Viktor Kirilov


Personal information
Name	Viktor Ivanov Kirilov
Address	Sofia, Bulgaria
Nationality	Bulgarian
E-mail	vik.kirilov@gmail.com
Date of birth	08.11.1991 (27 years old)

Talks	Title: code::dive 2019: C++ as Assembly 2.0 - Hello Nim slides, other conferences: OpenFest 2019 Title: The architecture of a modern SQL engine - query compilation, optimization and execution slides Title: ACCU 2019: Nim - the first compiled language with full support for runtime hot code-reloading slides, other conferences: C++ User Group Sofia Title: CppOnSea 2019: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Faster Builds slides, other conferences: NDC TechTown 2019, C++ Russia 2019, C++ CoreHard 2019, code::dive 2018, MeetingC++ 2018, Total Chaos 2018, in Bulgaria: C++ User Group Sofia Title: CppCon 2018: Interactive C++ Compilation (REPL) Done in a Tiny and Embeddable Way slides, other conferences: C++ Russia 2018 Title: CppCon 2017: Doctest - Implementing and Using the Fastest Modern C++ Testing Framework slides, other conferences: code::dive 2017, Cpp-Summit 2017, in Bulgaria: CG2 2016, OpenFest 2016
Work experience
Period	Mar , 2020 - present
Employer	Status.im - a secure messaging app, crypto wallet, and Web3 browser: as a Software Engineer
Activities and responsibilities	• Working on Nimbus beacon chain - a research implementation of the beacon chain component of the upcoming Ethereum Serenity upgrade, aka Eth2.
Period	Mar, 2019 - Mar, 2020 (1 year)
Employer	NuoDB - elastic SQL database: as a Software Engineer
Activities and responsibilities	• Reduced C++ build times from 15 minutes down to 3 (up to 80% faster) by integrated precompiled headers & unity builds - greatly improving the workflow of the 25+ devs and the CI infrastructure. • Implemented per-statement memory tracking of client connections in the SQL layer + query killing. • Worked on various functionality such as aggregate functions in the SQL layer. • Introduced the sanitizers (ASAN/LSAN) to the codebase. • Gave a talk about the architecture at C++ User Group Sofia - slides.
Period	Nov, 2018 - Feb, 2019 (4 months)
Employer	Status.im sponsorship of the development of Nim: as a Contractor
Activities and responsibilities	On a 4 month contract - implemented hot code-reloading for the Nim programming language - paving the way for implementing a REPL on top of it. The technique is based on compiling each source file into a shared object and hotswapping them at runtime - all function calls and globals go through pointers which are initialized with a custom dynamic loader - the entire technique is implemented in the code generation of the Nim compiler which emits C/C++ code. Gave a talk about it on ACCU 2019 in Bristol, UK.
Period	Jan, 2016 - Oct, 2018 (2 years 10 months)
Employer	None - wrote open source
Activities and responsibilities	• doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11 single-header testing framework for unit tests and TDD. Gave a talk about it at CppCon 2017 and at code::dive 2017. Responsible for marketing, support, documentation and testing in addition to engineering. Got published on the JetBrains blog and ACCU - user growth. • RCRL - Read-Compile-Run-Loop: tiny and powerful interactive C++ compiler (REPL) - blog post. Also had a talk about it at CppCon 2018 and C++ Russia 2018. • game engine - With a focus on improved workflows: object composition using dynamix, custom automatic reflection built on top of LibClang to keep things DRY, and support for reloading most C++ components at runtime (including changes to the memory layout of classes). Also integrated a C++ REPL (RCRL).

Period	July, 2013 - Dec, 2015 (2 years 6 months)
Employer	ChaosGroup: as a Software Engineer
Activities and responsibilities	Integration of V-Ray into Maya - worked on CMake, the scene translator, exporter & integration of XGen.

Period	July, 2012 - June, 2013 (1 year)
Employer	Gameloft Bulgaria: as a Game Developer
Activities and responsibilities	Gameplay/3D/UI/network programming. Engine structure - level/object management.
Technical skills
Programming languages	C/C++, Nim, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, GLSL.
APIs, libraries & frameworks	Vue.js, STL, Boost, Qt, Kafka, Protocol Buffers, LibClang, Seastar, LLVM, Bison, OpenGL, imgui, SDL.
Tools	Visual Studio, Git, CMake, build systems, compilers, Emscripten & asm.js, Clang/GCC tools (formatting, static analysis, sanitizers), Valgrind, perf, Autodesk Maya, Continuous Integration, Atlassian stack.
Other	Knowledge in blockchains, Ethereum 2.0, compiler development, algorithms, databases, distributed systems, multi-threaded programming, testing, automation, game development, graphics programming, network programming, network security.
Education
2019	Center for Economic Strategy and Competitiveness (CESC) in Sofia, affiliated to Michael Porter’s Institute of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School - see the syllabus
2010-2012	University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics - studied "Informatics"
2005-2010	Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), associated with the Technical University of Sofia
	Specialty: “Programming and information technologies” Diploma serial No.К-10, No.011172, reg. No. 749-68/24.06.2010 Thesis: “Development of a 2D Worms clone with SDL under Linux” - link
2006-2008	English language course Level achieved – C1 ‘Europe Schools’ – Sofia Certificate “CAE”(C1), ESOL
2008-2010	CISCO CCNA 1-4 courses ‘LCA-ELSYS TU’ - Sofia

Other
Personal site	onqtam.github.io
GitHub profile	github.com/onqtam
Twitter profile	twitter.com/KirilovVik
Linkedin profile	linkedin.com/in/onqtam
StackOverflow profile	stackoverflow.com/users/3162383/onqtam
Technical books read	goodreads list