Daniel Stoilkovski
Geography teacher and self-taught developer. I build the things I need, then publish them.
About Me
Versatile professional with six years of sales experience at Neptun Makedonija and current Geography Teacher at Ilinden Elementary School. Has also worked remotely for a US company, handling customer support and crowdfunding fulfilment for buyers worldwide. Full-stack web developer who has shipped two live applications from scratch: a crypto asset tracker and rotator, and a QR-code restaurant menu built for real table service. Published author twice over: a memoir on a decade in Bitcoin, and a Valheim music mod carrying an original score. A pantry and shopping-list app is in active development. Passionate about combining technical excellence, education, and real-world impact.
Professional Experience
Geography Teacher
Ilinden Elementary School, Kriva Palanka
Sep 2024 - Present
On-site role in Northeastern Region, North Macedonia. Integrating modern AI tools into teaching practice.
Career Break
Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
Rebuilt the family home with a new roof and external facade insulation, sourcing materials and scheduling their delivery around the build, and renovated two rooms of the village house. Took the time deliberately, to settle on a direction, and chose teaching for the balance it offers.
Remote Customer Support & Fulfilment
Consumer products company, California, USA
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Worked remotely from North Macedonia, answering complaints and product questions in English for customers worldwide. Ran crowdfunding fulfilment through BackerKit, importing orders and rewards from Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, with tickets in Freshdesk and despatch through ShipRush. Chose packaging for unfamiliar combinations of items from their dimensions alone, to keep shipping costs down, coordinating with warehouse staff on every order.
Seasonal Agricultural Worker
Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Full strawberry cycle across glasshouse and open field: planting, pruning, laying drip irrigation, and picking. Cut lettuce in the fields and worked the packhouse, where throughput and accuracy set the pace. Labelled strawberry boxes for despatch to Morrisons supermarkets.
Consumer Electronics Salesman
Neptun Makedonija
Jul 2016 - 2022
Six years of continuous sales experience building customer relationships and driving retail sales.
Drilling Apprentice
GEING Krebs und Kiefer International & others Ltd, Skopje
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Geology research drilling in coal excavation and mudslide analysis. Hands-on field operations with strong safety focus.
Precision Carpenter
Interpal, Kriva Palanka
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
Detail-oriented furniture production and quality craftsmanship.
Notable Projects
Rotator Tool
2026 – PresentFull-featured Crypto Asset Tracker & Rotator web application built from scratch. Real-time Portfolio Signal, Rotation Opportunities, High Momentum scanner, Performance Leaderboard, and advanced Swap Calculator.
You, Me and BTC
2025Published memoir on a decade of Bitcoin, subtitled My Wins, Losses, & Lessons from a Decade in Bitcoin. An honest account of the early wins, the costly mistakes, and what living through bull runs and crashes does to a household rather than just a portfolio. Released on Kindle in August 2025, and the lived experience the Rotator Tool was built out of.
Kafana QR Menu
2026Phone-first digital restaurant menu designed for QR-code table service. Nine categories from grilled meats to wine, expandable dish cards with photos and prices, a live order cart, suggested pairings, and a bill splitter for up to twelve guests. Built as a single self-contained page in Macedonian.
Scan to open the menu
Pantry Cauldron
2026 – PresentIn development
Mobile app that keeps track of what is in your pantry, warns you before food spoils, suggests recipes from the ingredients you already have, and turns whatever is missing into a shopping list. Built on React Native and Expo over a Supabase backend, with recipe data from a third-party food API.
Live preview • Source on GitHub
Valheim Music Plus
2026Published music mod for the survival game Valheim, released on Thunderstore under the handle Emberskald. It replaces the game's soundtrack with an original score that follows the player, switching between nine biomes, the home base and boss encounters, with shuffle queues, fade transitions and resumption of the track a zone was left on. Built on the BepInEx modding framework; the score was composed with Suno and players can drop their own audio into the same folders.
On Thunderstore • Hear the full pack • Tracks on Suno
Balkan Lynx Preservation
2010University research project developing conservation strategy for Balkan Lynx (Lynx martinoi). Mapped habitat zones and migration routes using geographic analysis.
Univerzitet 'Sv. Kiril i Metodij', May to December
Education
Geography Teacher Education
Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij, Skopje
2006 – 2010 • Grade: 8.5/10
Beyond Work
Beekeeping
Twenty years of keeping hives. Seasonal work that punishes guesswork and cannot be rushed.
Generative tools
Music, images and video with Suno, Clipchamp and image models, and the prompting it takes to get a usable result. The score on the Valheim mod came out of this.
Video games
Which is where the modding started, and why the soundtrack needed writing in the first place.
Get In Touch
daniel.stoilkovski@hotmail.com
+389 75 800 105
Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia