Systems Programming Graduate (Glorified Vocational High School CS Diploma) & Engineering Enthusiast
Sofia, Bulgaria
SentIRX — Founded after winning 3rd place at the European Defense Hackathon (2024). We’re now building a synthetic‑data‑generation platform and advanced CV techniques alongside our mine‑detection & recognition system.
Accedia Internship — July 2024
Two‑week AI internship focusing on multimodal sentiment analysis of internet memes.
TUES Organising (Hackathon & Fest) — 2023-2024
Co‑organized my school’s annual hackathon (300+ participants) and fest (100+ projects), liaising with sponsors daily under the mentorship of Kirilka Angelova and Kalin Georgiev.
HackUPC — 3rd place, May 2025
Created TopRack Studio, an immersive web & VR tool for designing and validating data‑center layouts.
Part of the “False Positive” team.
Code of the Future 25 — 1st place, Feb 2025
Part of a team that built MEOWI, a platform to collect water‑infrastructure data, display interactive loss maps, analyze trends, and let users report supply issues.
Part of the “False Positive” team.
GRAID (Graduation Project) — 100% mark, 2025
Developed an on‑board depth‑vision obstacle‑avoidance system for drones (computer vision + graph algorithms) and defended it successfully.
European Defense Hackathon — 3rd place, 2024 (Munich)
Built a landmine detection & recognition system using computer vision, drones, and sensors; team now evolving the project under SentIRX.
TUES Fest (Beware) — 1st place, 2023
At our school’s science fair, Beware won first place before judges from Bulgaria’s ICT sector.
Part of the “False Positive” team.
HackTUES — 2nd place, 2023
Our team built Beware, a gamified platform where users “hack” into a simulated device to complete data‑gathering challenges.
Part of the “False Positive” team.
PARAi Incubator (Riskgraph) — 1st place, 2022
Proof‑of‑concept supply‑chain tool for electronic components: monitors prices/news and forecasts availability & cost over 3 months.
Part of the “False Positive” team.
TU Sofia Innovation Hub (Notewell) — 2021–2022
Built Notewell, a study‑aid app that semi‑automates creation of notes and quizzes using Google’s BART LLM.
HackTUES GG (ECOspace) — 5th place, 2021
In 8th grade I organised along with a few friends to create a hackathon team - False Positive to participate in the school's annual hackathon, there we spun up a Flask web app on‑the‑spot to organize volunteer conservation events, placing 5th.
Part of the “False Positive” team.