# Kiril Vatev

> Principal Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kirilvatev

I am a Principal Software Engineer, working in the web development space since 2008. I am a full stack engineer, working seamlessly across the front-end, back-end, REST APIs, and including mobile and cloud solutions. I primarily use JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS. My past positions have had a huge focus on teaching and mentoring, as well as on forward-thinking architecture and design, and sustainable software development practices. I have been working fully remote since 2016, and am well versed in building comradery and relationships in a remote setting. If you have a good idea for me I would love to hear it.

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Passage Health
Jan 2024 – Present

### Principal Engineer @ Accusoft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
In this position, I designed new and re-architected existing products and systems, focusing on high quality and sustainable development practices. I also steered technical direction across the organization, finding ways to unite our product lines and reduce redundant work and offerings.

This role also heavily focused on mentorship. I worked closely with developers across multiple product families to solve complex technical problems.

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Accusoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Senior Software Engineer @ Accusoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
Lead developer on several projects. Responsibilities include:
• Develop scalable and performant NodeJS microservices.
• Improve development and build pipelines to increase team productivity.
• Mentor junior developers.
• Closely collaborate with other teams at the company.

### Software Engineer @ Accusoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
• Designed and implemented a modular framework for a large legacy monolothic application, in order to allow faster and easier development.
• Increased test coverage of our product in order to make code updates safer and increase automated feedback for developers during the development cycle.

### Software Support Engineer @ Accusoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
• I collaborated directly with customers to facilitate integration of our product into their solutions, and assure that their solutions followed best-practices.
• Worked with the sales team in order to resolve any potential technical issues for potential customers.

### Web & .NET Developer @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Lead developer on an online multiplayer game, GeoGame.
I designed and implemented:
• a web UI using JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Dojo, and jQuery
• a RESTful API to handle gaming mechanics in C# and ASP.NET MVC
• full duplex client-server communication using SignalR

### Web Application Prototyping, Intern @ Esri
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Redlands, CA
Rapid application prototyping on a small R&D team
• built a map tile server using JavaScript and NodeJS
• created a responsive mobile and desktop boilerplate for full-screen online mapping applications in pure JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• created a full software package for analyzing and mapping social media data
• designed and implemented UI and UX for multiple web projects


## Education
### Master’s of Arts in Geography (GIS)
The Ohio State University

### Bachelor’s of Science in Geography (GIS)
The Ohio State University

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
Firestone High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kirilvatev
- Portfolio: http://www.kirilv.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/catdad

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Last updated: 2026-03-31