# Martin Iotchev

> Senior Software Engineer | Full-stack Development

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/martiniotchev

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Labelbox
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Motivo
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Project lead: Motivo Learning - subscription-based video-streaming platform for continuing education.
• Increased product offerings by building a live & on-demand online video platform for continuing education certification in 6 months by coordinating product, content, design, marketing, support teams.
• Designed and implemented a form-generator for online test creation and evaluation.
• Designed and implemented an HLS video transcoding pipeline to handle content creation.
Project lead: Billing initiatives
• Eliminated >80 hours/month of manual processing by building an automatic monthly reporting system.
• Reduced refund and error rate by 25% by building a billing tracking dashboard.
• Removed >20 hours/month of manual payouts by building a Stripe Connect integration.
• Enabled movement of $300,000+/month by rebuilding the billing system to enable 2-day payments.
• Reduced user-error and support interactions by 80% by rebuilding the core scheduling workflow.
• Reduced user acquisition time by 60% by removing operational involvement and self-serving user matching.
• Increased team productivity by conducting 30+ hours 1:1 pair-programming sessions with junior engineers.
• Reduced CI build times by 30%.
• Improved product launch cycles by building and improving our in-house feature flag system.

### Programming Mentor @ Codecademy
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020
•	Improved learners’ code skills by providing one-to-one lessons, code reviews on >600 projects, individual learning and career paths, and support in debugging applications.
•	Leveraged knowledge in web development, software engineering, customer service, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Git, Sass, jQuery, Java, PHP, NodeJS, Express, and SQL.

### Fullstack Software Engineer @ Prezi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Reduced monthly incidents by ~80% and reduced p99 latency by ~20%  in search microservice by optimizing Elasticsearch cluster sizing;
• Reduced React bundle sizes by 30% and decreased time to first paint by ~50ms by implementing React lazy-loading on a view page with millions of views monthly;
• Led Elasticsearch knowledge sharing sessions;
• Maintained and developed features for millions of users across our Django backend and React frontend;
• Leveraged knowledge in: Typescript, NodeJS, React, Python, Django, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes.

### Fullstack Engineer @ FoodChain
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sofia, Bulgaria
•	Coordinated engineering efforts to design and build the cloud-native SOA FoodChain platform and API from scratch, replacing the existing WordPress-based system. This decreased API response times by ~40% and decoupled the API from front-end clients, increasing developer velocity.
•	Decreased operational infrastructure costs by 30% by transitioning to cloud services vs on-prem.
•	Reduced deployment times by 75% over manual deployments by designing a GitOps CI pipeline. Improved developer experience by abstracting away infrastructure behind a Git-centered workflow.
•	Leveraged knowledge in cloud infrastructure, and microservices programmed in NodeJS on top of Kubernetes. Also utilized MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and Kafka as an event-streaming bus.

### Freelancer @ Upwork
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Top-Rated Freelance Web Developer with a 100% job success rate.

### Android Developer @ Gourmet publishing
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Sofia, Bulgaria
Designed and developed an Android application linked to a WordPress API that augments user experience at a wine exhibition

### Intern @ Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Tufts University
- Designing and developing various WordPress plugins for distribution within the CEEO;

### Junior Web Developer @ The MIT Press
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boston, MA
•	Developed Drupal modules for XML parsing and importing of journal publications, and usage analytics for the ~100 universities using the MIT Cognet website.
•	Leveraged knowledge in content management systems and PHP.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Mechanical Engineering
Tufts University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### High School in Physics
American College of Sofia
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22