Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• As a Global Black Belt I'm a senior solution sales professional within Microsoft's enterprise sales organization with a strong technical background in the domain of Software Development workloads. I am focusing on expanding and deepening relationships and satisfaction with enterprise developers and engineering leads, building a compelling strategy for enhancing Developer Productivity GitHub and Azure.
• Technical intensity on DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, cloud-native application architecture (containers, microservices, API management), Kubernetes, GitHub.

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Build, migrate and modernize applications on Microsoft Azure. Working across sales, operations, marketing, and partner landscape to ensure a cohesive workflow that drives adoption of Microsoft Azure services in 100+ countries with clear business outcome.
• My focus is on migrating .NET, Java, and OSS applications, building net new cloud native applications with Azure PaaS and Azure Kubernetes and driving developer productivity with GitHub and GitHub Co-pilot.
• I’m working with technical and business decision makers as well as in-house and boarder developer communities.

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Azure Developer Audience Lead / Go to Market Manager

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Leading the Open Source on Azure business for 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. driving Go-To-Market strategy to deliver customer & partner success, resulting in market penetration and utilization of Azure OSS portfolio of services.

Apr 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo

• Working with Microsoft partners and customers on building and migrating application using Azure. Focus on apps and infrastructure: DevOps, Azure DevOps, GitHub, App service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containers, Web Applications, MLOps and DataOps.
• Helping partners in consolidating and shaping owned intellectual property into repeatable solutions and product offerings.

Jul 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Represent Microsoft to the partner ecosystem, communicate the tech strategy, vision and bring partners along in the digital transformation journey. Work with portfolio of managed partners to deliver relevant software products, repeatable solutions and services on Microsoft platform.
• Tech Evangelist (TE) builds trusted CXO relationships and manage technical engagements with partners. Drive partner technical qualification process and gain/maintain a strong understanding of the partner business model and strategies.
• TE is responsible for the successful skills and talent development of partners to provide solutions and services. Facilitate the solution development process, ensuring the partner capacity to deliver with defined milestones.
• Managing the partners/solutions portfolio prioritize across practices as required and focus on long-term sustainable growth. Participate in Techiest, Hackathons to identify tech opportunities. Engage on initial customer opportunities to overcome blockers and lead to successful end customer deployments.

Jun 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

• Working in DX team in Multi Country region. Talking to startups, ISV, students and tech communities to drive broad awareness, up-skill and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies. Focused on OSS, Web Apps, IoT and DevOps. Speaking and presenting at events, coding, prototyping, discussing technology.

Dec 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• As a CTO of Intracol Technologies I’m interacting with the company technical and management team in the identification, evaluation and development of technical solutions. As part of the management team I’m involved in guiding and developing our technological and business strategy as well as supporting our pre-sales team - meeting prospective customers and outlining technical solutions. As part of the technical team I’m actively involved in assessing new technologies, developing prototypes and delivering projects.

Nov 2010 – Dec 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Promote alignment and cohesion of team(s) by sharing knowledge of the product,
• technology, architecture, technical direction and alignment with customers and Cisco strategy.
• Help resolve technical tradeoffs, weighing both the benefits and drawbacks of technical
• solution options tempered by both operational and business considerations, and make
• decisions or recommendations for the best technical direction.
• Act as the external technical interface for the product or technology area. Articulate technical issues to both technical and non‐technical audiences that do not share
• the same level of expertise in the technology or product area.
• Member of Cisco Patent Committee for the Collaboration Portfolio, responsible for reviewing and evaluating parent submissions.

Jan 2010 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Meet with clients in gathering project and product requirements. Provide a technical solution and high-level architecture. Work on the initial estimation in terms of people and resources required for the project.
• Manage teams and projects on a day-to-day basis. Review and organize product and project development schedules. Communicate the schedules and progress with clients.
• Work on technological solution prototype and support daily software development effort

Sep 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• I have started software company focused on Software Development Consulting and development of Internet and Intranet applications. I'm responsible for organizing the entire company workflow, starting from meetings with clients to organizing the software development and all support activities. I'm also the IT architect of the company’s internal product for rapid Internet and Intranet application development called RUEDA.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Support pre-sales activities by providing technical outlines or products shortlist
• Meet with clients in order to understand client needs and outline requirements
• Review existing clients application stack. Based on the acquired information review and shortlist existing IBM solutions, products and projects and propose and document solutions.
• Create technical prove of concept (POC), depending on POC size either by myself or leading small development team. Document the process and present results to internal steering committee and/or client.
• Participate in various project development and delivery phases by creating specifications, documentation, models or software modules and prototypes.

Jun 2000 – Apr 2007 · 6 yrs 10 mos

• Consult and support the sales department
• Organize and optimize the internal project workflow
• Supervise and technically lead teams on day-to-day basis
• Define deadlines and deliverables for established projects
• Build technical architecture and specification for upcoming projects • Ensure the quality of the final product
• Research and development over new technologies
• Assign internal training projects

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

• Software development
• Design and create news publishing system and web portal
• Support the online publication of printed magazine and newspaper