Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs · Remote

• I was supporting Microsoft in decoupling Azure core services to run on the edge. I worked on the Azure to Edge and Azure offline systems architectures and was a founding member of the Azure Kubernetes Services Edge.
• I worked on the Azure to Edge, One Billion Connected Assets, and Azure for OpenAI programs.
• I industrialized Microsoft's products and solutions for ABB, Siemens, Maersk, Schindler, Roche, Equinor, and UBS.
• I built and operated a private 5G lab in Sofia. I owned my 5G Core and RAN, and I partnered with a local telco for the gNB.
• My work spanned across Data and AI; IoT, MR and Robotics; Global Partners, and OEMs organizations.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 3 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria · On-site

• We advise enterprise, industrial, and defense organizations on technology strategy, product innovation, and R&D execution.
• Our work focuses on helping companies navigate major technology transitions and translate emerging technologies into practical product, platform, and architecture decisions. We support organizations in moving from exploration to execution with clear engineering direction and disciplined delivery.
• We provide hands-on technical leadership across the full product lifecycle, assisting clients in bringing complex systems to market while minimizing technical and investment risk.
• Our role is to bridge strategic ambition with engineering reality, enabling innovation that is operationally viable, scalable, and commercially meaningful.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · United States · Remote

• I founded OA Digital, Inc. in 2017 to enhance office workers' well-being and productivity.
• We have built our hardware devices, advanced sensors, machine learning algorithms, and a software platform to manage workplace facilities based on employees' cognitive needs.
• We were accepted into the NVIDIA Inception accelerator program.
• Unfortunately, we did not achieve product-market fit by late 2018.
• I am proud of our work at OA Digital.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2017 · 13 yrs · Berlin, Germany · On-site

• I held various roles in my 13 years at Cisco. I led the creation of the Cisco IoT Innovation Center Germany "openBerlin", serving as the European engineering co-innovation lab for rapid prototyping with customers, evaluation, and productization of Cisco IoT technologies.
• My team and I built and ran in production the largest Cisco Metacloud Data Center, and I supported the product launch and a 25M$+ run rate as the EMEA field technical sponsor for edge and fog computing.
• I also led the partnership with the Startupbootcamp Berlin Smart Transportation and Energy startup accelerator and selected startups aligned with the Cisco strategy.
• As a CTO I brought IoT, Edge Computing, and technology strategy expertise early to European customers.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2004 · 3 yrs

• I worked for an Oil&Gas company, where I built and ran large scale IT and OT systems in production.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 · 1 yr

• I developed kernel modules for BSD and later for Linux. I began working with Cisco networking and rewrote significant portions of the BIND DNS and Sendmail SMTP code to enhance performance.