Iavor Kolev Kostadinov

Iavor Kolev Kostadinov is a Bulgarian mathematician and software developer. He represented Bulgaria at the 32nd International Mathematical Olympiad (Sigtuna, Sweden, 1991), scoring 30 points (7,7,2,6,6,2) for a Bronze Medal. He studied Mathematics and Economics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (1991-1996) and completed postgraduate studies in Banking at the University of National and World Economy (1995-1996). He worked as an economist at the Bulgarian National Bank, then as a lead software engineer at HERMES SoftLab, and now works in system development at CPB SOFTWARE AG in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area, with a Java/J2EE and SQL/Oracle stack.

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• Represented Bulgaria at the 32nd IMO (Sigtuna, Sweden, 1991), scoring 30 points (7,7,2,6,6,2) for a Bronze Medal at rank 72 (77.2%).Jul 1991
• Career path runs olympiad math -> quantitative banking -> enterprise software: a Bulgarian National Bank economist before his master's finished, then lead software engineer at HERMES SoftLab, now Java/J2EE system development at CPB SOFTWARE AG near Frankfurt, a trajectory typical of post-1991 Bulgarian math talent migrating into Western European IT.Jan 2024
• 1991 Bulgarian IMO team, led by Ljubomir Davidov with deputy Nikolai Raikov, finished 7th overall (192 pts, 89.1%) with silver medals for Boshko Bakalov, Dantcho Danev and Milen Tchernev alongside his bronze.Jul 1991
• Based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main metropolitan area, Germany, working at CPB SOFTWARE AG (a banking/insurance software vendor) - his employer ties back to his banking-economics training.Jan 2024
• Educated at Sofia's elite mathematics high school NPMG (1988-1991) after SMG (1986-1988), the standard pipeline for Bulgaria's IMO team members; joined Sofia University straight from NPMG in 1991.Sep 1991