About me

I am a 19 years old Bulgarian software developer, mainly specialising in the fields of:

1. Cross-platform application development
2. Desktop application development
3. Systems programming
4. Software distribution
5. Software internationalisation

I am currently studying Computer and Software Engineering at the Technical University of Sofia in Bulgaria.

At my day job at Metacraft Labs, I work on the CodeTracer time-travelling debugger for Ruby, Noir, C, C++, Rust, Go and more.

In my free time, I mainly work on one of my numerous projects, mainly the UntitledDesktopEnvironment and its custom desktop application development toolkit: the UntitledImGuiFramework.

Software development

I started my software development journey when I was 12 years old in 2018. Over the years I have focused on working in the roles listed belowed, with the skills I have gained for each role as subpoints:

1. Game developer 2018 - 2020: mainly developing games with Unreal Engine 4
   • Game development with Unreal Engine 4
   • General game development experience
   • Usage of standard Unreal Engine 4 utilities
   • Level design
2. Game engine developer 2020 - 2023: developing the UntitledVulkanGameEngine, my own custom game engine
   • Game engine development
   • Library development
   • Framework development
   • CI/CD
   • dear imgui
   • Graphics programming
   • Vulkan
   • OpenGL
   • C/C++
   • Shell/Bash
3. Maintaining Funtoo Linux i18n packages 2022 - 2024: added, autogenned and maintained a large part of the packages covered by the Funtoo Linux Multilingual Project
   • DevOps
   • Desktop packaging
   • Gentoo/Funtoo packaging
   • i18n application development
   • Python
4. Social media brand manager 2023 - 2024: experimenting with running an instagram page about Bulgarian hip-hop + developing utilities that use the Spotify API for certain tasks
   • Social media marketing
   • Social media account management
   • Python
5. Desktop application developer 2022 - present: creating my own independent desktop environment and desktop application development toolkit from scratch
   • Desktop application development
   • Software internationalisation
   • Linux systems programming
   • Linux desktop application development
   • Windows systems programming
   • Windows desktop application development
   • macOS systems programming
   • macOS desktop application development
   • iOS application development
   • iPadOS application development
   • Android systems programming
   • Android application development
   • Graphics programming
   • Vulkan
   • OpenGL
   • WebGPU
   • WASM
   • Emscripten
   • C/C++
   • Shell/Bash
   • Rust
   • Golang
   • LXD
   • Incus
   • DBus
   • IME Development
   • Programming language development
   • SVG manipulation
   • Autotools, CMake, Makefiles
   • Build systems
   • CI/CD
   • Large project & team management
   • Fonts and typography
   • Flutter
6. Web developer 2020 - present: developed a number web applications, both simple and complex using vanilla JS, C++ and Rust
   • HTML, CSS, JS
   • Rust
   • C/C++
   • SQL
   • PostgreSQL
   • Fonts and typography
   • SVG manipulation
   • Bash & shell scripting
   • Full-stack web development(without frontend frameworks)
7. Flipper Zero application developer 2024 - present: creating applications for the Flipper Zero and developing a C++ wrapper for its C API
   • Embedded
   • Library development
   • C/C++
8. DevOps tooling developer for pkggen 2025 - present: developing a utility for robust automatic updating, testing and publishing of desktop packages for multiple package managers and operating systems at the same time
   • CI/CD
   • C/C++
   • Python
   • Bash & shell scripting
   • DevOps
9. Developer at Metacraft Labs September 2024 - present: working on the CodeTracer time-travelling debugger for Ruby, Noir, C, C++, Rust, Go and more.
   • Desktop application development
   • Software internationalisation
   • Linux systems programming
   • Linux desktop application development
   • macOS systems programming
   • macOS desktop application development
   • Windows systems programming
   • Windows desktop application development
   • C/C++
   • Ruby
   • Python
   • Noir
   • Nim
   • Rust
   • Go
   • Tup build system
   • Just command runner
   • Nix package development
   • Shell/bash scripting
   • Autotools/CMake/make
   • Electron
   • Javascript
10. Unannounced Heapforge project 2025 - present: developing an unannounced project in the field of graphic design
    • SVG manipulation
    • Fonts and typography
    • C/C++
    • UntitledImGuiFramework
11. Ebooks and online courses 2025 - present: writing ebooks and creating online video courses in the field of desktop application development
12. Multiple unannounced Heapforge projects 2025 - present: mostly websites

My projects

Here is a list of all my projects based on their topic, ranked by size and complexity in descending order:

Desktop applications/UntitledDesktopEnvironment

Libraries and frameworks:

1. UntitledImGuiFramework - a fully featured desktop application development toolkit using the dear imgui UI library. Try an interactive demo at https://uimgui.madladsquad.com
2. pkggen - a tool for rubust automatic updating, testing and publishing of desktop packages for multiple package managers and operating systems at the same time
3. UntitledImGuiFileBrowser* - a file browser library for dear imgui used by the UntitledFileBrowser project
4. UntitledI18N - an internationalisation library with a custom YAML format written in C++
5. UntitledFontManager - a cross-platform font manager and fetcher library
6. UntitledImGuiTextUtils - a rich text rendering library for dear imgui
7. UntitledTemplatingEngine - a templating engine with a lisp-like programming language
8. UntitledDBusUtils - a C++ metaprogramming wrapper on top of the low level C DBus API that introduces memory- and type-safety
9. UntitledDesktopIcons* - a cross-platform C/C++ library for getting the default icons for applications or OS actions
10. UntitledOpen - a cross-platform library for opening URLs or files with the default application/file picker
11. UVKBuildTool - a utility for assisting in the build process of the UntitledVulkanGameEngine and UntitledImGuiFramework with an additional static site generator functionality
12. cimgui_extra - a collection of hand-written C bindings for a number of popular dear imgui libraries
13. UntitledImGuiTheme - a library for loading themes as YAML files for dear imgui
14. UntitledCLIParser - a C/C++ parser for CLI arguments
15. UntitledLog - a C/C++ logging library
16. UntitledExec - a cross-platform wrapper on top of fork & exec/CreateProcess
17. UntitledRuntimeLibraryLoader - a cross-platform library for loading shared libraries at runtime
18. UntitledXDGBasedir - a C/C++ implementation of the XDG Base directory and XDG home directory specifications
19. UntitledDesktopBootstrap* - a number of scripts for bootstrapping the UntitledDesktopEnvironment

Applications:

1. UntitledGameSystemManager - a graphical manager for containerised Linux gaming systems
2. UImGuiDemo - a demo for the UntitledImGuiFramework. Hosted at https://uimgui.madladsquad.com
3. UntitledFileBrowser - a cross-platform file browser and file picker
4. UntitledDEPolkitAgent** - a polkit agent for the UntitledDesktopEnvironment
5. UntitledDESessionLogout - a session logout utility for Freedesktop-based systems
6. UntitledIBusHandwriting - a handwriting input method for IBus

* Highly incomplete and a work in progress

** Not yet started development

Web applications

1. YouyinWeb - a website for learning how to write in any writing system. Hosted at https://youyin.madladsquad.com
2. tiny.lol - a URL shortener
3. UntitledCommerce - A university project where I and 3 more people made a full ecommerce solution with an example frontend, backend and control panel
4. MadLadSquadSite - the website for MadLadSquad. Hosted at https://madladsquad.com
5. hanzi-writer-data-others - a hanzi-writer character database for all languages, except Chinese and Japanese
6. hanzi-writer-data-youyin - a unified character database for youyin
7. YouyinPublicDeckRepository - a repository containing all the public decks on the Youyin marketplace

Flipper Zero

Libraries and applications:

1. FlipperTasks - a TODO list application with over 30K downloads on the flipper application catalogue as of February 2025. You can see up-to-date statistics here
2. UntitledFlipperZero - a C++ wrapper on top of the C UI API

Games

1. UntitledVulkanGameEngine - the UntitledVulkanGameEngine source code

Misc

1. MadLadSquadBot - the discord bot for the MadLadSquad discord server
2. UntitledDesktopOverlay - a Gentoo/Funtoo overlay for the UntitledDesktopEnvironment
3. SpotifyUtilities - scripts for fetching data from official and unofficial Spotify APIs used for my old social media page
4. ChitankaExtractor - a number of scripts for extracting data from https://chitanka.info book archives
5. check-for-synced-branches-action - a GitHub action that checks if 2 branches are in sync and outputs by how many commits they diverge
6. GenericScripts - a repository of useful scripts

Work experience

This is my current work experience, outside of my own personal projects:

1. 2020 - 2021: freelance programmer
2. September 2024 - present: part-time developer at Metacraft Labs Ltd. Project not yet released.

Human languages

These are the languages I am currently learning:

1. Bulgarian 🇧🇬 - native
2. English 🇬🇧 - between C1 and C2
3. German 🇩🇪 - B1
4. Mandarin Chinese(simplified characters) 🇨🇳 - HSK3(new)

In the future I might start learning more languages, though given my tight schedule that might not happen soon 😬.

Hobbies and interests

I am mainly interested in:

1. Language learning 🇧🇬🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇳
2. Skateboarding 🛹
3. Travelling 🛩️
4. Video games(have not played in years though) 🎮

I want to devote more time to:

1. Sketching and drawing ✍🏻
2. Calligraphy and typography 🔤
3. Music production 🎹
4. 3D modelling 📦
5. Creative writing 📝