I was born in the town of Gabrovo, located in north-central Bulgaria, where I lived throughout my early childhood before my family moved to the United States. I received a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from San José State University.

Ever since getting my first computer (a Compaq Presario 2295) at an early age I have been in love with computers and have been a curious relentless tinkerer ever since. Some of the cool things that I remember doing during those days were messing around with port scanners looking for Windows NetBIOS exploits and writing Tcl scripts for eggdrop, an IRC bot.

The areas in computing that I am captivated by are in distributed systems, anything related to working with data, and information security.

I’m a big sports fan and watch a fair bit of TV series–probably more than I should. Some of my hobbies other than programming include traveling, hiking while listening to audiobooks, watching movies, and building out my homelab.

On this site you can find more about me, my work, thoughts, and interests.