Working experience

I have always been fascinated by the convergence of new technologies.

With 17+ years of successful team leadership and development, I have established myself as an active team worker with a strong work ethic, rapid learning skills, and proven abilities to apply new technologies, often in innovative ways not previously attempted.

Having experience with proven leadership at startups and large enterprises on key company roles like CEO, CTO, Technical Development Manager, and responsible for all aspects of technology, security, and compliance for a VC-funded FinTech/Payments Processing Startup focused on delivering a fully compliant, highly scalable, and resilient cloud-based payments platform. Providing leadership with experience implementing technical solutions along with building and managing global operations teams tasked with ensuring operational stability in the area of Product Definition, Software Development, DevOps, Security, and Production Support.

I have an extensive background in various sectors like financial, security, marketing, online stores, social networking, cryptocurrency, different and innovative startups from different aspects, and many more. Being able to work at a detailed technical level while managing large projects and mentoring technical teams.

I enjoy working in fast-paced environments that demand strategic thinking and creative problem-solving. I seek future innovative projects with people who are passionate about their work and wish to make a positive impact in the world. My goal is to create highly motivated teams, directing them to solve complex problems, while always instilling a culture of individual opportunity and responsibility, challenging ourselves to continuous improvement with all aspects within IT.

EDUCATION

• 2004 – 2009: New Bulgarian University Sofia, Bulgaria Computer Technologies Dept: Specialized in web programming
• 1999 – 2004: Computer Technical High School, Technical University (SF) – Pravetz, Bulgaria: Completed Diploma in Computer Science, Secondary Specialized Education

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 01/2019 – PRESENT   Transact Europe EAD – CTO
• 01/2016 – 01/2019   Transact Europe EAD – Technical Development Manager
  • Ensure ongoing PCI-DSS L1 compliance audit as required by industry regulators
  • Lead and manage all aspects of IT in the company, with minimal supervision and guidance.
  • 24×7 management of a global cloud-based payments processing platform.
  • Successful completion of a yearly  PCI-DSS compliance audit.
  • Successfully manage different teams in the company.
  • Achieved VISA/MC certification of 3DSv2 anti-fraud tools
  • Often filled critical roles for teams in Engineering, Architecture, QA, Support, and Operations.
  • Re-Architected platform to become cloud-native eliminating all single points of failure.
  • First hand assisting ongoing PCI-DSS L1 compliance as required by industry regulators.
  • Working directly on the management of a 24×7 global cloud-based payments processing platform.
  • Leading the migration from multiple Datacenters to AWS cloud with zero downtime.
  • Created an innovative, fully compliant Crypto Currency purchasing platform.
• 09/2019 – PRESENT   AdScout – Founder & CEO (Responsible for the design and development of all aspects of the company ideas)

AdScout enables businesses to reach new customers through a smart social referral platform that encourages your existing customer base or just about anyone to make an instant profit by simply sharing products with family and friends.

• 02/2019 – PRESENT   Globalmarket – Founder & CEO
• 01/2018 – PRESENT  SPIKE – Founder & CTO

With over 80% accurate signals, Spike provides crypto investors with insights for trade opportunities through a decentralized crypto intelligence hub. Spike feeds and analyzes social sentiment, news, technical, exchange, and crowdsourced data in real-time and delivers actionable trade signals. Using blockchain, Spike incentivizes community participation for content contribution and signal optimization using Proof of Stake by Participation technology (PoSP)

• 02/2016 – 03/2019   NudgyNote – Founder / Developer (Available in iStore)
• 11/2014 – 12/2015   Circles Bulgaria – Senior Developer
• 10/2012 – 11/2014   Title X technology – Team Leader
• 06/2011 – 01/2013   Peekseed LLP – Full-stack Developer
• 11/2007 – 06/2011   Mentormate – PHP Team Leader / Senior PHP Developer
• 02/2007 – 11/2007   Sparks Corporation – Database support, System administrator (Work And Travel in the USA for the summer)
• 09/2004 – 02/2007   Tara-Soft – PHP Developer
• 12/2002 – PRESENT   3DBG Network – Founder / Developer

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Georgi Baldjiev, Vice President of the TaraSoft Company Tel: (+359) 897 859 304, (+359) 888 602 718
• Veselin Dobrev, Vice President of the MentorMate Company Tel: (+359) 888 216 998
• More recommendations upon request.

Highlights:

• Innovative Technology Leader

• Entrepreneurial spirit

• World perspective

• Positive attitude

• Problem solver

• Bringing creative ideas to live

• Easily adapts as a leader, follower or team player