Experience
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Enterprise Architect — CellPoint Digital, Sofia
- Took ownership of platform reliability, scalability, and architectural evolution of a global payment orchestration platform used by tier-1 airlines and merchants.
- Acted as senior technical partner to product and leadership, translating business roadmap into executable architectural initiatives.
- Led cross-team alignment on modernisation, security, and cloud strategy, while mentoring engineers on operational excellence and incident response.
- Ensured platform security and compliance alignment across cloud environments (GCP).
- Supported transition of legacy services toward modernized, containerized deployments.
- Stack: Golang (Gin), Protobuf, Temporal, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Angular, OpenAPI, Google Cloud.
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Technical Founder — AlertMap (Personal Initiative)
- Designed and operated a real-time event ingestion, scoring, and visualization platform end-to-end, covering architecture, infrastructure, and delivery. Used to validate scalable patterns in real-time event ingestion and decision-making systems.
- Build out a technical roadmap for the product and company
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Senior Engineer — ForMotiv
- Served as a senior backend engineer contributing to data ingestion, API performance, and integration reliability.
- Enhanced reliability and maintainability of production APIs handling real-time behavioral analytics data.
- Optimized event ingestion pipeline to improve processing latency and reduce data loss under peak traffic conditions.
- Supported smooth schema migrations and implemented database monitoring to improve query performance and stability.
- Proposed refactoring patterns and CI improvements adopted by the engineering team to stabilize delivery cadence.
- Collaborated with the CTO to evaluate microservice boundaries and data modeling approaches.
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Team Lead — Concord EU
- Led a cross-functional team of 15+ engineers (backend, frontend, QA, DevOps) delivering large-scale software solutions for enterprise clients in finance, travel, and retail.
- Experience inheriting externally built systems and transitioning ownership to in-house teams, improving delivery predictability and technical quality.
- Directed technical delivery and architecture for multiple concurrent projects, ensuring adherence to high standards of quality, security, and performance.
- Championed modernization initiatives, including migration toward microservices, containerization, and CI/CD automation, significantly shortening release cycles.
- Mentored and coached engineers, established coding standards, and introduced review practices that improved maintainability and onboarding efficiency.
- Worked closely with project managers, architects, and client stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable technical plans and deliverables.
- Contributed to company-wide best practices in delivery management and architecture governance.
- Delivered the new Blue Cross Kansas City health claims platform to production on schedule and within budget.
- Tech Stack: MS Azure, C#, .NET Framework Core
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Team Lead | Senior Full-Stack Developer — SimpleSite, Sofia/Copenhagen
- Architected and operated core systems for a global website builder (200k–400k monthly users): mail, caching, DB sharding, CDN, design framework, CI/CD.
- Drove Angular applications, performance, and reliability; recruited and mentored engineers.
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Team Lead — Infragistics, Sofia
- Led a team of 5 engineers. Core responsibilities: design specs, usability, code reviews, hiring, training, customer escalations.
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Member of Technical Staff — VMware, Sofia
- Developed features for the vSphere .NET client; code reviews and bug-fixing.
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Software Engineer — Sciant, Sofia
- Developed networking features using C++ for Akonix L7 Enterprise Appliance