Experience

Noble Hire

• Bulgaria
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  Sofia Noble Hire is a referral based job board connecting the world’s most promising tech talent with cutting edge companies. The company officially launched the Bulgarian job board in April 2019, starting with the profiles of more than 25 of the best tech companies in Sofia. As a Chief Technical Officer, my goal is to collaborate closely with the product team, to lead and help the engineering team build the Noble Hire platform and data processing solutions, as well as to share my… Show more Noble Hire is a referral based job board connecting the world’s most promising tech talent with cutting edge companies. The company officially launched the Bulgarian job board in April 2019, starting with the profiles of more than 25 of the best tech companies in Sofia. As a Chief Technical Officer, my goal is to collaborate closely with the product team, to lead and help the engineering team build the Noble Hire platform and data processing solutions, as well as to share my experience in running software companies and give insights about assessing, employing and sustainably motivating engineering talent. Show less



hacker.works

• Bulgaria
• Software Development

• CEO

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  Sofia

• President & COO

  • Jan 2016 - Aug 2017

  Sofia, Bulgaria



ai.works

• CEO

  • Sep 2016 - Jan 2018

  Sofia, Bulgaria We build bespoke solutions using machine learning technologies to unlock the full potential of our client's business models and data.



Obecto

• Bulgaria
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Mar 2015 - Jan 2016

  Sofia, Bulgaria As Obecto's CEO, he had: - done ongoing analysis of the company's performance, including detailed profitability per account analysis - facilitated the continuous process of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design, as well as leaded and ran several Customer Development experiments and customer-facing field work - together with Obecto's key account manager Yavor Popov, implemented the concept of fixed stable teams and further improved the company's maturity with SCRUM by… Show more As Obecto's CEO, he had: - done ongoing analysis of the company's performance, including detailed profitability per account analysis - facilitated the continuous process of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design, as well as leaded and ran several Customer Development experiments and customer-facing field work - together with Obecto's key account manager Yavor Popov, implemented the concept of fixed stable teams and further improved the company's maturity with SCRUM by driving the adoption of key agile practices such as Story Mapping - improved and optimized the company's project pipeline management - pioneered the Lean Week service - focused the company's value proposition on 3 core services - the Lean Week, the SCRUM Sprints and the Kanban SLA delivered by the fixed stable teams - improved the marketing and sales process of the new value proposition by developing a company inventory of reusable sales artefacts and a series of landing pages and content - managed to grow the company's revenue by 20% during 2015 and successfully positioned Obecto in a higher-priced market segment

• VP Engineering

  • Dec 2013 - Mar 2015

  Sofia, Bulgaria While Obecto is entering in the Growth stage of the company's evolution, his responsibilities and focus shifted from being responsible for leading key company projects towards being responsible for the engineering practice and delivery of the company as a whole. His primary job included: - guiding the platform selection, technical design and strategy of Obecto - team allocation - growing tech leads and team leads within the company - improving the development methodology

• Co-Founder & Partner

  • Oct 2008 - Dec 2013

  Sofia, Bulgaria Among all other things needed to be done by the start-up team, he was responsible for shaping the software process of the company by leading some of the key company projects. His day-to-day activities include: - management of team(s) of developers - key software development tasks - project planning & estimation - meeting customers and project shareholders - consulting activities such as defining product vision, scope, wire-framing and user experience (UX) - requirements… Show more Among all other things needed to be done by the start-up team, he was responsible for shaping the software process of the company by leading some of the key company projects. His day-to-day activities include: - management of team(s) of developers - key software development tasks - project planning & estimation - meeting customers and project shareholders - consulting activities such as defining product vision, scope, wire-framing and user experience (UX) - requirements elicitation, specification and business domain analysis - participating in the recruiting process - training and growing the company's development teams - initiating and assisting the adoption of technologies, techniques and tools



SEC Live

• Financial Services

• Software Engineer/Co-Creator/Partner

  • Feb 2012 - Dec 2013

  Sofia, Bulgaria At SEC Live, we are changing the way people consume SEC filings. Our flagship product takes the best out of filings by combining machine learning and natural language processing algorithms to make sense of both textual and numeric data and then wrapping it up into an elegant and beautiful web reader. At SEC Live, he was: - developing the initial version of the 'data fetcher' - member of the original web reader development team - developing the email daemon that's keeping… Show more At SEC Live, we are changing the way people consume SEC filings. Our flagship product takes the best out of filings by combining machine learning and natural language processing algorithms to make sense of both textual and numeric data and then wrapping it up into an elegant and beautiful web reader. At SEC Live, he was: - developing the initial version of the 'data fetcher' - member of the original web reader development team - developing the email daemon that's keeping our users up-to-date - rolling out performance tests and optimizations Show less



Gugga

• Developer

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2008

  Sofia, Bulgaria Responsible in design and development of Rich Internet Applications - specializing in Flash, Flex and .NET technologies. Unit tested the Gugga Flash Framework. Architected and builded software solutions for the Bacardi Group of companies. Adopted the Adobe Flex technology and introduced it as a main development platform in the company. Built some of the biggest and most impressive online marketing platforms for Dewars and Bombay Sapphire.



Gameloft

• France
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Game Developer

  • Nov 2005 - Feb 2006

  Sofia, Bulgaria Game developer for the biggest mobile devices game provider. Ported the Sexy Manga Poker game to the Samsung SGH-500D and Sony Ericsson S700 series.



Bulgarian Skating Federation

• Competitor

  • Jan 1997 - Sep 2005

  Sofia, Bulgaria Participant in the Bulgarian Short Track Speed Skating national team. He was competing individually, as well as part of the men's relay team. National record holder 2002 – 2007 (7:10.078 – 5000 meters men’s relay, Beijing 2002 World Cup 2).