George Sotirov

• Led a cross-functional scrum team in building and maintaining services related to risk scoring, collateral management, and credit product logic.

• Drove the implementation of Kafka Streams pipelines for real-time processing of transaction and user data.

• Improved the resilience and scalability of services deployed in Kubernetes, supporting rapid product growth and increasing system uptime.

• Gained deep experience working with crypto-native products, including lending mechanisms, wallet services, and on-platform exchange logic.

• Actively integrated AI tools across development workflows—for code generation, documentation, testing, and architectural analysis—streamlining delivery and boosting team productivity.

Technologies: Java 21, Spring Boot 3, Kubernetes, Kafka Streams, MongoDB, CockroachDB, crypto APIs, AI-assisted development tools

• Lead of a full scrum team developing functionalities for the firm's risk and compliance department

• Lead development of new features – both backend and frontend

• Mentor junior colleagues

• Skills gained:

• Making architecture decisions

• Spring microservices development.

• Spring Boot 3 with Java 17.

• Extensive Angular 12 and JavaScript knowledge gained

• Apache Kafka

• Amazon Web Services

• Work with clients to identify their business needs and goals.

• Assemble software development teams with the correct technical skill to meet the clients' demands.

• Assure successful product delivery.

• Skills gained:

• Fundamentally improved communication and time management skills.

• Learned how to successfully manage several software development teams.

• Business analysis skills.