Technical Advisor

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

VP of Engineering

Angel Investor

We guide companies to success by solving complex technical, people, process and organizational challenges.
We provide CTO as a service.

Owner

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

Interim CTO

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

Chief Technology Officer

General Manager of Leanplum Bulgaria

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

VP of Product Development

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

Sr. Director, R&D

Sofia Site Lead

Building great teams and amazing product!

Sr. Director of Product Development

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.



Sr. Director, PS CoE

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.

Director, R&D

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.

Director, Quality Engineering

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

Senior Manager, R&D

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.

Staff Engineer, R&D

•	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

Technical Partner

•	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

Project Manager and Senior Software Developer

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

Team Leader

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

Software Engineer

Connecto.ai mission is to connect businesses with people through AI-powered conversational interfaces.

Acquired by Leanplum, June 2018

CEO & Co-founder

Technology and Product Leadership

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