needed, rarely overlap. Finding the dream spot = ruining illusions.
Don't always believe yourself. Always believe in yourself.
There's no "i cannot" - there's only "i don't want". And, there's no "have to" - there is only "want to".
Search for (people-who-bring-) questions. They make life interesting. Not.. answers - whole industries and institutions exist just to produce such.
First rule of Leadership: it's all your fault.
Manager's choice: change People or.. Change people.
receivables scaleup, FinTech. Team of 8-12, remote, in-house node.js+mongo+vue.js event-sourcing micro-services. "No coding, just.. other 90%". Develop team, educate management, other depts, find devel and software bottlenecks, buy time+resources to fix. Streamline processes, reviews, CI/CD, UX studies. Be product owner - stop everybody-tells-tech-do-this-now. Represent software to clients - and investors. Even architect, reverse-engineer, code some! Then.. acquired. Hope? Lead a remake for huge volumes - durable execution, bitemporal data.. But no.. too much bureaucracy, even more politics.
no-coding the in-house js system, but quite some coding outside it; node ..+html side projects, and python for the remake.
Lessons - "Remote" does not help teaming.. And.. "Chief" may mean nothing.
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 single page app 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 software teams in Varna+Sofia (8 people), as capabilities and "health"; represent software perspective in complex projects; mentor and teach people from various backgrounds; push improvements in culture, methodology, technology; hands-on - deeply embedded or application software, assemblers to python ; tools for requirements engineering, chip-description and chip-testing ; functional safety.
Dutch nearshoring company. Python courses for 20+ people - beginners to advanced.. Noticed fast-growth pains.. so.. did a study, interviewing in trenches and above - on ways of work, culture, technology, relations, teaming, pains, funs.., and suggested some changes towards healthier company structure, agile patterns, attitudes, culture.
dozen new people, most straight from the uni... to become programmers.. and a real software Team.. in about 4 months. Impossible? Depends.. As long as proper mentality gets in, the rest is.. up to them. (update 2019: they are all seniors now)
Store data as-is, let it flow, react on changes. Focus on user, personal+usability. Centralizing is tool, not goal. 2ppl, 8mo. Friend did iphone, me- all else. Design, "http-rpc-with-memory"/replicate, back-end, android+web apps (17k py+12k java).
Idea: Making software is actually learning.. Didn't work, a chicken+egg - students want $$$, companies want ready teams.
social -media python-backend-integration framework (flask, nose, selenium). in place/team that opposes change.
redefine search and decision in human terms.. Tech lead+ philosophy, analyze, invent, code; mentor young entrepreneur
moodyTV: content-discovery of many metadata sources; shown IBC2010-Amsterdam. Apps: android thick on/off-line, web, qt. Personal channels/ suggestions, manual faceted shareable filters. (3ppl, 6mo, 8k python, 20k java); brightBird - movie search social service. Match/classify metadata, user patterns. (3ppl, 5mo; 10k python/django, sql, sparql)
notionery: wild idea- a garden to grow your personal notions - remember, learn, express yourself, in your own terms - and translate to and from all else, incl. past versions. Few months of concept digging.. Semantical web5.. Too far fetched
UI-engine in python, embedded, linux/gentoo, slow media-player device; very entangled work / repository structure.. A bit extreme independence - Viva la liberte! - yeah, but without communication, software ain't edible..
my site (static html php css javascript python/generation, shared apache, mod_rewrite)
desktop client app for customs.bg B2B document-flow. (7k python, 4mo, soap, XML-signing, smartcards, gtk/win)
HOR - enterprise human resources+payroll, 90k python, sql, wxpython; 8ppl 2years; replacing legacy, represent ever-changing, entangled legislation+relations, max flexibility and expressive power. Notions like pay-flows+values; languages for them, multilingual bi-temporal data and code. Leading.. agile, architecture, code, requirements, mentor, manage, invent..
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; about 6 months onsite in Singapore, 2 in Germany. CORBA, realtime payments. Being team leader+manager, core dev, architect, all relations - to WN-Konstanz, WN-Singapore, STC: Difficult cultural mix.. like Requirements gathering via 3 hops who don't talk to each-other. Future-proof, refactor, wrap, generate code+docs.. Most difficult but rewarding project.. Hey, 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
a drawing framework - 2D hierarchy, MVC, polygon-processing, C++,python; visualise GIS map-data from arcSDE
organisational patterns - success in changing company culture - both as technology and people communication
new 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, autogenerate documentation
tasting another language-culture-continent-society
learning about software made industrially - "pipelines"+ CMM4, and teaching about software made efficiently
made personalizable accounting engine, in human terms+documents, user languages for reports, templates, operations, access-control. wave-calc. 70k C++ btrieve novell, 3 ppl. Sometimes reworking human-workflows. Still used.
prototypes of statewide medical record system, doctor's workplace. “obj-oriented” structural documentation flow
accounting software - rule-based correctness, ledger conversion, account-scheme on-the-fly-translation, automat ion
LAN maintenance - PCs, novell/dos/win/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, trajectories.. physics; trainer workplace; C++, assembler, 3ppl
large accurate digital maps: make, compress, view, radar/GPS; i386/penpad
Danube river map+radar – GUI+map technology; prototype for Gabchikovo channel navigation
DTP /preprint software+fonts - reverse-engineer, customize, use many systems, make fonts+tools.. so all works in cyrillic
with 2 schoolmates: accounting with replication over modems, Clipper, C, i86 asm
set-based unification and Prolog interpreter - thesis, 500 Loc prolog ; Text editor in C/asm (PC i86)
statistical trends graphical analyzer-visualizer ; simple run-len gth 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
curated collection of audio records of tales, songs, theaters from LPs, CDs, radio.. and all the machinery behind it - from recording and comparing to publishing.. some old frozen version at http://gramofonche.chitanka.info .. Still not abandoned
making and hosting a community forum and supporting Sladka voda alternative school
do-it-yourself.. and repair - software, hardware, house, cars, toys, .. anything - www.svilendobrev.com/napravisam
teaching reverse-engineering/analysis – a few essays
e-mail: az()svilendobrev _ com
my site: www.svilendobrev.com
work, software, and me: svilendobrev.com/rabota
code, toys and projects: 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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