Personal Information

Ivan Drinchev


Work experience
September 2024 - May 2026

Senior AI Application Engineer

at CHAPTR

Working on Reedy an AI-based metadata optimisation tool for books. As CHAPTR is the AI innovation hub of Holtzbrinck Publishing group, I’ve contributed to multiple AI-driven PoCs, hackathons and workshops.

Tech stack

Google Cloud, Langfuse, Langchain, OpenAI, Anthropic, Elastic Search, Firebase and others.

September 2023 - September 2024

Senior Full-stack Engineer ( Freelance )

at Nexamind

Creating tailor‑made AI solutions with measurable ROI for enterprise clients. My work includes building various RAG systems for customers as well as a B2B, AI‑powered chatbot platform.

Tech stack

NextJS, Tailwind, React Server Components, Langfuse, Langchain, Langgraph, OpenAI, Azure

September 2023 - September 2024

Senior Full-stack React/Node Engineer ( Freelance )

at Yahoo!

Modernizing and maintaining Yahoo! Mail, used by over 200 million users. I led a team of six developers to redesign Yahoo Mail, including mentoring, driving technical decisions, reviewing pull requests and contributing hands‑on code.

Tech stack

ReactJS, NodeJS and others

September 2020 - March 2023

Full-Stack Web Developer ( Freelance )

at Kieback & Peter

Building an IoT Platform from scratch in a cross-functional teams, including development of applications, UI Library, E2E Tests, NodeJS Backend services with GraphQL

Tech stack

ReactJS, Azure DevOps, Azure Platform, GraphQL, oAuth, Material UI, NodeJS, JEST, Cypress, Terraform, Storybook, Apollo GraphQL

January 2020 - July 2020

Front-end Web Developer ( Freelance )

at Hey Car

Building and maintaining Hey Car, as well as closed-source UI library and internal applications. Participating in Architectural Decision Recommendations and front-end best practices workshops.

Tech stack

ReactJS, Redux, SSR, GitHub, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Styled Components, NodeJS, React Router, Storybook, Cypress

January 2019 - December 2019

Full-Stack Web Developer & team lead ( Freelance )

at OSRAM

Building and maintaining React SPA, Open Source Stylesheet styleguide, React UI Library as well as an open source SDK for OSRAM's IoT platform

Tech stack

ReactJS, BitBucket, Kubernetes, JIRA, ReactJS, CSS Modules, NodeJS, React Router, Styleguidist, JEST, Cypress, OpenAPI, PostCSS

Pre 2019

Freelance Web Developer

More than 20+ years of experience in developing web sites and scalable web applications ( frontend and backend ), deploying them on various clouds and delivering maintainable code. Also, I have done consultancy on development architectures, talent seeking and tech infrastructure and tutoring.

Notable Clients

Ninox, firma.de, Twago, Okonni, M-sense, Core SE


Community work
I've been contributing and maintaining open source projects, such as Mono Social Icons Font and Clief - CLI TypeScript framework. Check them out on my GitHub Profile