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Experience isn't measured in years — it's measured in the complexity you've survived.

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Nexo

Jul 2022 — Sep 2025 (3 years 3 months)

Director Of Engineering @ Nexo

Sofia, Bulgaria

Leading the engineering department efforts for the "Trading Strategies" area. Provided unified IT vision and strategy for building HFT systems in hybrid co-located multi cloud/bare metal environment with custom network routing. Oversaw all IT operations, including vendor contracts, cost optimizations, infrastructure management, compliance certifications/audits and security.

IT Strategy HFT Cloud Architecture Cost Optimization Compliance
Feb 2022 — Jul 2022 (6 months)

Senior Engineering Manager @ Nexo

Sofia, Bulgaria

Created and managed the Architecture & Infrastructure Teams. Provided vision to enable systems to scale with market and business requirements. Introduced processes to identify and control cloud costs. Worked closely with Product Department to plan architectural runway, identify non-functional requirements and address technical debt.

Green Field Cloud Cost Management Architecture Planning
Oct 2020 — Feb 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Software Architect @ Nexo

Sofia, Bulgaria

Participated and helped design first trading products for retail and institutional clients. Led the infrastructure and system design decisions along with setting necessary technical guidelines and processes to grow the team from ten to more than a hundred engineers.

System Design Trading Systems Infrastructure Technical Guidelines

Adcash

Mar 2016 — Sep 2020 (4 years 7 months)

System Architect @ Adcash

Tallinn, Estonia

Acting member of the IT management board. Led initiatives related to TOGAF framework and architectural governance, Agile at Scale (SAFe) planning and certifications, GDPR compliance directives, OWASP audits and cloud cost optimizations in GCE.

TOGAF SAFe GDPR OWASP GCE
Feb 2015 — Mar 2016 (1 year 2 months)

Senior Software Engineer @ Adcash

Sofia, Bulgaria

Working on the core adserving engine, real-time-bidding network integrations and the event driven system, responsible for all conversions and user generated events.

RTB Event-Driven Architecture Adtech

MadBid.com

Aug 2014 — Feb 2015 (7 months)

Software Developer @ MadBid.com

Sofia, Bulgaria

Refactored the legacy codebase and helped the team adopt modern API-first development and TDD/BDD design principles.

API Design TDD BDD

PEER 1 Hosting

Nov 2013 — Aug 2014 (10 months)

System Developer @ PEER 1 Hosting

Sofia, Bulgaria

Member of the R&D team building a proprietary cloud hosting solution. Developed systems related to provisioning and lifecycle management of infrastructure and their relation to back office systems.

Cloud Hosting Provisioning Infrastructure Management

Education

2010 — 2014

New Bulgarian University

Bachelor of Science (BS), Network Programming

Member of the Competitive Programming Team & The Bulgarian Academy of Science