Ivo Panayotov - Ruby on Rails Developer with REST APIs

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Varna, Bulgaria

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Experience

Sep 2023 - Jul 2025

1 year 11 months

Ruby on Rails Developer

Homie

Built and maintained RESTful APIs on Rails with PostgreSQL
Owned background processing for notifications and long-running tasks using GoodJob/Delayed Job
Wrote RSpec suites across request, model, and policy tests and used RuboCop in CI
Added Capybara for end-to-end flow testing
Documented endpoints and improved integration reliability with third-party services

Nov 2021 - May 2023

1 year 7 months

Ruby on Rails Developer

WOGI

Integrated external APIs and maintained admin and client panels
Iterated product flows with pragmatic tests
Contributed light front-end changes using Vue basics while focusing on Rails APIs

Feb 2021 - Oct 2021

9 months

Ruby on Rails Developer

MentorMate

Implemented features backed by Active Record
Collaborated using Git and Jira
Documented APIs with Swagger/OpenAPI
Implemented authentication and authorization with Devise and Auth0
Learned disciplined testing and delivery practices

Industry experience

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Experienced in Information Technology and Real Estate.

Information Technology

Real Estate

Business area experience

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Experienced in Information Technology and Product Development.

Information Technology

Product Development

Summary

Ruby on Rails developer with 4+ years of experience building REST APIs with PostgreSQL and background jobs using GoodJob/Sidekiq patterns; comfortable with RSpec and Capybara for testing; currently formalizing AWS and Docker while adding a small React dashboard to a live project.

Skills

Background Jobs: Goodjob/Delayed Job; Prior Sidekiq With Redis.
Back End: Ruby, Rails, Rest Apis, Service/Form Objects, Decorators, Auth/Policy Layers
Data & Caching: Postgresql (Primary), Redis
Testing & Quality: Rspec, Capybara, Rubocop
Ci/Cd & Tooling: Github Actions, Docker/Compose, Containerized Dev/Test Workflows
Cloud: Aws (Cda Prep — In Progress).
Frontend: React Coursework For Dashboards — In Progress

Languages

Bulgarian

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Feb 2020 - Feb 2021

Software University

Web Developer (ASP.NET Core MVC) · Sofia, Bulgaria

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 3

Experience in Information Technology 2.5 y

Avg length 1 y 4 m

Longest experience 1 y 10 m

Expertise

Recent roles Ruby on Rails Developer

Main industries Information Technology, Real Estate

Main business areas Information Technology, Product Development

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Member since

November 2025

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Ivo is based in Varna, Bulgaria.

Ivo speaks the following languages: Bulgarian (Native), English (Advanced).

Ivo has at least 4 years of experience. During this time, Ivo has worked in at least 1 role and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 4 months. Note that Ivo may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Ivo would be well-suited for roles such as: Ruby on Rails Developer.

Ivo's most recent position is Ruby on Rails Developer at Homie.

In recent years, Ivo has worked for Homie, WOGI, and MentorMate.

Ivo is most experienced in industries like Information Technology and Real Estate.

Ivo is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology and Product Development.

Ivo attended Software University for Web Developer (ASP.NET Core MVC).

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