# Ivelin Bratanov

> Senior Software Engineer | 6+ Years of Full Stack Experience

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ivelin

Hi, I'm Ivo! A full stack software engineer with 6+ years of experience building user-friendly, performant web applications using technologies such as React, TypeScript, PHP, Rails, SQL, Java, and Python. 

I'm also a digital artist, musician, and entrepreneur who loves creating at the intersection of technology, music, and art.

If you're looking to build responsive, scalable software - shoot me a message, I'm happy to help!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer & Digital Artist @ Mint Rain Studios
Jan 2021 – Present
• Developed a tool to transform video files into digital art, generating $15K+ in art sales
• Producing, mixing, & mastering digital music, released on all streaming platforms
• Established Echo Collective, the largest audiovisual artist collective on the Solana blockchain (50+ members, $10,000+ in art sales)
• Led 21dao, a non-profit initiative providing mentorship & educational content to 300+ emerging NFT artists

### Senior Full Stack Engineer @ GlobalComix
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Led the architecture and implementation of GlobalComix's first push notification service using PHP 8 & Firebase Messaging (FCM), which enabled the sending of 700K+ notifications to date with an average ~8% open rate (3% higher than the industry standard)
• Built key elements of GlobalComix's new frontend application, paying particular attention to responsiveness & accessibility. This project was a complete UI overhaul using the latest & greatest frontend tech: React 18, TypeScript, Chakra UI, Vite
• Co-developed a new search service built on top of Elasticsearch, used for indexing the company's dataset of 60K+ comics and providing more accurate results
• Collaborated on Meta & Google ad campaign attribution, bridging the gap between campaigns, Apple SKAdNetwork values, Firebase & Google Analytics, and GC's internal tools and purchase events

### Full Stack Engineer @ MINDBODY, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack development of marketing tools used by 35K+ businesses to send 1B+ emails every year.

• Project Lead - Marketing Suite Rebrand: Collaborated on project requirements with product/UX teams. Executed technical implementation, aligning React component libraries & CSS frameworks with the core product. Integrated marketing suite into MB products, increasing competitive advantage & incentivizing high-end tier purchases
• Architected a REST API + backend microservice for creating email templates & storing thumbnails in Amazon S3
• Co-led development of an editable deep link for custom discounts, projected to generate $1M+ ARR
• Directed technical interviews, designed interview questions & traveled for international hiring
• Performed monthly on-call site reliability engineering with Datadog, Sentry, Heroku Metrics, PagerDuty

### Full Stack Engineer @ ChargeLab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ChargeLab specializes in technology for managing electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

• Worked with CTO to build an online dashboard for managing EV charger pricing, monitoring usage & collecting data via OCPP. This is now the primary SaaS product of ChargeLab, helping it grow to 5K+ customers

### Full Stack Engineer @ Kickback
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Early engineer at Y-Combinator-backed startup revolutionizing the eSports space
• Built an auction microservice where users bid on virtual game items
• Developed an admin panel to detect game hackers & track employee productivity

### Co-Founder, CTO @ Backflip
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Toronto
• Grew Backflip to 1.5K+ monthly users by building the MVP & leading a team of 4 mobile engineers
• Pitched to investors, raised $65K in funding & established strategic partnerships such as Pride Toronto

### Entrepreneur @ The Next 36
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Toronto, Canada Area
Selected from 600+ applicants based on technical skills, academic merit, and entrepreneurial accomplishments to build a business and take MBA courses in Canada's top university startup program.

About: Founded in 2010, The Next 36 set out to solve a big problem: Canada’s deficit of high impact entrepreneurs and global business leaders.
With the goal of turning the country’s top students into Canada’s most successful future leaders and innovators, The Next 36 provides mentorship, funding, and academic instruction over 8 months, during which entrepreneurs build a company in the tech space.

### Co-Founder, Director @ HackMcGill
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Montreal, Canada Area
• Organized McHacks I & II, bringing over 500 students to McGill for 24h of programming and raising over $90,000 in funding for the event 2 years in a row
• Sent students to inter-university hackathons across North America (MIT, Harvard, Yale, UPenn)

### Software Developer Co-op @ Ericsson
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Montreal, Canada
• Resolved issues & bugs in open-source Jenkins CI tools: jenkinsci/build-pipeline-plugin, sonyxperidadev/gerrit-events
• Fixed a critical certificate bug in the MHWeb plugin which had rendered it unusable for 20% of users
• Increased team productivity by 5% by writing scripts to automate tasks and include them in the CI/CD process
• End-to-end testing for all software written (JUnit, Mockito, Selenium)


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Minor in Management
McGill University

### Bachelor's Degree (Semester Abroad) in Software Engineering
Yonsei University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### DEC in Health Science
Marianopolis College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### DES in French Immersion
Royal West Academy
Jan 2005 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ivobratanov

---
Source: https://flows.cv/ivelin
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ivelin/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29