# Nikola G. Tachev

> Motivated software engineer looking for a long term position

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikolagtachev

“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” – Henry Ford

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Freelancer @ Unknown
Jan 2020 – Present
Designing, developing, and delivering software according to client specifications.

Implemented server side solutions for complex algorithms analyzing real-time financial stocks and trading data.

Created several React pages displaying complex data models providing UI for analyzing real-time financial stocks and trading data.

Architected a NoSQL server database structure for managing financial data for quick analysis.

### Software Engineer @ Infragistics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | United States
Developed new features and maintained product stability for a productivity management platform

Provided support in the architecture and development for 15 internal .NET Core and 50+ external services within a complex microservices server architecture and multi-cluster database architecture

Managed and improved the public .NET Core Web API including integration with .NET Core services

Containerized services through Kubernetes and Docker, managed service deployment and service status, as well as service unit tests deployment and stability through Jenkins 

Troubleshot, debugged, and fixed bugs; Completed 300+ tasks; Ensured database consistency; Developed, deployed, and maintained 400+ automated tests for maximum code coverage

### Software Engineer Fulltime Student @ New Jersey Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Newark, NJ

### Special Events Technician @ New Jersey Institute of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Worked on campus between classes setting up the technical equipment for events and classrooms. Provided technical support for professors across all of campus.

### Software Engineer CTO and Co-Founder @ GlydeApp, Inc
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Hired, mentored, and managed a team of developers and designers.

Organized, delegated, and completed the entire application development lifecycle for 2 cross platform React Native mobile applications, as well as an Angular web platform.

Launched 2 fully functional mobile apps within the first 4 months (Apple Store and Google Play Store).

### Software Engineer Intern @ Infragistics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Cranbury, NJ
Automated UI testing for the latest cross-platform application on Web, WPF, iOS, and Android.

Integrated Selenium WebDriver with .NET Core to run parallel multi-browser UI tests.

### Software Engineer Frontend Lead @ Krow Network
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Engineered and developed a job search web application using Angular 4 and blockchain technologies for a decentralized platform using Python for data analysis and a server public RESTful API.

### Software Quality Assurance Analyst @ Coursera
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | online
After taking some courses on Coursera, I decided to contribute to the community by volunteering as a beta tester for multiple curriculums, fixing errors and learning the material along the way. I would go through all the reading material and coding questions and complete them all with a detailed oriented outlook finding errors and submitting bug reports to the relevant party. 

Even though I didn't receive certificates upon course completion, I learned a lot reading through the material and completing the coding questions on my own.

### Software Engineer Student @ Online Computer Science Courses
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Princeton University – Algorithms Part I 
Princeton University – Algorithms Part II 
Harvard University – CS50 Online 
University of Minnesota – Introduction to Software Testing 
University of Minnesota – Agile Software Development 
University of Michigan – Web Design for Everybody Specialization 
Duke University – Programming Foundations with JavaScript, HTML and CSS 
Duke University – Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software

All courses were completed with honors, and there are many more not listed that were taken through Coursera.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Infragistics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Princeton, New Jersey
Participated in all the phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within a tech company for the first time.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology

### GED in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
Princeton High School

### Harvard's CS50
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### Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software by Duke University on Coursera
Duke University

### Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals
Duke University

### Online course in Web design for everybody (Basics of web development and coding)
University of Michigan

### Computer Science
Coursera


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikola-g-tachev

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Last updated: 2026-03-29