Work
- Senior Infrastructure EngineerSeptember 11, 2017 to presentMonett, Missouri
- PresidentAugust 2001 to presentIrvine, California
- Interim CTOMarch 10, 2017 to May 31, 2017Fullerton, California
- Cloud ArchitectApril 15, 2013 to December 23, 2016New York, New York
- DevOps ConsultantJanuary 9, 2012 to April 12, 2013Costa Mesa, California
- Web ArchitectJuly 17, 2010 to December 23, 2011Foothill Ranch, Lake Forest, California
- OakleyVault.com
- InfiniteHero.org
- Arnette.com
- oakley.com
- Rayban.com
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- Director of TechnologyMarch 2009 to July 2010San Diego, California
- Southwest Riverside News Network
- San Diego News Network
- Orange County Local News Network
- Chief ArchitectMay 2008 to March 2009Irvine, California
- Artiklz
- Propzy
- Lead Product ArchitectNovember 2001 to September 7, 2007Irvine, California
- Sr. Software DeveloperJanuary 2000 to November 2001Irvine, California
- DevOps Engineer
Professional Skills
Education
- Class of 1993Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
11-ВКласен ръководител - Радослав Етимов.
- Computer scienceVeliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Current City and Hometown
Irvine, CaliforniaCurrent city
Veliko Tarnovo, BulgariaHometown
About Nikolay
- #father #husband #fullstack #architect #cloud #devops #startupjunkie #nerd #philosopher #futurist #biohacker #transhumanist #orthodox #christian #bulgarian
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Favorite Quotes
- The possibility makes the reality.
― Panasonic ad
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
― Eleanor Roosevelt
It's always better to talk with each other rather than about each other.
― RT.com
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
― Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
― Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
― Albert Einstein
I either want less corruption or more chance to participate in it.
― Ashleigh Brilliant
To do two things at once is to do neither.
― Publilius Syrus
There is no strong beer. Only weak men.
― Unknown
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.
― Benjamin Franklin
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
― Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Love the sinner, hate the sin.
― Saint Augustine and Gandhi
Ars longa, vita brevis.
― Hippocrates
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
― Billy Graham
If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
― J. Paul Getty
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
― Mark Twain
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
― Pablo Picasso
In vino veritas.
― Pliny the Elder
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
― Gandhi
Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
― Benjamin Franklin
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
― Friedrich Nietzsche
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
― Catherine Aird
There's always free cheese in the mousetrap.
― Unknown
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
― George Orwell
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
― William E. Simon
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
― Samuel Beckett
Liberty and love
These two I must have.
For my love I'll sacrifice
My life.
For liberty I'll sacrifice
My love.
― Sándor Petőfi
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
― Mark Twain
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
― Oscar Wilde
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
― Herman Melville
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
― Bruce Lee
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
― Voltaire
The things you own end up owning you.
― Tyler Durden, Fight Club
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
― Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
― Tyler Durden, Fight Club
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
― Henry Ford
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.
― George Orwell
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
― Plutarch
Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
― Alejandro Jodorowsky
To be alive at all is to have scars.
― John Steinbeck
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
― Sir John Dalberg-Acton
Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
― Lech Wałęsa
If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.
― Anselme Batbie, Edmund Burke
