Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 · 11 mos · Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria · Remote

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria · Hybrid

• VP of Engineering, leading the whole engineering organization and Sofia Site Lead

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• CTO-as-a-service, through CTO Quest

May 2023 – Sep 2023 · 4 mos

• CTO-as-a-service, through CTO Quest

Mar 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · World · Remote

• We guide companies to success by solving complex technical, people, process and organizational challenges.
• We provide CTO as a service.
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Jan 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sofia City, Bulgaria

• We are building technology that powers digital commerce for interior design brands around the world. DesignTechnologies is a Material Bank® company.
• Leading an engineering team of 35 people

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Limiter Partner / Investor at LAUNCHub

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Limiter Partner / Investor at all 3 Eleven funds: Eleven Capital, Eleven 2 & Eleven 3

Sep 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Lead engineering team of 60 people (including Product Management and Technical Support)

Jul 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

Jun 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Building great teams and amazing product!

Jun 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr · Sofia, Bulgaria

Jan 2019 – Aug 2025 · 6 yrs 7 mos

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

• Angel investing

Nov 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Connecto.ai mission is to connect businesses with people through AI-powered conversational interfaces.
• Acquired by Leanplum, June 2018

Sep 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Responsible for building (from scratch) and running a new engineering organization (60+ people) . The new organization is partnering with VMware Professional Services and delivering high quality engineering solutions to VMware Customers.

Nov 2013 – Sep 2014 · 10 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Leading a multi-national team of 140+ engineers working on vSphere Web Client and vCenter products.

Aug 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• Lead a group of ~100 engineers completely responsible for building the UI of the vCenter and vCloud Director product. This UI is probably the most complex Flex application ever built.
• My group consists of Development and QE engineers, spanning 3 locations.

Nov 2010 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sofia, Bulgaria

• As a QE Director, I was leading the whole Sofia QE organization (60-80 individuals) and was responsible for building high performing teams, uplifting the organization, defining the overall strategy for the organization, identifying tools and techniques for efficiency improvements, execution and delivery.

Oct 2008 – Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Sofia, Bulgaria

• As a staff engineers, I was responsible for leading the definition and the implementation of the vCloud API – open, platform independent, RESTful API that defines an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources in the cloud.

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

• As a Senior Manager R&D, I was responsible for managing and leading several teams and projects
• Site Recovery Manager team
• Part of the VC UI team
• Python UI

Feb 2002 – Oct 2007 · 5 yrs 8 mos

• Participation in the strategic management of the company
• Business Development and Sales activities
• Budgeting and Resource planning
• Client communication
• Requirements capturing and analysis
• Work Estimation, Project Planning and Control
• Team management
• Software design and engineering
• Software refactoring and performance optimizations
• Interviewing and Hiring
• Major projects:
• Blue Martini
• Team size: 15-20
• Technologies used in the project: Java, J2EE, SQL
• SAP ATS Audit
• Team size: 3
• Technologies used in the project: Java, JUnit, HttpUnit, SAP Java Application Server
• PostPath Server
• Team size: 10
• Technologies used in the project: MS .NET, .Net Remoting MAPI, CDO, OOM, COM, Active Directory, MS Exchange
• SeeSaw
• Team size: 4
• Technologies used in the project: Java 5, Spring, Hibernate, FreeMarker, Jasper, Tapestry, AJAX, POJO facade patterns
• Actional ASG/LG/SST
• Team size: 13
• Technologies used in the project: J2EE, XML, WebServices

Feb 2002 – Jul 2003 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Client communication
• Requirements capturing and analysis
• Project documentation
• Work Estimation, Project Planning and Control
• Team management
• Software design and engineering
• Software development – implementation, bug fixing, deployment, support
• Software refactoring and performance optimizations
• Interviewing and Hiring
• Major Projects
• Westbridge XMS
• Team size: 7 - 32
• Technologies used in the project: Java, JS, JSP, HTML, Struts, MVC, Servlet, XML, Web Services, SQL, JDBC, JMX, LDAP, HTTP/HTTPS/SSL, JMS (MqSeries), Install Shield, Install Anywhere
• Description: The Westbridge XML Message Server (XMS) is a high-performance, flexible security and XML processing gateway that enables organizations to succeed in their Web Services and SOA projects. It is an ancestor of Actional Security Gateway (ASG).
• Responsibilities: managing development and QA activities, requirements capturing, functional and design specification and project planning, development

Apr 1999 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Responsible for managing small team. Participated in development of:
• • InQMy Application Server - J2EE 100% Compatible Application server.
• • DBMS Service - Distributed Transactional Database System supporting isolation levels, save points, transaction timeouts, events, and fail-over recovery.
• • DbPool service - JDBC Connection pooling service.
• • IqLib - Generic data structure, algorithm and multithreading java library
• using following technologies:
• Java, JTS, JTA, EJB, JDBC, XML, Oracle, DB2, CORBA, RMI, IIOP

Nov 1998 – Mar 1999 · 4 mos

• Participated in implementation of:
• • Enterprise Bean Server – J2EE Application server
• • JNDI 1.2 implementation
• • LDAP Client and Server
• • Transactional Hierarchical Database System supporting fail over recovery
• Technologies: Java, JNDI, JTA, JDBC, XML, LDAP, RMI