Georgi Staykov

Co-founded Investing.one and led 0-to-1 delivery of secure, real-time fractional share trading on high-availability AWS infrastructure. Designed fault-tolerant Kafka ingestion for low-latency market data and integrated TimescaleDB for historical data access.

Re-engineered core operational flows and trading modules to deliver millions in revenue improvement while maintaining client feedback loops for roadmap alignment. Managed a cross-functional engineering team of 20+ developers and led a high-volume platform redesign to scale user capacity from thousands to 3M+ active users.

Contributed to high-throughput, concurrent transactional backend processing over 1.5M orders at market open. Built a real-time ETL platform using Debezium for business reporting and implemented production observability and automated CI/CD deployments.

Worked in fraud prevention on a debt collection project focused on reducing costs and increasing recovery rates for clients. Optimized an in-house ORM framework, migrated Java applications from Struts to Spring, implemented business features, and supported issue resolution with customer support level 2.

Developed and maintained automated UI tests for iOS, Android, and Web applications. Used Appium for iOS/Android testing and Selenium for Web, with test scenarios written in Java using TestNG and Cucumber and executed via a Selenium Grid.

Led teaching for data structures & algorithms and object-oriented programming courses.

Built a network crawling system to discover VMware products in customer cloud environments, collect license information, and support license compliance analysis. Focused on data collection and evaluation for compliance needs.

Completed a Computer Science program at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski from 2012 to 2016.