Experience

  1. Enterprise Architect — CellPoint Digital, Sofia
    Sep 2022 — Present · Remote
    • Maintained reliability and scalability of payment orchestration platform used by global airlines and digital merchants.
    • Mentored new engineers in operational best practices and production incident handling.
    • Led cross-team design discussions and alignment on platform modernization initiatives.
    • 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.
  2. Senior Engineer — ForMotiv
    Sep 2021 — Sep 2022 · Remote
    • 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.
  3. Team Lead — Concord EU
    Sep 2020 — Sep 2021 · On Site
    • 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.
    • 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
  4. Team Lead | Senior Full-Stack Developer — SimpleSite, Sofia/Copenhagen
    Jun 2011 — Aug 2020 · On Site
    • 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.
  5. Team Lead — Infragistics, Sofia
    Jan 2010 — Jun 2011 · On Site
    • Led a team of 5 engineers. Core responsibilities: design specs, usability, code reviews, hiring, training, customer escalations.
  6. Member of Technical Staff — VMware, Sofia
    Nov 2007 — Jan 2010 · On Site
    • Developed features for the vSphere .NET client; code reviews and bug-fixing.
  7. Software Engineer — Sciant, Sofia
    Jan 2006 — Nov 2007 · On Site
    • Developed networking features using C++ for Akonix L7 Enterprise Appliance