Nedelcho
Nikolov
I build backend systems for sports data at Enetpulse, lead the team that runs them, and share what we learn on conference stages across Europe.
- Work
- Team Lead and Senior PHP Developer at Enetpulse, running sports data products on AWS since 2016.
- Organising
- Head of Heralds at OpenFest, and on the organising teams of DEV and QA: Challenge Accepted.
- Next talk
- Connecting Logs, Metrics, and Traces with Grafana LGTM, DevOps Pro Europe, Riga, Latvia, May 2027.
- Certified
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate.
Speaking
All 10 talks and podcasts- May 2027UpcomingConnecting Logs, Metrics, and Traces with Grafana LGTMDevOps Pro Europe, Riga, LatviaObservability
- Jul 2026Why the Job Market Is Rough Even for Senior Developers — Episode 108DEV.BG Podcast, onlineCareer · Podcast
- Mar 2026How to Find Your First Job in IT — Episode 100DEV.BG Podcast, onlineCareer · Podcast
- Nov 2025The Two-Second Ultimatum: 1 Image, 39 Outputsjs.talks();, Sofia, BulgariaBackend Engineering
Writing
All posts- 16 Jul 2026Back on DEV.BG: Episode 108 - Why the Job Market Is Rough Even for Senior DevelopersI returned to the DEV.BG podcast for episode 108 to discuss why even senior developers with years of experience are struggling to find their next job.5 min read
- 9 Jun 2026From Lovable to Production: Building the WC 2026 Live Insights Widget with CursorHow we built a fully functional, embeddable football widget for the 2026 World Cup in three days using Lovable, Cursor, and AI-first development, from PM prototype to production deploy.6 min read
- 24 May 2026Fine-Tuning SciBERT to Classify arXiv Research PapersHow I built an end-to-end NLP pipeline that classifies scientific abstracts into broad domains - from raw arXiv data to a deployed REST API.8 min read
- 26 Apr 2026Deploying a Next.js App with PM2 and GitHub ActionsA practical guide to deploying a Next.js application to your own server using PM2, Nginx, and automated GitHub Actions deployments over SSH.4 min read
Experience
Full experience- Feb 2016 - Ongoing
Senior PHP Developer/Team Lead/DevOps @ Enetpulse
Joined Enetpulse in Sofia as a Senior PHP Developer. Within a year I had taken on responsibility for the company's AWS infrastructure and become actively involved in maintaining it. Shortly after, I was promoted to Team Lead on one of the company's key projects. More than ten years later, I'm still here — which says a lot about the place.
- Jun 2012 - Feb 2016
Web Developer @ eTel
Joined eTel, a digital agency in Sofia, where I spent nearly four years working on large-scale client projects as well as internal tools. It's where I significantly levelled up — building dynamic JS interfaces, integrating third-party APIs, and learning what it takes to deliver real products at scale.
- Mar 2011 - Jun 2012
Web Developer @ ProHost
My first professional role as a web developer, at a small agency in Gabrovo. Over a year and a half I built up solid hands-on experience with website development and got my first real taste of working in a professional environment.
Let's work together
Whether it's a talk, a project or a question about something I wrote, email is the fastest way to reach me.
[email protected]- Speaking
- Conferences, meetups, podcasts and panels on PHP, backend architecture, DevOps and team leadership.
- Mentoring
- Developers growing into backend, DevOps or their first lead role.
- Consulting
- Architecture reviews, team processes and scaling problems that need a second opinion.
- Collaboration
- Side projects and partnerships that solve a real problem.