About Yoan-Daniel Malinov
Yoan-Daniel Malinov
Zdravey! I’m Yoan. I make stuff, mostly for fun, and I tend to start a new thing before the last one is done, so there are more half-finished projects here than I’d like to admit. By day I’m a software engineer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, working on Ada CS, but honestly most of what’s on this site is the stuff I make in my spare time - games, music, art, little tools for one very specific problem. Before that I spent about ten years at the University of Southampton (BSc, a PhD in VR, then a postdoc making a locative AR game for the Avebury Stone Circle).
Most of it is CC0, so if you find something useful, just take it. You don’t need to ask. If you make something with it, I’d love to see it!
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Timeline
Experience and education at a glance.
Experience
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Software Engineer – Ada Computer Science
Raspberry Pi Foundation · Jul 2026 – Present
Working on the Ada Computer Science platform, seconded to the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology.
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Research Fellow – LoGaCulture
University of Southampton · May 2023 – May 2026
Developed and evaluated a locative AR game for the Avebury Stone Circle as part of LoGaCulture.
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Student Demonstrator
University of Southampton · Oct 2019 – May 2023
Supported first-year programming labs and the COMP3218 Game Design & Development course.
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Android Developer – Intern
University of Southampton · Jul 2018 – Sep 2018
Built a computer-vision Android app to scan labels and speed up inventory workflows for a company.
Education
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PhD in Computer Science
University of Southampton · 2019 – 2025
Multi-modal co-located VR, and how playing together in the same room affects immersion and social presence.
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BSc Computer Science, First Class Honours
University of Southampton · 2016 – 2019
General Computer Science, with as much game development as I could squeeze in.
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High School Diploma - 5.89 GPA
Sofia High School of Mathematics (SMG) · 2011 – 2016
Specialized in Mathematics, Informatics, and English.
What I'm working on
A free platform for students and teachers learning computer science. I work on all of it, the React frontend and the Java backend.
Open project →A CC0 orange catgirl that anyone can use. I keep drawing her, making stickers and building stuff around her.
Open project →Passions & Experiments
- Story-driven games, especially ones that mess with you a bit, like The Stanley Parable, Undertale/Deltarune and Outer Wilds.
- Music on whatever’s nearby: drums, guitar, bass, keys, FL Studio, and sometimes drums in VR.
- Weird little ideas in games and AI, mostly to see if they work.
# What I believe
- Digital stuff can be copied for free, forever. Locking it up doesn’t make much sense to me.
- I think a lot of IP works like landlordism, just for ideas.
- You learn more from seeing the messy bits than the polished end result, so I leave them in.
- My own work is CC0. If I’ve used someone else’s library, their licence still applies, but my part is yours.
- Use my stuff however you want. You can sell it or change it, I don’t mind. I’d like to see what you do with it.