Introduction

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Name: Denislav Gavrilov
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Age: 26
Interests:
- Primary: technology, entrepreneurship, media
- Secondary: design, storytelling, philosophy
- Personal: physical wellbeing, outdoors, the people

TL;DR

Deep generalist. Technical. Creative.

I write, program, design, think, talk, and ask questions.

I enjoy physical activity, being outdoors, and talking to people.
I drive a Honda CRV Gen 2.

My Work:

• notate.so: Web clipper.

• globchess.com: Global chess board where anyone can make the next move on.

• txtwrite.com: Markdown editor, local-first, web-based, auto-save, stylish.

• diffium: Terminal-based (TUI) diff viewer & git commands center.

• clopus: Experiments with Claude Code

Timeline

Below is the entire timeline of what I ever did that is relevant.

2014-2019

1. Gamedev (school, hobby)

2. University (ICT) /dropped out/

2019-2021

1. System Administrator /2019/
   first job

2. DevOps /2020/
   second job

3. Technical Writer /2020/
   one-time contracts at digitalocean, syntropy (now synternet)

2021-2022

1. Platform Engineer /2021/
   third job

2. Marketing (DevRel) /2021/
   full-year contract at digitalocean

3. Training Content Creator (Startup) /2021/
   one-time contract at a startup /introduced to digitalocean’s cofounder :)/

2022-2025

1. Platform Engineer /2022/
   third job

2. Staff Engineer /2024/
   third job, promotion

3. Software Architect /2025/
   long-term contract

2026

1. here & now

WRITING

Here is a highlight of my writing.

Long-form / effort:

The concept of a Character

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Dec 14

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Tartare: Accessibility, Perception, and Internet Discourse

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Dec 7

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Perfection, Authenticity & Intuition

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Dec 7

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Short/Medium-form (X):

• You are not a software engineer
  /#social/#tech/ ~ (1.5M views)

• My girlfriend’s dad just came out as the most based dude I’ve ever seen
  /#story/#essay/ ~ (1.5M views)

Read the rest here.

TECHNOLOGY

Throughout my entire career, I have been working with a large set of technologies. Below is a comprehensive list of them.

(a technology being in this list means I have worked with it for at least a year)

• Programming Languages: Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Jsonnet, Python, SQL, PHP

• Platforms: Laravel, Vercel, Auth0, Supabase, Firebase, Upstash

• Frameworks: NextJS, Laravel, ExpressJS, Expo, Supabase, Firebase

• Libraries: NextAuth, Tailwind, Bootstrap (ew), React (+Router), Expo Go, Expo Router, Stripe-js, Framer Motion, Resend, ThreeJS, Shadcdn, htmx, Auth0, supabase-ssr/client, drizzle, axios, reduxjs, alpine.js, livewire

• Kubernetes: ArgoCD, nginx-ingress-controller, cert-manager, external-secrets, external-dns, grafana, prometheus, velero, sealed-secrets, reloader, keda, karpenter, aso, eck/es, fluxcd, kustomize, helm

• Containerization: Docker (/Podman), Docker Compose / Swarm, Packer

• Infrastructure: Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL), Wind*ws Server 2008/12/16, vSphere, Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, k3s, DO)

• Infrastructure As Code: Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, Bicep, Cloudformation

• Cloud: Azure, AWS, DigitalOcean

• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Github Actions

• Scripting: BASH, Python, Go

• Databases: Firebase, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CosmosDB, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Azure Managed SQL, Redis, Influxdb

• Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Datadog, New Relic, Nagios, OTEL

• Miscs: Nginx, Apache2, Varnish, Veeam, Kibana, Spark, tomcat

Other than that, I love tinkering with stuff I find interesting:

Clopus-01: A semi-autonomous Claude Code

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Dec 19

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• BOTTING: How I managed to get access to the private X API (API V2) for free

  /#technical/ ~ (500k views)

My Links:

• X/Twitter

• Youtube

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