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Borislav S. Sabotinov

Enterprise platform architect driving multimillion dollar efficiency at scale.

Austin, TX
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Work Experience

General Motors

Staff Software Engineer (Lead), High-Performance Compute (HPC) Innovation
2019 – Present

  • Delivered $12M+ in annual cost reductions by architecting and building an HPC Toolkit on Slack and Microsoft Teams via Azure Bot Service, providing real-time job telemetry and proactive failure detection to 2,000+ CAE engineers.
  • Delivered $650K+ in annual cost savings by implementing a Slack-based triage and routing system for HPC support, reducing resolution time and increasing leadership visibility into systemic bottlenecks.
  • Reduced new Teams bot delivery time from 4 months to 2 weeks by designing a reusable Azure Bot Service architecture enabling standardized enterprise rollout.
  • Removed weeks of infrastructure setup per team by establishing a shared Neo4j evaluation platform and internal Slack community, accelerating graph-based reasoning and AI experimentation.
  • Saved 100+ developer days annually by automating builds, security scans, and deployments across web, desktop, and CLI applications, including automated Fortify scanning.
  • Improved CI build performance by 70%+ using Kubernetes persistent volume caching for Maven artifacts.
  • Led migration from Jenkins Enterprise to Jenkins OSS for containerized builds, preventing hundreds of failed security scans.
  • Reduced Jenkins job sprawl from 72 jobs to 4 standardized pipelines, consolidating build logic into version-controlled workflows.
  • Enabled 12+ major production releases annually in a high-stakes vehicle design environment with distributed system dependencies.
  • Consolidated legacy launchers into a unified modern platform via JavaFX GUI development for EnginFrame NICE.
  • Mentored engineers to deliver a Python-based Sonar API reporting tool, saving 100+ hours annually.

Software Engineer, Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

2016 – 2019

  • Prevented hundreds of failed HPC jobs by re-architecting a Java CLI submission system ahead of schedule.
  • Reduced 3K lines of Java code while remediating security vulnerabilities, completing work in one month instead of six.
  • Integrated new functionality into a Classic ASP web application during infrastructure migration, maintaining compliance.
  • Saved 5+ hours runtime per job for Maxwell electric applications by resolving hung jobs through vendor collaboration.

Software Engineer, Customer Care and Aftersales

2015 – 2016

  • Reduced organizational costs by $200K+ annually by replacing external contractors and building an IBM DataStage ETL framework.
  • Consolidated 12 disparate databases into one during migration from IBM DB2 to Oracle.

Software Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering IT

2014 – 2015

  • Led UI development for an AngularJS and Spring MVC web app used across 100+ global assembly plants.
  • Archived 40K+ files with HP QTP, retiring a manufacturing app without business disruption.

Education

Texas State University
Master’s in Computer Science, 3.92 GPA — 2021
Certificate in Computer Science, 3.86 GPA — 2019

Indiana University
Bachelor of Science in Public Affairs, 3.94 GPA, Highest Distinction — 2013

Certifications

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner
Certified Jenkins Engineer
CodePath Intermediate Software Engineering

Projects

  • Developed an AI for checkers in C++, implementing Minimax and Alpha-Beta Pruning.
  • Led Verilog development in a 5-stage pipelined CPU co-simulation project using Python MyHDL.
  • Built a Lambda expression parser using JavaCC for evaluating lambda calculus expressions.
  • Implemented secure password hashing and salting techniques using PBKDF2.
  • Designed ctl.borislavsabotinov.com for evaluating Computational Tree Logic expressions using Firestore and JavaCC.

Technical Skills

Languages
Java, SQL, JavaScript, Bash, C

Platforms
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Azure, Azure Bot Service, Databricks, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Google Cloud Run

Data
PostgreSQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Neo4j, Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database

Architecture & Infrastructure
Spring Boot, Terraform, Helm, Apache Maven, CI/CD, Event-driven services, RAG pipelines

Military Service

31B Military Police, United States Army (Secret Clearance)
2008 – 2016

  • Awarded Army Commendation for service in Afghanistan (OEF/OND).
  • Supported counterinsurgency and intelligence operations in a Forward Tactical Operations Center.