Martin Linkov | Freelancer Resume

Martin Linkov Entrepreneur at crossroads Slovak Republic area Internet Current Previous Education Recommendations Websites 500+ connections Ingen.io StartUP Bulgaria, Sensika Technologies, Favit Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon 9 people have recommended Martin Linkov Company Website Personal Website Company Blog Summary Experiences: ‑ Social Media: Analysis, Content Creation and Promotion ‑ Content Harvesting & Aggregation, Media Monitoring & Analysis ‑ Natural Language Processing ‑ analysis and understanding, ‑ Knowledge Graphs: Ontologies building, expansion and mapping ‑ Customer Support and Knowledge Bases ‑ Software development, testing and documentation ‑ Event Management, Organization and Promotion Open Data enthusiast and evangelist. Key, early employee in two startups favit and http://sensika.com. Founder of one: http://ingen.io Team leader and player, community builder and salesman. Personality: ‑ Resourceful and inventive: growing up in a changing and unstable environment taught me to make the most of what was available and come up with new ideas and approaches to improve things. ‑ Observant: I hear, see and process vast contextual information and connect pieces very quickly to draw a complete image. I'll make a great cop or investigator ;) ‑ Direct: I rarely hold back feedback or emotions, if something impresses or bothers me I will voice it straight away. ‑ Organized: I like to clean, classify and order things, essentially transform chaos into order. ‑ Punctual: Always on time, or ahead, never late. ‑ Curious: I'll poke, ask, tear apart any machine or problem until I fully understand it. ‑ Tenacious: I'll stop at nothing to achieve a goal. There's always a way! Experience Co‑Founder & COO Ingen.io March 2014 – Present (4 years 2 months) Ingen.io, a tech startup that creates context and surfaces named entities that are not explicitly mentioned but are part of the broader narrative. All entities, stated or implied are represented in a Contextual Graph with information about their relationship type and weight of importance in the text. As co‑founder I helped raise capital for the company from corporate and venture investors, as well as secured innovation grant from the EC. I manage the Unigraph's Schema ‑ the Ontology about the people, companies, products and everything else that you can thing of and matters. My job is to represent flat data into rich graph structures and think of the appropriate ways to express complex relationships as those contained in the UK and US GAAP, DbPedia, Wikidata, freebase, etc. I am also responsible for understanding and cleaning vast amounts of data coming from public sources like Companies House, CrunchBase, SEC EDGAR, the EC's Publication Office etc. I also build, maintain and nurture relationships with investors, partners, users, clients and public bodies in person and over e‑mail, phone, chat and social media channels. Languages: ‑ GoLang ‑ GraphQL Tools: ‑ CircleCI ‑ Github ‑ Postman ‑ Loggly ‑ Purechat Event Manager StartUP Bulgaria September 2010 – October 2014 (4 years 2 months) Organizing events promoting entrepreneurship. Organizing the annual StartUP conference and the monthly OpenCoffee meetings as well as the StartUP Weekend events. Managing the entire event lifecycle, coordinating with suppliers and vendors, making speakers comfortable and welcome. ‑ The biggest event attracted more than 600 guests over the course of 2 days packed with inspirational speakers from across the Globe. ‑ On average, over 3 days (Fri ‑ Sun) StartUp Weekend events attracted 100+ people (we started small with just 50 participants and grew to 120). I helped 3 teams polish their skills and get funding by the early stage investors: Eleven and Launchub Tools and services used: Project Management: ‑ Basecamp ‑ Trello Marketing Automation: ‑ Mailchimp ‑ IFTTT Tickets: ‑ Eventbrite Customer Support, QA & Catalogue Manager Sensika Technologies September 2012 – March 2014 (1 year 7 months) Recruited and trained a talented team to support Sensika's Competitive Intelligence Suite customers. Helped design and improve the the vast, proprietary source catalogue and made sure it works smoothly and all sources are properly tagged by the automatic algorithms which I helped define and tune. Built trust for the product in the Telco and PR circles in Bulgaria and secured the first big client for Sensika ‑ VIVACOM ‑ the largest Telco in Bulgaria. Conducting on‑site and remote training sessions for up to 15 people at big corporations: VIVACOM, Mtel, CEZ Group. Won different exposure opportunities for Sensika, including a free booth at the biggest web conference in Europe ‑ The Web Summit in Dublin. Test automations with Selenium. New Features Requests, Bug Reporting and Backlog tracking through Jira. CRM ‑ Podio ‑ GetSatisfaction Community Marketing Manager Favit September 2008 – August 2012 (4 years) I made favit the first Bulgarian startup to be featured on Techcrunch (link below) and ReadWriteWeb. Localizing the website in Bulgarian and Greek, managing the translation in Slovak. Finding and engaging with early adopters. Creating, maintaining and growing external communication channels, mainly the company's blog and twitter accounts. Brand ideation and management. Testing the product, reporting bugs (JIRA) and requesting improvements. Building the community through social media and supporting it with knowledge base articles, video tutorials etc. This was my first startup and I enjoyed working in a truly international environment with colleagues from Romania, Turkey and Russia and interns from the UK. New Features Requests, Bug Reporting and Backlog tracking through Jira Support Suite: ‑ Zendesk Customer Success Manager Aplus.net August 2005 – September 2008 (3 years 2 months) Mail, phone, chat support for shared hosting and domain names clients from the US. Contributing articles to the internal Knowledge Base on Web Hosting and Domain related issues. Enjoyed the truly international environment and the interactions with my colleagues from the US, Mexico, India and Australia. Support Suite: ‑ Kayako Education Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon Modern Greek 2007 – 2007 A two‑month program chartered by the University of Athens to gather and elevate the brightest Modern Greek scholars across Europe. I had the pleasure to be taught by the best professors and explore Greece with experienced archeologists. The highlight of the program was the "Sprint of nations" at the ancient stadium in Olympia. In very tough competition I won the event. Activities and Societies: Modern Greek Language, Culture and History Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Bachelor, Modern Greek Philology, B 2004 – 2008 I managed to combine my interest in languages and technology and apply innovative methods to studying, including the creation of web dictionaries and other interactive helpers. Activities and Societies: Fencing University of Ioannina Modern Greek 2008 – 2008 Activities and Societies: Modern Greek Language, Culture and History National High School of Ancient Languages and Cultures High School Diploma, Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature 2000 – 2004 Volunteer Experience & Causes Organizer Startup Weekend May 2012 – May 2014 (2 years 1 month) Economic Empowerment I've organized six consecutive startup weekends in Sofia, Bulgaria. Each event showed steady growth and on average we had more than 200 participants/guests. Localization Mozilla March 2009 – March 2010 (1 year 1 month) Science and Technology Localizing the Mozilla products (Firefox, Thunderbird) and promoting them in the community. Translator Zendesk April 2009 – May 2009 (2 months) Education I translated the Zendesk interface in Bulgarian and Greek and helped my colleagues do it in Turkish, Romanian, Slovakian and Russian. Skills Data Extraction Product Development Social Media Online Marketing WordPress Online Advertising Social Media Marketing Blogging Public Speaking Email Marketing Event Management phpMyAdmin Translation Customer Service Blogging Software Event Planning Video Blogging Blog Marketing Usability Testing Event Photography Corporate Blogging Proofreading Scrum Microsoft Excel PowerPoint Video Production Customer Experience Blog Management Quality Assurance Event Marketing phpBB Product Placement Video Editing Google Docs Wikis Blog Management Quality Assurance Event Marketing phpBB Product Placement Video Editing Google Docs Wikis Marketing Copy Blog Development Manual Testing Bug Tracking Adobe Premiere Shopping Cart Website Copy Digital Marketing Entrepreneurship Google Analytics Marketing Start‑ups PhpMyAdmin Management See less Certifications SQL Code Academy April 2018 – Present SQL Code School December 2017 – Present Startup Weekend Facilitator Techstars October 2017 – Present Git Code School April 2016 – Present JavaScript Code Academy April 2016 – Present Linked Data and the Semantic Web FutureLearn April 2016 – Present Terminal Code Academy April 2016 – Present JSON Code Academy February 2016 – Present Regular Expressions Code School February 2016 – Present Making Sense of Data Google December 2015 – Present Coding for Data Analysis FutureLearn November 2015 – Present Certificate in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) City & Guilds, License BCF5708/877020/532668/06/02/1986 March 2004 – Present Courses Ingen.io • Finances for Startups • Presentation Skills Languages English Greek Bulgarian Slovak Professional working proficiency Native or bilingual proficiency Limited working proficiency Elementary proficiency Projects Ingeiosity @ weXelerate's Batch 1  Starting September 2017 Ingeniosity has won the attention of the jury and corporate partners at weXelerate and the company is among the few companies accepted for the first batch of the innovative acceleration program. Team members: Martin Linkov, Dr. Stephan Jung, Clemens Pegritz, Ines Ben Brahim, Benjamin Ruschin Ingeniosity @ Vienna StartUp Package, 2016  Starting May 2016 Ingeniosity is one of just 10 companies from all over the world selected to be supported by the Vienna Business Agency for expansion into the DACH market. The program runs in cooperation with Pioneers Discover. Team members: Martin Linkov, Ramin Amighi, Tamara Stix, Petra Wolkenstein, Harald Gold, Dudu Gencel UniGraph @ ODINE  Starting November 2015 In November '15 Unigraph joined the second cohort of the Open Data Incubator Europe (ODINE). I had the pleasure to work with the brightest minds in the Open Data Community, meet Sir Tim Berners Lee at the ODI Summit in London, seek and find advise by Chris Taggart from OpenCorporates ‑ a pioneer in the Open Data Space. I've learned a lot and UniGraph benefited from support and connections that would have otherwise been very difficult to secure. Team members: Martin Linkov, Michal Jemala, Hubert Gertis, Igor Mihalik UniGraph  Starting December 2014 Unigraph provides access to information in context about the entities from the world we live in and their relations through time. Unigraph is the largest open Knowledge Graph and is pioneering a GraphQL approach to querying data. Team members: Martin Linkov, Michal Jemala, Igor Mihalik Wayra CEE, 2nd Acceleration Cohort  Starting April 2014 Ingen.io became the first Bulgarian‑led startup accelerated and funded by the biggest accelerator initiative in the world ‑ Telefonica's Wayra. Ingen.io is part of the second cohort of Wayra CEE and enjoys access to great mentors and advisors from all over the world. Team members: Martin Linkov, Jarmila Plachá, Lenka Kucerova, Evzen Cekota, Simon Rawlence, Jaromir Beranek, Veronika Kučerová, David Fogel Webmaster  Webmaster Starting September 2005 Together with my colleagues I've build and then supported the first website of my specialty. In 2012, I've upgraded it to a more modern CMS (Back in 2005 Wordpress was not available). Technologies and software packages used: ‑ Site@School CMS ‑ MySQL, phpMyAdmin ‑ phpbb ‑ phpmylist ‑ Mambo/joomla ‑ e107 ‑ Wodpress ‑ Academica Theme Team members: Martin Linkov, Maria Peicheva, Hristo Laskov Unigraph @PODIM Challenge 2017  April 2017 – May 2017 Positioned Unigraph in the top 20 most promising startups in the CEE region. Exhibited at the PODIM Challenge and made it to Finals of the competition where I delivered a presentation en par with the winner in terms of jury score. Team members: Martin Linkov, Nina Cepon, Anja Kodra, Simon Sovič XBRL and iXBRL Parser for Unigraph  July 2016 – August 2016 Led the effort of understanding and transforming the XBRL data reported by SEC EDGAR and UK's Companies House into a Graph Structure for the needs of Unigraph. Gained deep understanding of US and UK GAAP and applied it to the data extractors. Team members: Martin Linkov, Michal Jemala Ingeniosity @ Slovak American Foundation's "US Connections" inaugural round  December 2015 – January 2016 Ingeniosity was recognized by a panel of experts as a very innovative startup and among many applicants from the Slovak Republic was considered among just 5 finalists for funding for business and marketing expansion in the US by the Slovak American Foundation. Team members: Martin Linkov, Maria Hurajová Ingen.io @ Tech All Stars 2015  June 2015 – June 2015 Ingen.io is a fInalist in Tech All Stars 2015 ‑ a program chartered by the European Commission (Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology) to connect the 12 best European startups. Team members: Martin Linkov, Alec McCullie, Mariann Nordvik, Di Su CPA MBA GIACert, Luisa Rouillard Greek > Bulgarian Linguistic Glossary  May 2015 – May 2015 I've cleaned the data for and build from scratch a dictionary platform for a Greek > Bulgarian Glossary with Linguistic Terms. Technologies used: ‑ Wordpress ‑ Encyclopedia Pro Plug‑in ‑ Wp Ultimate CSV Importer Plug‑in (to handle the data from .csv from Google Sheets) Team members: Martin Linkov Ingen.io @ Betapitch Berlin  May 2015 – May 2015 Ingen.io became the only Bulgarian/Czech/Slovak/UK company presenting at Betapitch Berlin 2015 and the only one in the Big Data track. Team members: Martin Linkov, Katarina Nagyova StartUP Conference Next 2014  September 2014 – October 2014 The biggest enterepreneurship event in Bulgaria. Speakers include Bob Dorf, Marvin Liao, Rob Fitzpatrick. I set up the website and managed all ticket streams. Helped with the airfare and accommodation of the guests and the promotion of the event. Team members: Martin Linkov, Blagomir Yanakiev, Stanimir Milev, Chris Georgiev, Ivaylo Ivanov, Adriyana Mihaylova, Margarit Ralev, Salim Virani, Vessy Tash (Vesselina Tasheva), Hristo 'Chris' Neychev, Hristo Boyadzhiev, Hristo Chernev Ingen.io @ Startup Rally 2014 Prague and Vienna  September 2014 – September 2014 Preparing the Ingen.io application for Startup Rally, pitching in Prague and Viena and helping Atanas win in Viena Team members: Martin Linkov, Marina Hramkova, Alex Berezovskiy, Nina Wöss Ingen.io @ Building Global Innovators, 5th Ed.  July 2014 – September 2014 Building Global Innovators ‑ a joint competition/accelerator initiative by MIT Portugal and Caixa Capital. In tough international competition (130 applications from 31 countries) Ingen.io was shortlisted in an elite group of 20 promising startups that will compete in the BGI challenge for up to EUR 200K investment. Apart from the financing, the program also helps aspiring entrepreneurs polish their pitching and marketing skills and connect with investors. Team members: Martin Linkov, Catarina Machado Madeira, Gonçalo Amorim, Oliver Röhrich, Brook Spaulding, Luis M. Barros Ingen.io @ Spark.me  May 2014 – May 2014 Spark.me is a prestigious two‑day conference dedicated to social media, held in Budva, Montenegro. Ingen.io was nominated by TC editor John Biggs among the 10 most promising startups in the SEE region from a formidable pool of more than 40 submissions from 10 countries. Team members: Martin Linkov, Natasa Djukanovic, John Biggs StartUP Conference Next 2013  September 2013 – November 2013 Helped put together the biggest, annual entrepreneurship event in Bulgaria that attracted key International speakers, spanned 2 days and inspired 600 young people! Team members: Martin Linkov, Chris Georgiev, Blagomir Yanakiev, Stanimir Milev Social Platform Discovery and Harvesting Rules September 2013 – October 2013 Created the rules and logics for the identification and marking of content arriving from forums, blogs and other social hubs to be identified and displayed as such in the faceted view of the platform. Team members: Martin Linkov, Dimitar Todorov Organizations StartUP Foundation Member of the board Starting October 2010 LinkedIn Corporation © 2018 User Agreement Privacy Policy Ad Choices Community Guidelines Cookie Policy Copyright Policy Send Feedback Recommendations  Martin makes sure things are handled, period. Every small detail of  I was a guest of the Startup Bulgaria Conference which was perfectly event speaker management is seamless. There are no missteps on Martin's watch. He's also charming and personable. A great host. organized by Martin and his colleagues. 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