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Petar T. Tahchiev Geo Milev Housing Estate, Block 255, apt. 30, Soﬁa 1113, GSM: (+359) 885 740 222, e-mail: [email protected],

Objective A full-time(part-time) software development position related with e-commerce and/or devel- oping web-based applications(JSP, Servlets, Struts, Spring . . . ), etc. I would be interested in hearing from you if you found my abilities to be a potential ﬁt.

Personal Date of birth: 12 Jul 1984 Information Marital Status: Single Cityzenship: Bulgarian Driver License: Category B

Experience Phamola Ltd. Senior Hybris Developer Soﬁa, Bulgaria Jun 2009 - present Co-founder, and senior hybris developer at Phamola Ltd. Phamola is a startup company focused on the european e-commerce market. My responsibilities included design, implementation, testing and maintenance of client’s Hybris projects.

Apache Software Foundation (ASF Apache Maven developer Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jan 2009 - present Part of the Maven development team. Responsible for design, implementation, testing and maintanace of the maven-assembly-plugin.

Unic B.V Senior Hybris Architect Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dec 2008 - Jun 2010 Design, implementation, testing and maintanance of internet e-commerce applications. Imple- mentation with Hybris PIM system, J2EE software and open-source-tools (Apache Ant, JUnit, Apache Tomcat, Apache MyFaces, Spring MVC, . . . ).

Manning Publications Author Soﬁa, Bulgaria Jun 2008 - Jun 2010 Author of the ”JUnit in Action, second edition” book. The book deals with the unit testing library, as well as it’s extensions. Included are unit, integration and functional testing of every layer of a sample application.

Hewlett Packard Global Delivery J2EE Techical Consultant Service Soﬁa, Bulgaria - Dusseldorf, Germany Oct 2007 - Dec 2008 Part of the EMEA C&I development team. Responsibilities especially for the German clients of the company. Projects I have been involved so far: • VDMS - Vodafone Device Management System. Responsible for development, testing, documenting and customer deployment of the project. • EMEA Employee of the month - selected for employee of the month in EMEA regional newsletter, due to the numerous open-source contributions.

Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG) Leader of the Bulgarian Java User Group Sofia, Bulgaria Jan 2007 - present Webmaster, administrator, moderator, creator, content-editor . . . Also responsible for organi- zational stuff, like engaging place for the meeting, editorial stuff on the presentations, and selecting speakers for the event.

Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Jakarta PMC Soﬁa, Bulgaria Feb 2008 - present Jakarta PMC at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Jakarta Cactus Lead Developer Soﬁa, Bulgaria March 2007 - present Responsible for the migration of the Jakarta Cactus Build System from Apache Ant to Apache Maven, as well as the Maven2 Cactus plugin. Lead-developer of the Jakarta Cactus Project, release manager, PMC, and also responsible for moderating the Jakarta Cactus mailing list.

Mobiltel Bulgaria Ltd., a part of Enterprise Application Integration Engineer Telecom Austria Group Soﬁa, Bulgaria Jan 2007 - Oct 2007 Developement of web-services and telecommunication solutions (VOIP, SIP, . . . ), as well as integrating them using Tibco Businessworks.

Soﬁa University, ”Saint Kliment Part-time Lecturer Ohridski” Soﬁa, Bulgaria Sep 2005 - Jul 2007 Part-time assistent of some of the fundamental mathematical and computer courses at the Alma Mater (see the Teaching Experience section).

Bianor Services Ltd. Junior Software Engineer Soﬁa, Bulgaria Jul 2005 - Jan 2007 Streamlined report generation and development of web based aplications using Java, JSP, Struts, Hibernate and XML. Project automation using Ant and Maven(1x, 2x).

Teaching Algebraic structures for computer scientists, Feb 2007 - Jul 2007 Experience Position: Part-time assistent at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the ”Soﬁa University”.

Mathematical Analisys for Physicians, Oct 2006 - Jan 2007 Position: Part-time assistent at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the ”Soﬁa University”.

Liniar Algebra for Informatitions, Oct 2006 - Jan 2007 Position: Part-time assistent at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the ”Soﬁa University”.

Introduction to Java Programming, Oct 2005 - Feb 2006 Lead an introductory course to ﬁrst year students at Soﬁa University, Applied Mathematics.

Education Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Soﬁa University, Oct 2006 - ongoing. Master of Dynamical Systems and Diﬀerential Geometry, under the guidance of prof. Emil Horozov

Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Soﬁa University, Sep 2003 - Sep 2006. Bachelor of Mathematics, approximate GPA - 5.70. Gratuated in three instead of four years. Covered fundamental courses both in Mathematics and Computer Sciences, such as Data Struc- tures in Programming, Internet Programming in Java.

Vasil Levski High School, Karlovo, 1998 - 2003. Main secondary education

English Language School Plovdiv, 1998 - 2003. Graduated extramurally to master English language.

MySQL course, Soﬁa University, 2004. Attends a one-month course in MySQL lead by a MySQL developer.

C course, Bulgarian Academy of Science, 2005. Attends a course in C organized by Bulgarian Academy of Science.

Achievements ”St. Kliment Ohridski Foundation” award winner - award from the Rector of the Bulgarian Alma Mater for the best student in master degree education.

Evrika Foundation Award Winner for 2006 given for extreme achievements in the ﬁeld of Mathematics, named in the eminent Bulgarian mathematician akad. Nikola Obreshkov. Evrika Foundation Award Winner for 2005 given for extreme achievements in the ﬁeld of Mathematics, named on the eminent Bulgarian mathematician akad. Nikola Obreshkov.

Participation in the Bulgarian National Student Olympiad in Mathematics, Yambol, 2004.

Presentations & Lecturer on the 2008 ApacheCON conference in New Orleans, Louisiana - ”Dependency man- Lectures agement with Apache Ivy”.

Lecturer on the 2008 CommunityONE conference in San Francisco - ”Java User Groups - Think Globally, Act Locally”.

A fast-feather track on the 2008 ApacheCON conference in Amsterdam - ”In-container testing strategies with Cactus 1.8.0”.

Lecturer on 2007 ApacheCON conference in Atlanta, with a lecture based on Jakarta Cactus. (The presentation can be found here: http://java-bg.net/svn/presentation/)

Lecturer on 2007 OpenFest conference in Soﬁa, with a lecture based on Jakarta Cactus. (The presentation can be found here: http://java-bg.net/svn/presentation/)

Lecturer on 2006 OpenFest conference with a lecture based on Subversion version control system. (The source of the lecture could be found here http://vania.sourceforge.net)

Lecturer on the 2006 WEBTech conference with a lecture based on the WebDAV extension of the HTTP protocol. (The source of the lecture could be found here http://ralitsa.sourceforge.net)

Lecturer on 2005 OpenFest conference with a lecture based on the optimization of the build proccess using Apache Ant 1.6.5 (the lecture could be found here http://emaria.sourceforge.net)

Programming C/C++ - basic knowledge. Languages Python - basic knowledge of the language and libraries. Ruby - basic knowledge of the language. PHP - very good knowledge of the language. Java - excellent knowledge language and libraries.

Web HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XML(XSLT, XPath, . . . ) Technologies

CMS CMSMadeSimple, OpenCMS, Joomla!, AtLeap

Java Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) - platform-independent API for database access from Techonologies Java. Java Swing and AWT - library for building graphical user interfaces. Java Mail - API for creating email and messaging applications. Java Threads - Provide API for running simultaneous tasks. Java Sockets - Provide API for TCP/IP communications. Java Applets - Java applications emebeded in html pages. Java Servlets and JSP - Used to create dynamic web pages. Apache Struts Framework - An MVC framework used in building dynamic Web-contents. Apache Axis - opensource implementation of the SOAP protocol. Apache Velocity - An open-source template engine for Java. JMS - Java Messaging Service.

Development HTTPD Server - Apache Web Server. Basic abilities in administration. Tools JBoss - EJB Container and enterprise application server. Basic abilities in administration. Apache Tomcat - JSP and Servlet Container. Advanced knowledge in using and deploying. Hibernate - An object-oriented relational mapping database. Junit framework - unit testing Java library. Jakarta Cactus - An open-source in-container testing framework. Concurrent Version System (CVS) - version control system. Subversion (SVN) - version control system. JasperReports - An open-source library for generating reports and tables.

Integration Tools Tibco BusinessWorks - Enterprise software for SOA and BPM integration.

Build tools Apache Ant - build tool implemented in Java. Apache Maven - build tool implemented in Java. CruiseControl - a framework for a continuous build process.

Operating Linux - Experience in SUSE, RedHat, Fedora Core, Knoppix, Tilix distributions. Systems Unix - Experience with FreeBSD. Windows family - Windows NT/XP/ME/2000. VMWare - Windows like environment for Linux. Cygwin - Linux like environment for Windows.

Others Oracle - an enterprise database system. MySQL - an open-source database system. PostgreSQL - an enterprise database system. LATEX - Computer Topography Language used to create high-quality electronic documents.

Other Languages Bulgarian - mother tongue English - ﬂuent Russian - only reading skills. German - basic

Personal Interests Mathematical Diﬀerential Geometry, Manifolds, Topology, Dynamical Systems, Diﬀerential Equations, Hilbert’s Sixteenth Problem Informatical Sockets and threads, algorithm optimization, and automation of the build process. Also HTTP protocol and its extensions, mainly WebDAV.

Projects I am Apache Maven - supporting the community through the mail-lists, as well as contributing involved in: patches. http://maven.apache.org Apache Ant - supporting the community through the mail-lists, as well as contributing patches. http://ant.apache.org Apache Jakarta - PMC board member. http://jakarta.apache.org/ Jakarta Cactus - lead developer, release manager, PMC board member. http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus Codehaus Cargo - supporting the community through the mail-lists, as well as contributing patches. http://cargo.codehaus.org Blandware AtLeap - Java-based CMS. I am involved as a contributor. http://atleap.dev.java.net/ Emaria - a project tracking tool. One of the developers. http://emaria.sourceforge.net Ralitsa - a host for WebDAV related texts and documents. One of the developers. http://ralitsa.sourceforge.net Publications • ”Start Using Ant Today: First Steps in The Build Proccess Automation”(in bulgarian) • ”Introduction to Maven2”(in bulgarian)