I'm
Mihail
Ilinov

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
& MUSICIAN

Senior software engineer with 15+ years of experience across multiple
languages, frameworks and platforms.
Some of the projects in my career have been recognized with several awards.

In my current role as CTO in Capital MI
I'm responsible for R&D of our mobile products, and server infrastucture.

Passionate about music, gaming and clean code.

Check My LinkedIn Profile

My expertise includes:


Software Architecture,
Team Management,
Web & Mobile Dev,
Game Dev & Music Production

Portfolio

SOME OF MY WORK. ALIVE IN THE WILD.

Life & Experience

  • October 2020 - present Capital MI CTO In Capital MI we've created several mobile apps. Most of my efforts went to Fitness 2Go- AI Training Coach app. The technical stack included C#, Unity, Dart, Flutter, JavaScript, Node.js, Express. We've integrated: Firebase, Facebook SDK and Conversion API, AppsFlyer and Stripe.
  • January 2019 - September 2020 Blubito AG Lead Software Engineer In Blubito AG I've worked as a lead full stack engineer. I worked hands on with Angular, PrimeNG, JAVA, Spring Boot, Camunda, BPMN, JasperSoft Studio, Jenkins, Docker and more. We've been following all good Agile Development practices working along the SCRUM framework. I've been leading several mentoring sessions to junior and advanced developers.
  • July 2017 - December 2018 FlowMinds CTO In Flowminds we built and launched Goodworky - an online platform for e-learning, employee training and internal procedures. As CTO I'm responsible for establishing the company's technical vision, leading all aspects of the company's technological development and making hiring decisions Conducting research, evaluating and implementing new systems, leading-edge technologies, and infrastructures Overseeing all system design and changes in system architecture Actively taking part in the coding process of web and mobile development alongside my team
  • November 2016 - December 2018 11235 Ltd. Technical Expert & Consultant Technical Expert in EMPROVE project execution - an Erasmus+ project No: (2016-1-IE01-KA204-016906
    Technical Expert in OPEN MIND project execution - an Erasmus+ project No: 2016-1-BG01-KA203-023754
    Taking responsibility for tasks fulfilment on behalf of 11235 following the role of technical expert in OPEN MIND project execution. Developing, launching and supporting project website for Open Mind
  • 2016 - present TRILOGY Songwriter, Keyboards, Vocals Founded studio band consisting of me (vocals, piano, songwriter), Svetoslav Kepchelev (vocals, guitar, songwriter) and Lazar Lazarov (drums) - Check out our music on
    facebook and youtube
  • September 2016 - July 2017 FlowMinds Senior Software Developer At FlowMinds we worked with Laravel. I've participated in the architecture and have built 4 scalable user-based platforms and several mobile apps. We've used a lot of a good practices and wrote a beautiful code following the Laravel conventions. We've also made several Laravel packages of our own.
  • June 2016 - September 2016 ScalablePath Developer, Remote Worked for The Huffington Post - International Team. Fully remote position. Redesign and new features almost exclusively working with the Twig template engine.
  • 2015 - present MIG 7 Studio Founder MIG7 Studio has released several albums, EP, and many singles. Check it out at: mig7studio.com
  • 2013 7km (Seventh Kilometer) Songwriter, Keyboards, Vocals I became a member of the newly founded band Seventh Kilometer. (6 live performances, 1 published single, 10+ songs)
  • 2013 Boichka.bg Lead Developer - JAVA, XML, Android SDK Along with the website I've made a Native Android mobile application. Boichka was a place where you can upload children's drawings. Like all ideas that enter our lives out of the blue, was "born" spontaneously, but at the same time, it was just the right moment for it.
  • 2011-2016 Calipers.bg Developer Mercari Intranet - stock management, integration with a webb app for barcode scanning MMSolutions Intranet - statistics and product catalogue management. Integrated with Impero™ ERP Calipers.bg - support ticket and integration with Impero™ ERP
  • 2011-2016 Games, Apps and Campaigns Developer While at Calipers, I've built 5 games integrated with the facebook API and over 50 facebook apps & tabs. Bionat.bg branded memory game, CryoSave photo contest game, Bionat alchemist type of game, Neemtone fast clicking game, Hugo Boss Jour Pour Femme puzzle game). Some of the clients I worked for are: Nestle, CryoSave, Bionat, SuperHosting, Globul, Germanos, BossJour, Tommi, TransCard, ERA, Mall Panorama and many more.
  • 2011-2016 Calipers.bg Developer, Team Lead We used a custom php framework (PHP, MVC, MVVM) and integration with Ladger's software elements and Impero.
    I had a leading role in the architecture and building the following sites:
    tidit.bg
    id.tidit.bg
    wallet.medal.bg
    business.medal.bg
    help.tidit.bg
    http://www.energysupply-bg.com/
    and 20+ more projects
  • 2011-2016 Calipers.bg Developer, Team Lead http://calipers.bg/ - BWA Web Awards 2012 - 1 Award http://niva.bg/ - BWA Web Awards 2012 - 2 Awards tendle.net - FORBS e-Volution Awards 2013 http://dictionary.calipers.bg/
    http://www.esign.bg/
    http://www.bionat.bg/
    https://shop.bionat.bg/
    http://www.ictcluster.bg/
  • 2010 - present Metalbolizm Keyboard Player I joined Metalbolizm, a progressive rock and metal band from Sofia, as a keyboard player. We had 3 live performances and were working on a debut album.
  • 2009-2010 VGCompetition.com Founder, Developer - CakePHP, PhpBB, MVC Social platform for online tournaments for console and pc gamers. We've made several tournaments, two of which had big sponsorship and real life awards. I've used CakePHP and built custom integration with a phpBB forum for user profiles. This project was ahead of its time.
  • 2008-2012 Igrachki.bg Owner, Developer - OpenCart - PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS Igrachki.bg was an online toy store. This project was made by me, Yasen Stoynev and Vera Chubar. It lived for almost 4 years and had its break-even in the second year.
  • 2008-2009 Games.bg - Video Gaming Portal Developer and Editor - PHP, vBulletin 4 The first and only site which distributed video reviews in Bulgaria. Later down the road together with my friend Yasen Stoynev we built vgcompetition.com
  • 2006 Eight Art Ltd Internship A company that made FLASH games and websites with ActionScript, PHP, JS, OOP. I worked for them on different projects. Their biggest one was ugdb.com - Ultimate Gaming Database - in terms of content, it was as big as IMDB.
  • 2007 Piano Playing Music I bought my first synth and started learning music theory and playing the piano. This turned out as one of my best decisions.
  • 2006 Pro Evolution Soccer 5 Pro Gamer First place in the National Tournament Pro Evolution Soccer 5 in Bulgaria (2006)
    Participant in ESWC 2006 in Paris
  • 2006-2008 globetravel-bg.com Support I've helped with fixing bugs and providing support for their website.
  • 2006-2008 vmstyle.com Developer I've built a corporate website for textile company.
  • 2005-2008 gltrade.org Freelancer, Dev My second client came along a few months later. This time it was an honest woman called Vera Chubar. She liked what I've done with manga-kun.com. I've built a website for her comics and toys company. Later down the road together with Vera and my friend Yasen Stoynev we built igrachki.bg
  • 2005 - 2008 manga-kun.com Owner, Developer This website became my first serious client project, but it had a dramatic story. The client was a fraud and I was naive. He used me to build a website for him for a manga magazine he was going to publish but never did... Nevertheless, he collected subscription from a lot of people... I was devastated to participate in such events but with the support of my parents and the fans, we rebuilt the site as an online platform for fan translation of manga in Bulgarian.
  • 2004 - 2009 pes.bg Owner, Co-Founder, Developer Founder and developer of PES.BG - the official Bulgarian Pro Evolution Soccer fanportal with a phpBB forum
  • 2004 - 2005 emuzone-bg.com Owner, Dev Bulgarian portal for ROMs and emulators build with (PHP, Joomla) with support from headoff.com
  • 2004 - 2005 yugioh.hit.bg Owner, Developer Тhe first Bulgarian Fansite for YuGiOh with a phpBB forum. A lot of info and community-based awards for translation and adding information about every single card at that time in the TCG
  • 2001 - 2012 Baseball & Football Sport Player I've played baseball in Lions NSA for 6 years and football in the Bulgarian Forums League for 7 years. I played as Catcher and Shortstop in Lions NSA. We've won one first place title in Sofia's Cup. I was the president and manager of MK Drujbeto football team and we won one champion title in 2010.
  • 2001 - 2008 captain-tsubasa.hit.bg Owner, Dev (PHP, PhpBB) This project got more than 3 versions throughout the years. It was a fansite for Captain Tsubasa - anime, games, videos, subtitles, manga. Almost every valuable info was collected and arranged. The portal had its own phpBB forum. I loved this website.
  • 2001-2002 hoo.hit.bg Owner, Dev (HTML, CSS) I made my first website about Pokemon, Football, The Big Foot, Star Wars - my and my best friend's interests back then. I made it with Dreamweaver (Macromedia's cutting edge wysiwyg editor)
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