Yavor Milchev

Only part-time post-acquisition support as of May, 2026.

- Built and shipped a portfolio of Shopify apps end to end, hands-on across PHP/Laravel, TypeScript/React, MySQL, and AWS, with a small in-house team.
- Handled peak loads of up to 100K requests per minute during holiday shopping periods across the app portfolio backend services.
- Acquisition by Aberdeen Capital completed in April 2026.

- Built fintech systems for the Kasasa Loan and Mortgage platforms, used by hundreds of community banks.
- Developed and maintained over a hundred serverless Java functions on AWS Lambda.
- Built and maintained backend microservices in either Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Batch, or PHP / Laravel.
- Worked heavily with SQS, SNS, S3, DynamoDB, and other AWS products, orchestrated with Terraform.

- Built and maintained consumer-facing platforms on Laravel and WordPress, plus Node.js microservices.
- Rebuilt legacy C#/.NET systems into a modern Laravel and Vue.js platform.
- Worked with a range of mortgage and credit-card REST and XML APIs.

- January 2016 - Software Engineer, Internal Operations team.
- January 2017 - Senior Software Engineer, Growth team.
- June 2017 - Senior Software Engineer, Selling and Architecture teams.

Building and maintaining the Tradesy buying and selling platform. Developed features for various parts of the company, from internal tools, to selling tools, and finally security and architecture.

I worked at Centerfield Media from March 2010 to December 2015 (previous position below).

• In charge of building, maintaining and growing a portfolio of websites written in PHP and C#.
• Single PHP Engineer at Centerfield Media.
• Working primarily with WordPress, Umbraco and .NET MVC 4, with front end that uses HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and responsive design.
• Leading a team of three developers.

• Created CandyClub.com using WordPress and WooCommerce (as required by the client).
• Created a dynamic check out page which allows for changing products, applying discount and modifying shipping options without page refreshes - not supported by WooCommerce.
• Created ability to switch subscriptions mid-term without re-creating objects or losing history.

• Managed a portfolio of websites in the finance, travel, b2b and other verticals.
• Responsible for building the websites - being the only PHP developer in the company.
• Achieved top 3 rankings for keywords that had over $30 CPC within one year.
• Led a team of three SEO Specialists and two interns.
• Moved to the engineering department after Google's updates changed the SEO world.

Managed an SEO campaign for a website with over 2 million monthly visitors. Drove organic search improvements, resulting in over 5 million monthly visitors after the first year.

Lots of hands-on metal working along with office tasks such as working with AutoCAD, making large scale blueprint printing, blueprint scaling and other office duties.

Working from Bulgaria, Europe. I managed a small team of SEO specialists. We built and optimized simple HTML/CSS websites. My most successful project at BlackSheep was the website 247jet.com. Holding the #1 for the term private jet, this website generated a great number of clients in a highly lucrative space. 247jet.com was not in the top pages on Google at the time when I was hired.

Bachelor of Science in Automation and Control Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia, completed from 2003 to 2007.