Svetlin (Alex) Bostandjiev

UCSB CS dept., Santa Barbara, CA 93106 805-***-**** abo4y2@r.postjobfree.com://bostandjiev.com

Goal: To start working full-time in 2012 in one or more of the following capacities:

Software Engineer, Web Developer, UI/UX Engineer, Research Scientist

Education

M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara Expected

graduation: 2012

Areas: Web User Interfaces, HCI, Data Visualization, Web Development, Social & Semantic

Web

GPA: 3.92Graduate Program in Management Practice, University of California, Santa Barbara 2011

GPA: 3.97

B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics, Franklin & Marshall College, PA 2006

GPA: 3.92 (top 1%, summa cum laude)

Awards

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PACISE Programming Contest - 3 award 2006

Trinity College Robotics Contests top 10% 2005, 2006

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National Mathematics Contest of Bulgaria - three 1 awards, one 3 award 1996 2001

Full Merit-Based Scholarship, F&M College 2003 2006

John Kershner Scholar in Mathematics received two stipends, F&M College 2005, 2006

Awarded a total of 5 research grants as an undergraduate student, F&M College 2003

2006

Work

Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, CA Summer 2011

Worked on Chrome: Enabled interaction with multiple web pages on screen at the same

time

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Developed a 3D web browsing demo - voted 2 best of 30 projects in the 2011 Project

Showcase

Work was presented at SIGGRAPH 2011

C++, JavaScript, HTML5, WebGL

Software Engineer & Product Manager, DealerTrack, Santa Barbara, CA Summer 2010

Designed and developed a web-based visual analytics tool for the automobile industry

Silverlight, C#, ASP.NET, MS SQL, LINQ, WCF Services

Software Engineer, Mindflash, Santa Barbara, CA Summer 2009

Developed for an online training system that helps managers train thousands of

employees every day

Flex/Flash, C#, ASP.NET

Software Engineer, Kaseya, Santa Barbara, CA Summer 2008

Introduced dynamic updates in the company's web interface by integrating new client-

side libraries

C#, JavaScript, ASP.NET

Open Source

WiGis: Web-Based Graph Visualization Framework (http://wigis.net) 2008 present

Invented a technique for interactive visualization of millions of graphics primitives

in the browser

Researched and compared multiple web technologies and techniques that can produce

graphics on the web

Made significant impact: the framework is being used by National Intelligence, US Army,

IARPA, NSA

Java, JavaScript, Flex/Flash, AJAX, HTML5, SVG, MySQL

Entrepreneurship

Founder of a Social Networking Website (http://3drasti.com

)

20072008

Created the first Facebook clone in Bulgaria (20,000 users ~0.3% of the population)

Implemented all of Facebook's functionality before Apps (25,000 lines of code)

Attracted a funding offer of half a million dollars from the two major IT companies in

Bulgaria

ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, MS SQL

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Research

Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara 2008 -

present

Selected Projects:

2011

Reviewer, Graduate Student Workshop on Computing (GSWC) 2010

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, UCSB 2006 2008

Courses: Java Programming, Computational Science

* Received an Award for Exceptional Performance as a Teaching Assistant

Skills

Languages: Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, ActionScript, OpenGL, WebGL

Web: Flex/Flash, Silverlight, HTML5, SVG, AJAX, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON

IDEs: Eclipse, Visual Studio, SlickEdit, Flash Builder

Databases: MySQL, MS SQL

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