Iliya Nedelchev

I'm a developer who's been at this for over a decade — mostly building the kind of backend systems nobody thinks about until they break.

These days I lead a small .NET team at ZigZag Global, where a lot of the job is keeping services fast, sane, and cheap to run at a scale where every line of code has a price tag. The work I actually look forward to is the messy kind: a problem nobody's cracked yet, a system that falls over the moment real traffic shows up.

Somewhere along the way curiosity took me sideways: a PhD in AI and machine learning and, less obviously, a master's in psychology. It's an odd pairing on paper, but it turns out to be useful more often than you'd expect — especially anywhere people and systems meet.

When I'm not on client work, I build and open-source small .NET tools: a conversational-AI framework, a C# client for running local LLMs, that sort of thing. Mostly because I can't quite help it.

This blog is where the rest of it lands — half-formed thoughts, things I'm still chewing on, reflections from somewhere near the event horizon. Thanks for stopping by.