24 Bozhidar’s Story
Meet Bozhidar Klouchek, shown in figure 24.1. Bozhidar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science with Industrial Experience in 2024. During his degree he did internships and placements at the University of Oslo, cantarus.com and Imago (the student software company) before taking a graduate role at recourseai.com in Manchester.
Figure 24.1: Bozhidar Klouchek linkedin.com/in/bozhidar-klouchek-56449a18b. Picture re-used from LinkedIn with permission, thanks Bozhidar.
Listen to the episode by clicking Play ▶️ below, or subscribing wherever you get your podcasts, see section 21.2. An annotated and edited transcript of the audio is shown below.
24.1 What’s Your Story Bozhidar?
An edited podcast transcript will appear here in due course. In the meantime, an un-edited, raw machine-generated transcript can be found here with highlights from One Tune, One Book, One Podcast and One Film shown below.
24.2 One Tune
For his music, Bozhidar chose Öp by Turkish artist Tarkan, see figure 24.2.
Figure 24.2: Tarkan Tevetoğlu and is a German-born Turkish singer-songwriter. He has been a prominent figure of pop music, recognised both in Turkey and worldwide. Portrait of Tarkan by Hakki Topcu on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/ApGj 🇹🇷
We also talked about the Bulgarian music played at the unicsmcr.com Computer Science ball, especially Sen Trope by Azis, see figure 24.3.
Figure 24.3: Azis (Азис) is a Bulgarian recording artist of Romani ethnicity. Azis initially rose to prominence in Eastern Europe performing songs mostly in chalga, a genre which can be described as the Bulgarian rendition of pop-folk. Portrait by Azis Online via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/ApGz 🇧🇬
24.3 One Book
For his book, Bozhidar chose The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, see figure 24.4
Figure 24.4: The Thursday Murder Club is a 2020 crime novel, the debut novel by Richard Osman. (Osman 2020) It is the first instalment in his Thursday Murder Club series. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org ☠️
24.4 One Podcast
For his podcast, Bozhidar chose The Basement Yard podcast
24.5 One Film
For his film, Bozhidar chose A Haunting in Venice, see figure 24.5
Figure 24.5: A Haunting in Venice is a 2023 American mystery film produced and directed by Kenneth Branagh from a screenplay by Michael Green, loosely based on the 1969 Agatha Christie novel Hallowe’en Party. It is a sequel to Death on the Nile (2022) and is the third film in which Branagh stars as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org
24.6 It started with Minecraft
During the podcast we talked about where Bozhidar’s interest in Computer Scienc came from. Minecraft was a part of that. (Klouchek 2023)
24.7 Studio Selfie
Bozhidar shared this selfie from the studio, see figure 24.6
Figure 24.6: A selfie from the Coding Your Future studio, a slightly noisier place than the usual location 🤳
24.9 Disclaimer
⚠️ Coding Caution ⚠️
Please note these transcripts are generated with speech to text software and are not perfect word-for-word transcriptions. Some speech disfluency has been manually removed and links, cross references and pictures have been manually added for clarification. Extra (non-quoted) words are given in brackets like this: (some text added afterwards).