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Svetlin Nakov is co-founder and the main driver of SoftUni (https://softuni.org) – the leading institution for training software engineering, blockchain technologies, IT and digital skills in Bulgaria, attended by tens of thousands of young developers.

Svetlin has solid professional experience (20+ years) as software developer and consultant, especially in blockchain, C#, .NET Framework, Java, Java EE, databases, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL Server, Web development, HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, JSP/Servlets, GWT, PHP, software engineering and project management. Svetlin has been technical leader of number of software projects with various technologies and platforms, including blockchain development. He is a speaker in hundreds of technical events, author of hundreds of articles and few books about data structures, algorithms, principles of computer programming, .NET development, Java and PKI security.

He is advisor in successful ICO projects and crypto-startups like LockTrip (raised 10M USD in 2017), Academy School of Blockchain (raised 50M USD in 2018).

Svetlin holds a PhD degree in Informatics and was a lecturer in cutting edge software technologies in Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Technical University – Sofia and New Bulgarian University.

He is a Chairman of the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD).

As a student Svetlin is winner in tens of National programming contests and has 4 medals from International Olympiads in Informatics. In 2004 he is awarded by the Bulgarian President with the prestigious award “John Atanassoff” for his contribution for the development of the information technologies and the information society.