2019
High school & Glasgow
Graduated from First English Language School in Sofia, started at the University of Strathclyde, and worked my first job in a Sofia coffee shop.
Developer, designer, writer
Building tools for focus, health, and creative work.
I'm Yassen Shopov — I ship web products, design in Notion and Figma, and write about life engineering. This page is the short version of how I got here.
My journey
2019 — today
2020
Digital art & web projects
Launched kofiscrib, built early websites, and started the Life Engineering newsletter while navigating COVID from Glasgow back home.
2021
First tech job
Returned to Glasgow for biomedical engineering while landing my first tech role at Bulgarian ed-tech startup Boom.dev.
2022
Independence & Nuvei
Gap year from uni, moved into my own place in Sofia, and joined Nuvei as a front-end developer.
2023–2024
Graduation & balance
Part-time at Nuvei, dissertation year in Glasgow, and graduating with a 2:1 from Strathclyde.
Late 2024
TalentSight
Joined friends from high school at TalentSight to build AI-powered recruitment tooling.
2025
Creative revival
Refocused on public writing, health, and side projects — including client work like eculink.io.
What I do
Skills
Web development
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Design
UI/UX, digital illustration, Notion systems
Content
Technical writing, video, social storytelling