Biography

About

I grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria. I started developing an interest for Mathematics and the natural sciences during high school.

For my university studies, I moved to Germany. There I completed my BSc, MSc and PhD studies and worked for 4 years afterwards.

Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic, I decided to move back to my home country of Bulgaria. After moving, my priority was completing my Executive MBA degree. During my studies I worked on different consulting projects. After completing my MBA studies, I decided to start my own solo-consulting company.

Education

Executive MBA, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

• 01.2024 - 05.2025
• Thesis “Razbor.bg: A News Intelligence and Discussion Platform”
• Elective courses: Project Management, Win-Win negotiations
• GPA: 5.59 (best 6.00).

PhD Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• 01.2014 - 04.2020
• Thesis “Algorithmic and Implementational Optimizations of Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Process Engineering”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Bungartz
• Presentations at conferences in Germany, Czechia, Austria and USA.
• Co-authored 13+ publications; 400+ citations; h-index 10. See Google Scholar profile (link).

MSc Computational Science and Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany

• 10.2011 - 10.2013
• Thesis “Numerical Simulations of Wind Impact on Decay and Transport of Wake Vortices of Landing Aircraft”, supervised by Dr. Frank Holzäpfel, DLR.
• Focus on computational fluid dynamics and machine learning.
• GPA: 1.4 (best 1.0).

BSc Mathematics, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

• 09.2008 - 06.2011 (now Constructor University)
• Thesis “Parallel Implementation of the Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Fluid Flow in a Porous Medium: Application to Flow Over Microtopography”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Arzhang Khalili.
• Focus on physics and computer science.
• GPA: 1.5 (best 1.0). Member of the president’s list for the academic years 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 for high GPA

National High School of Mathematics and Sciences Acad. L. Chakalov, Sofia, Bulgaria

• 09.2003 - 06.2008
• Focus on mathematics and computer science. Merit scholarship.
• Participated in mathematics competitons and students' conferences. Represented Bulgaria at Research Science Institute 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• GPA: 5.94 (maximum 6.00).

Career

Founder, Freelance Consultant, Tchipev Consulting EOOD

• 02.2026 - Present

Consultant, Camplight

• Consultant Algorithm Research and Development, Infineon
  • 09.2024 - 03.2025
  • Optimized CAD tools using C++, javascript. Achieved 500x speed-up.
• Consultant Data Science and Visualization, Akooda
  • 05.2024 - 09.2024
  • Client data analysis using Python, MongoDB, Metabase and GCP.

Expert HPC Software & Application Support, Discoverer Petascale Supercomputer

• 09.2023 - 05.2024
• HPC programming with C++ and SLURM
• Support and communication with users

Refined Labs Gmbh - A Nielsen Company

• Data Scientist
  • 01.2022 - 06.2023
  • Member of Global Research Analysis and Development team
  • ETL design and optimiyation of a new algorithm for aggregating marketing resopnse models with Python and Pandas
  • reduction of resource consumption of a large Luigi - PySpark DAG for Multi-Touch Attribution
  • redesign of legacy Spark RDD pipeline to use Spark Dataframes and switch in-software to Pandas for small datasets in product for multiple regression on large datasets
  • Used Python, Pandas, PySpark, Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib, Jupyter, Luigi, AWS
• Senior Software Engineer
  
  • 09.2019 - 12.2021
  • Development and operation of a product for marketing campaign outcomes.
  • Used Java, SQL, AWS, Gitlab CICD, Bash

Research Associate, Technical University of Munich

• 01.2014 - 08.2019
• Work on research projects sponsored by BMBF Germany
  • "SkaSim: Skalierbare HPC-Software für molekulare Simulationen in der chemischen Industrie"
  • "TaLPaS: Task-basierte Lastverteilung und Auto-Tuning in der Partikelsimulation".
• Optimised codes for Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi architectures as part of the Intel Parallel Computing Center @ LRZ & TUM.
• Teaching of tutorials, practical courses and seminars.
• Supervision of student assistants, bachelor’s and master’s theses.

German Aerospace Center (DLR)

• 10.2012 - 12.2013
• Intern, Student Assistant, Master's thesis, Technical Associate
• Support to project “Probabilistic Two-Phase Wake Vortex Decay and Transport Model” at Department of Cloud Physics and Traffic Meteorology, Institute of Atmospheric Physics.
• Master's thesis.

Student Assistant, Technical University of Munich

• 10.2011 - 09.2012
• Massively parallel implementation of the Molecular Dynamics simulation in project for coupling Molecular Dynamics and Lattice-Boltzmann method solvers.
• Parallelized code for running on up to 32768 MPI processes.

Fraunhofer MEVIS

• 07.2010 - 09.2011
• Intern, Student Assistant
• Development, pre- and post-processing of blood flow simulations inside arteries via Palabos and MeVisLab.

Intern, Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund