Updates, stories, and lessons from our work at the intersection of technology and business.
We send this list to every developer who interviews with us, including the ones we say no to. If someone spends an hour on our task and an hour on a call with us, they have earned something back, and honest feedback plus a real reading list is what we have to give. Here is the list, unchanged from the version we send by email, with the reasoning I usually only give on the call.
Why we hire problem solvers, not order takers, and what actually matters now that AI can write the code.
Last week, our CEO Theodosios Kariotis and CTO Goce Bonev represented ThinkWeb at TechArena 2026 in Stockholm, where they joined entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders from across the Nordics and Europe.
Choosing the wrong PHP development company can cost you thousands in wasted development and forced rewrites. The right partner, however, builds software that scales with your business for years to come.
In software development, the numbers given early are usually wrong. Not slightly wrong, but sometimes by months. Early estimates are based on assumptions rather than facts. At that stage, key details are still unclear, dependencies are not fully understood, and real constraints have not yet been discovered. Once development starts, reality challenges these assumptions. We see this pattern repeatedly across software projects, technology stacks, team sizes, and industries. It is far less common in off-the-shelf product implementations.
Robert Jacobi, CXO at Blackwall, and Goce Bonev, CTO at ThinkWeb, joined the stage at WordCamp Sofia to talk about the growing security challenges facing WordPress sites. They focused on how both application and infrastructure layers are being affected by more advanced and automated threats, especially those powered by AI.
Goce Bonev, CTO at ThinkWeb, presented a practical guide to building healthcare applications with a high level of security and compliance with regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR at the November Bulgaria PHP meetup.
From compliance-as-code to space software, AWS Community Day Bulgaria 2025 showed how teams are using automation, AI, and cloud tools to solve real problems. The event brought together developers, engineers, and business leaders who build systems that are secure, efficient, and ready to scale. The talks covered many topics, from cloud compliance and cost control to AI workflows and real-time data from satellites
On November 11, 2025, ThinkWeb’s CTO Goce Bonev will be the speaker at the Bulgaria PHP and Laravel Bulgaria User Group Meetup, presenting a practical session on building secure healthcare applications with PHP and AWS.
We are looking for a talented and motivated Full-Stack Developer who is eager to learn, grow, and tackle exciting challenges. Join our team and work on high-impact projects across healthcare, 3D/AR, insurance, logistics, and construction, developing scalable, data-driven platforms, real-time systems, and cloud-based solutions. You’ll play a key role in shaping well-architected, high-performance applications that make a real impact.
Our CTO, Goce Bonev, took part in the Connect Nordics Sofia Business Bash, a workshop and networking event focused on business expansion into the Nordic markets. During the sessions, he shared thoughts on how Bulgarian software companies can strengthen their competitiveness by specializing in industries such as healthcare, insurance, and finance.
ThinkWeb has been named a Clutch Global and Clutch Champion winner for 2023! This recognition places us in the 10% companies globally on Clutch. It's a moment of pride and joy for our entire team, and we're grateful to everyone who has been a part of our journey.
We are looking for an experienced UI/UX designer to help us redesign the UI of an existing VR/AR platform before the commercial launch.
We are looking for talented and motivated frontend developers with Vue.js to join the team responsible for designing, developing, and deploying an AR/VR platform that leverages 360 photography to capture reality through the eyes and actions of professionals.
On January 13, 2022, our co-founder and CTO, Goce Bonev, was the speaker at the Bulgaria PHP User Group Meetup, where he presented how ThinkWeb adopted Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and how this shift transformed both our architecture and development culture. As a custom development company, we've worked on large-scale platforms where structure and clarity matter as much as speed. This experience led us to re-examine how we design systems, from frameworks and layers to how business rules live inside the code. The talk shared that journey, what we learned, and how those lessons continue to shape our work today.
We are looking for talented and motivated people who are eager to learn and further develop their skills, to join a team responsible for designing, developing, and deploying solutions of high visibility and strategic importance for clients in multiple interesting industries, foreign and domestic.
We are looking for talented and motivated people who are eager to learn and further develop their skills, to join a small team responsible for designing, developing, and deploying solutions of high visibility and strategic importance for clients in multiple interesting industries, foreign and domestic.
On May 18 2021, our co-founder and CTO, Goce Bonev, was the speaker at the BGPHP Virtual Meetup to discuss how we approach secure development at ThinkWeb. The session turned into a deep, practical conversation on mindset, design principles, and the patterns that make software resilient when handling sensitive data.
Full disclosure on how ThinkCMS secures passwords and how they are stored in the database.
One of the newest additions to ThinkCMS v5 is the GDPR module, created to streamline the technical implementations required by the Regulation.