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With over a decade of experience in the IT industry, I've contributed to and led initiatives across every stage of the software development lifecycle - from early-stage product design to enterprise-scale delivery. My career spans both hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, including founding and growing a successful technology company, scaling teams, and driving complex projects for large organizations. I'm passionate about solving real business problems through technology - focusing on outcomes that deliver measurable value rather than just outputs. I thrive in challenging environments where I can blend technical depth with strategic thinking to build scalable solutions, empower teams, and turn ideas into impactful products.…With over a decade of experience in the IT industry, I've contributed to and led initiatives across every stage of the software development lifecycle - from early-stage product design to enterprise-scale delivery. My career spans both hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, including founding and growing a successful technology company, scaling teams, and driving complex projects for large organizations. I'm passionate about solving real business problems through technology - focusing on outcomes that deliver measurable value rather than just outputs. I thrive in challenging environments where I can blend technical depth with strategic thinking to build scalable solutions, empower teams, and turn ideas into impactful products.

Emil Kostadinov

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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With over a decade of experience in the IT industry, I've contributed to and led initiatives across every stage of the software development lifecycle - from early-stage product design to enterprise-scale delivery. My career spans both hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, including founding and growing a successful technology company, scaling teams, and driving complex projects for large organizations. I'm passionate about solving real business problems through technology - focusing on outcomes that deliver measurable value rather than just outputs. I thrive in challenging environments where I can blend technical depth with strategic thinking to build scalable solutions, empower teams, and turn ideas into impactful products.…With over a decade of experience in the IT industry, I've contributed to and led initiatives across every stage of the software development lifecycle - from early-stage product design to enterprise-scale delivery. My career spans both hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, including founding and growing a successful technology company, scaling teams, and driving complex projects for large organizations. I'm passionate about solving real business problems through technology - focusing on outcomes that deliver measurable value rather than just outputs. I thrive in challenging environments where I can blend technical depth with strategic thinking to build scalable solutions, empower teams, and turn ideas into impactful products.

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With over a decade of experience in the IT industry, I’ve contributed to and led initiatives across every stage of the software development lifecycle - from early-stage product design to enterprise-scale delivery. My career spans both hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, including founding and growing a successful technology company, scaling teams, and driving complex projects for large organizations.

I’m passionate about solving real business problems through technology - focusing on outcomes that deliver measurable value rather than just outputs. I thrive in challenging environments where I can blend technical depth with strategic thinking to build scalable solutions, empower teams, and turn ideas into impactful products.

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Work Experience

Platform Lead Software Engineer, Data Streaming at Nike

September 1, 2025 - September 1, 2025

- Led development of next-generation enterprise micro frontend apps for Kafka control plane using React, Spring Boot, and AWS. - Drove lean development practices with product analytics (Pendo) cutting ~25% of planned functionalities. Scaled engineering teams across diverse product areas, improving productivity and quality. Translated client interviews and gap analyses into platform features, shifting effort from client work to the platform team. Saved ~1,000 Splunk licenses and 3 months of work by building an OAuth-enabled NGINX WebSocket proxy UI to SignalFlow. Analyzed data needs to engineer advanced Splunk queries to speed up user support by 30%. As engineering owner of a multi-region AWS-based Kafka control plane, achieved 0 min RPO and 30 min RTO with 100% success. Built a JSON Path compiler compatible with Confluent Kafka Connect Filter to validate messages in the browser.

Co-founder & CTO at ParcelHive

March 1, 2022 - March 1, 2022

- Directed the smart locker network platform from concept to operation, with high availability, scalability, GDPR and PCI-DSS compliance. - Translated company strategy into OKRs and KPIs for engineers, aligning the team with the vision and driving business outcomes daily. - Steered cross-functional efforts to prepare tender submissions, establishing strong partnerships with vendors and service providers. - Led full lifecycle delivery of smart locker projects for Burger King, Jaguar & Land Rover, Costa Coffee, and DPD, from identifying system requirements and partner dependencies to hardware and software implementation, testing, and monitoring. - Applied TOGAF ADM to redesign systems during COVID-19, aligning architecture with available market talent using React for UIs and Qt for core components, reducing project delivery timelines by ~90% and driving business growth. - Built a Yocto IoT Linux distribution with Over-the-air updates and MicroK8s, allowing continuous delivery and third-party software deployment on existing devices, achieving significant cost savings in operations, training, and testing.

Co-founder & CTO at ParcelHive

March 1, 2020 - March 1, 2022

• Directed the smart locker network platform from concept to operation, with high availability, scalability, GDPR and PCI-DSS compliance. • Translated company strategy into OKRs and KPIs for engineers, aligning the team with the vision and driving business outcomes daily. • Steered cross-functional efforts to prepare tender submissions, establishing strong partnerships with vendors and service providers. • Led full lifecycle delivery of smart locker projects for Burger King, Jaguar & Land Rover, Costa Coffee, and DPD, from identifying system requirements and partner dependencies to hardware and software implementation, testing, and monitoring. • Applied TOGAF ADM to redesign systems during COVID-19, aligning architecture with available market talent using React for UIs and Qt for core components, reducing project delivery timelines by ~90% and driving business growth. • Built a Yocto IoT Linux distribution with Over-the-air updates and MicroK8s, allowing continuous delivery and third-party software deployment on existing devices, achieving significant cost savings in operations, training, and testing.