Ilko Kacharov

CEO

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria13 yrs 2 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Co-founded and led Juma, an innovative AI marketing platform.
  • Built a production prototype in just one week.
  • Led a 15-person engineering team with high release velocity.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and MarTech expert with strong leadership in AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software ArchitectureArtificial Intelligence (ai)

Other Skills

Technical LeadershipSystems DesignEngineering ManagementContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Team BuildingDistributed SystemsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)DevOpsTerraformAmazon Web Services (AWS)Docker ProductsReact.jsPHPMySQLZend Framework 2

About

Co-Founder and CTO at Juma. We build AI that takes a real marketing task and finishes it — research, content, distribution, all of it. You give Juma the brief. Juma runs the work. That's Juma Flows. I've been in software for 20 years, working across e-commerce, telco, and email deliverability before co-founding Camplight Dev Cooperative — projects for clients including Volkswagen and Yale. That's where I met Iliya, Juma's CEO. When ChatGPT dropped, the three of us — Iliya, Yavor, and me — made a call: what we were building wouldn't survive it. A month of whiteboards. Dozens of experiments. One Friday afternoon I checked domain availability, found team-gpt.com for $10, bought it, showed the team. That was the moment we all knew. One week later: production prototype. Since then we've rebuilt the platform multiple times. MongoDB to PostgreSQL. Vercel to Dockerized AWS for enterprise self-hosting. Single-vendor to multi-vendor, multi-model, multi-modal. I built the first Dockerized enterprise prototype solo over Christmas 2023, same week my son Zachary was born. Three months later users were on the new beta. The team is 15 engineers now. We ship 65+ PRs per release, multiple times a week. Aurora RDS running tens of millions of messages. The principle hasn't changed: no rollback, only roll forward. If you're evaluating Juma for your team, the infrastructure behind it is production-grade and it gets better every week. → juma.ai/flows

Experience

13 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Juma

CTO & Co-Founder

Nov 2025Present · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Co-founded Juma after recognizing the AI inflectionpoint in late 2022 that went from whiteboard experiment to a working prototype in production in one week; the product now serves tens of thousands of users and ompanies across the world.
  • Built and lead a 15-person product engineering team that ships 65+ PRs per relase at multiple releases per week, maintaining qualiy at high velocity under a "no rollback, only roll frward" philosophy
  • Building the agentic stack to move Juma in a context management system that acts as the technical foundation for Juma Flows
Software ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipSystems DesignEngineering ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)

3veta

Chief Technology Officer

Jan 2023Jul 2023 · 6 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Developing and implementing the technical strategy and architecture to support the overall business objectives.
  • Providing technical leadership to the team and being responsible for the technical aspects of the company's products and services.

Подкрепи.бг | podkrepi.bg

Technical Lead Developer

Nov 2020Aug 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Non-profit maintainer of the open-source charity project Podkrepi.bg

Camplight

Co-Owner and Techpreneur

Feb 2019Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · Bulgaria

  • TypeScript / Next.js / React / Material UI
  • tRPC / Nest.js / Node
  • Prisma / PostgreSQL
  • GoLang / GraphQL / PgSQL / Microservices
  • DevOps / AWS / Docker / Docker Compose / Kubernetes

Onvey

CTO

Sep 2018Feb 2019 · 5 mos · Sofia

  • Technically supporting business growth
  • Async rendering of historical website captures via message queues
  • Time scheduling engine based on RRule
  • SSO Integrations
  • Node.js communication server

Proxiad

Team Lead

Jun 2014Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Sofia

  • Leading a development team of 10 developers for 4.5 years
  • Technical lead on various internal projects using Zend Framework
  • Conducted 100+ technical interviews.
  • Facilitate performance review process and feedback cycles.
  • Worked closely with the HR business partners.

Mailjet

PHP Lead Developer

Jun 2014Sep 2018 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Sofia

  • Migration of the customer facing platform from scratch to Zend Framework 2.
  • Created CLI tools to manage recurring system events and event queue consumers.
  • Built event driven flow in the applications.
  • Migration to PHP7

Opencode systems ltd.

Research and Development Engineer

Oct 2011Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Realized projects at OpenCode Systems:
  • Control Panel using Yii Framework for company products and services
  • Product and Service Statistics Web
  • Customer Services Statistics Web
  • Network Cluster Web
  • Platform Commands Web
  • Call Data Record Processing System
  • Opencode Systems is a telecommunications solution provider, dedicated to open systems for the mobile network. Opencode makes network technology that is invisible to consumers but underlies many of the mobile services they use. Opencode solutions are deployed by mobile operators in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and America.
  • Research in the field of data processing and analysis, technologies and tools.
  • Developing and maintaining a statistics processing and web framework.
  • Research and development of web modules based on Yii Framework.
  • Developing Proof of concept for different in-company projects.
  • Working with and supporting foreign teams and customers in different locations and timezones
  • Developing service statistics for mobile operators all over the world:
  • Umobile(Malaysia), Tunisie Telecom, Mobifone Vietnam, Maldives, Mobilink Pakistan, Globul
  • Bulgaria, Sisteer(France), Vodafone Egypt, Wataniya Telecom Kuwait, AlMadar Libya, AsiaCell Iraq

Tectrade bulgaria

Web Designer & PHP Developer

May 2008Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Varna, Bulgaria

  • Main activities and responsibilities Maintenance of computer systems, keeping software and hardware in immaculate condition.
  • Preparation of marketing strategies and advertising campaigns.
  • Creating advertising concepts and designs: banners, business cards, brochures, advertising posters, signs and billboards.
  • I've created, developed and integrated user information system for processing and analysis of company sales.
  • In part this system is an advanced admin panel for the website of the company. The system supports product availability and sales in the real shops and the actual quantity is updated in the online store.
  • Design, develop, deploy, and maintain database.
  • This system includes modules for:
  • Establishing and maintaining a catalogue of products;
  • Maintenance of information database for the supply of various products;
  • Maintenance of information database for employees of the chain;
  • Processing the transfers of products between the sites of the chain;
  • Generating orders to suppliers;
  • Generating reports for the availability or unavailability of products;
  • Generate stock and sales reports.
  • Generate reports for company's accounting.
  • The integration of information system includes training personnel to work with it.
  • Managing web sales, customer care and spedition.

Emir

Web designer & developer

Apr 2007Apr 2008 · 1 yr · Varna

  • Inculcating new ideas in the design & structure of the websites.
  • Developing websites by user requirements and setting up MySQL database structures.
  • Appraising the customers and taking care of their needs.
  • Improving and elaborating my own knowledge by reading latest articles and works.

Marketgroup

Web designer & developer

Oct 2006Mar 2007 · 5 mos

  • Creation of flash websites, banners and animations.
  • Creation of PHP websites in addition to the customer needs.

Education

Technical University of Varna

Bachelor — Telecommunications engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

University of Economics - Varna

Master — Informatics

Jan 2010Jan 2012

SOU St Kliment Ohridski

High school — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2005

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