About Me
My name is Peter Shangov, I am Bulgarian and I currently live in Sofia.
My university major is in English and I am an avid reader and lover of literature. Professionally, I worked several years as a translator and editor of legal and business texts (which is a little bit ironic given that I chose the liberal arts in college precisely because I used to hate law and economics). Since 2006 I have been running my own small translation business.
I also grok software and I am a self-learned hacker. Since translation became for me a side business in which I mostly play the manager's role, I have had two steady IT jobs doing project management, and I have recently been doing some freelance consulting and development. For a person with a passion for language and literature, my programming language of choice is, no surprise here, perl.
There are two NGO's I work with, doing both IT and non-IT stuff. The Program for the Development of the Judicial System works on various projects to improve the administration of the judiciary in Bulgaria. The Nikola Ganchev Foundation is a project to publish a collection of music and a method for studying kaval, a Bulgarian folk instrument, by one of the greatest kaval players of all times – and a former teacher of mine, Nikola Ganchev.
To complete the picture of my diverse persona, I am a huge music fan (R.E.M. has unfailingly been my favourite band over the past 15 years), and I have even had several doomed attempts to become a performer myself (starting with a rap band I formed in elementary school). I was recently contaminated with an unhealthy interest towards the “self-improvement” genre (Stephen Covey, Anthony Robbins, Tony Humphreys, Robert Cialdini, Michael Gladwell, and the like), and in particular with the study of excellence and the circumstances enable individuals to consistently perform at peak levels. And last but not least, I am also crazy about adventure sports and long-term travel.
These are my CPAN modules. For those interested in a more detailed professional history, here's my full LinkedIn profile. These are my photos on Flickr (I am not much of a picture-taking person). My Facebook profile name is pshangov, but I rarely use the site. I don't do Twitter.
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