🇬🇧 English
Hey — I'm Nikolay, but honestly nobody calls me that — just call me Niko. I'm based in Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪, originally from Bulgaria 🇧🇬. I've been learning to program for about two years now and I'm genuinely enjoying the journey — still figuring things out, but making real progress every day.
Outside of code I'm into MMA, street fitness, and staying active. I love gaming (PS5 is basically my co-worker), travelling, and building small games and websites just for fun. I'm naturally curious and always open to picking up something new. I'm fairly new to GitHub — only recently started putting my work out there publicly.
🇧🇬 Български
Хей — казвам се Николай, но честно казано никой не ме нарича така — просто ме викайте Нико. Живея в Хамбург, Германия 🇩🇪, роден съм в България 🇧🇬. Уча се да програмирам от около две години и наистина се наслаждавам на пътуването — все още се ориентирам, но правя реален напредък всеки ден.
Извън кода се занимавам с ММА, street fitness и спорт като цяло. Обичам гейминга (PS5 е почти като колега на работа), пътуването и изграждането на малки игри и сайтове само за удоволствие. Естествено любопитен съм и винаги съм отворен към нови неща. Сравнително нов съм в GitHub — само наскоро започнах да публикувам работата си публично.
🇩🇪 Deutsch
Hey — ich heiße Nikolay, aber ehrlich gesagt nennt mich niemand so — nennt mich einfach Niko. Ich lebe in Hamburg, Deutschland 🇩🇪, und komme ursprünglich aus Bulgarien 🇧🇬. Ich lerne seit etwa zwei Jahren zu programmieren und genieße die Reise wirklich — ich finde mich noch zurecht, aber ich mache jeden Tag echte Fortschritte.
Neben dem Code beschäftige ich mich mit MMA, Street Fitness und Sport im Allgemeinen. Ich liebe Gaming (die PS5 ist quasi mein Arbeitskollege), Reisen und das Bauen kleiner Spiele und Websites einfach zum Spaß. Ich bin von Natur aus neugierig und immer offen dafür, etwas Neues aufzugreifen. Ich bin noch relativ neu auf GitHub — erst kürzlich habe ich begonnen, meine Arbeit öffentlich zu teilen.
location: Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪 (originally Bulgaria 🇧🇬)
hobbies: MMA · Street fitness · PS5 · Travellingbuilding: CallMeFood — ASP.NET Core MVC
completed: SE & DevOps · Containers & Cloud · JS Front-End · ASP.NET Advanced
learning: Clean Architecture · Design Patterns
next: Microservices · REST API DesignBackend
C# .NET ASP.NET Core MVC ASP.NET Core Identity EF Core LINQ Dependency Injection Async / Await
Database
SQL Server SSMS Stored Procedures Triggers Transactions Migrations
Frontend
HTML CSS JavaScript Razor Views Bootstrap Tailwind CSS DOM Manipulation REST / AJAX
Testing
xUnit Moq TDD
DevOps & Tooling
Git GitHub Actions Jenkins Docker Docker Compose Linux Azure Infrastructure as Code App Monitoring
Principles
OOP SOLID Design Patterns Clean Architecture
A full-stack recipe platform built with ASP.NET Core MVC.
| Architecture | Controllers → Services → Data (separation of concerns) |
| Auth & roles | ASP.NET Core Identity — Admin / User roles |
| Features | Recipes, ingredients, comments, favourites, pagination |
| Tests | Service-layer unit tests — xUnit + Moq |
| Stack | C# · ASP.NET Core MVC · EF Core · SQL Server · Bootstrap · Razor |
All issued by Software University (SoftUni).
| Course | Date | Verify |
|---|---|---|
| SoftUni Professional Diploma – Software Engineering | May 2026 | 🔗 |
| Containers and Cloud | Feb 2026 | 🔗 |
| Software Engineering and DevOps | Jan 2026 | 🔗 |
| JS Front-End | Oct 2025 | 🔗 |
| HTML & CSS | Sep 2025 | 🔗 |
| ASP.NET Advanced | Jun 2025 | 🔗 |
| Entity Framework Core | Feb 2025 | 🔗 |
| MS SQL | Jan 2025 | 🔗 |
| C# OOP | Oct 2024 | 🔗 |
| C# Advanced | Sep 2024 | 🔗 |
| Programming Fundamentals with C# | May 2024 | 🔗 |
| Programming Basics | Jan 2024 | 🔗 |

