Venetsian Jakimov

Venetsian Jakimov

Founder and manager of DotCOM.Services · Montana, Bulgaria

Venetsian Jakimov has been building for the web since 1998 and founded DotCOM.Services (Дот Ком Сървисес ЕООД) in 2008. He still does the engineering himself: PHP back-ends and custom CMS, WordPress and WooCommerce stores, Next.js front-ends, the Linux servers they run on, and the Google Ads accounts that bring them customers.

LinkedIn · GitHub · venetsian.com

Background

  1. 1998First public web project: a digital portfolio for the sculptor Ivaylo Hristov, a year after he started programming as a hobby.
  2. 2003–2005IT Manager at International Creative Metal, Inc. in New York: rebuilt the company's IT around centralized storage and remote access, and ran its e-commerce site.
  3. 20066th place worldwide at the SEO World Championships. Takes over e-commerce marketing for the hosting provider MaiaHost.com: Google Ads acquisition, SEO and its affiliate program.
  4. 2008B.Sc. in Computer Science from the American University in Bulgaria, with the award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Computer Science. Founds DotCOM.Services in Montana.
  5. 2017Starts consulting for HoverDream Ltd (Varna) on WooCommerce development and Google Ads.
  6. TodayArchitect of NextAI SEM, the AI commerce platform operated by DotCOM.Services, and author of the open-source WP-Guardian server security tool.

What he works on

  • PHP 8 APIs and custom CMS / CRM systems on MariaDB
  • WordPress and WooCommerce development, speed and security
  • Next.js and React front-ends, technical SEO and structured data
  • Linux hosting operations: OpenLiteSpeed, Apache, mail servers, firewalls and monitoring
  • Google Ads (Search, Shopping, Demand Gen, remarketing), Merchant Center feeds, GA4 and Google Tag Manager

Open source

WP-Guardian

Real-time security monitoring and automated threat response for WordPress hosting servers. It watches web, mail and SSH logs, blocks attackers through the server firewall (CSF, firewalld, nftables, MikroTik, pfSense) and reports over Telegram. MIT licensed.

Certifications

  • Google Ads certification — Google Skillshop, 2023
  • Google Analytics 4 certification — Google Skillshop, 2023

Selected client work

Case studies from stores and websites built and maintained by DotCOM.Services: E-commerce portfolio, Websites portfolio.

Languages

Bulgarian (native), English (fluent).

Work with DotCOM.Services