Alexander Stanev
Advisor To Chief Executive Officer at BORICA AD
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolAlexander Stanev is a seasoned technology and payments executive with 15+ years leading large IT organizations, product teams and national payment infrastructures across Bulgaria and the wider region. He combines hands‑on software engineering roots with strategic roles as CTO, COO and advisor, driving digitalization, payment system modernization and regulatory projects including SEPA, IBAN and PSD2 implementations. Notable achievements include delivering a Mastercard‑audited digital identity service and leading IT due diligence and post‑acquisition architecture work for major bank transactions. Comfortable at the intersection of business, security and operations, he has built and scaled teams of 80–160 engineers and owned full P&L for payment and SaaS services. An active backend contributor to open-source security tooling, he brings practical low‑level coding discipline to executive decision‑making. Based in Sofia, his background in physics and an MBA inform a data‑driven, systems‑level approach to complex financial technology challenges.
15 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at New Bulgarian UniversityMaster's degree, High Energy and Nuclear Physics, Master's degree, High Energy and Nuclear Physics at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiPhysics, Physics at Sofia Math School (SMG,СМГ)
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Github Skills (23)
penetration-testing10
pcap10
python10
ws-security10
c1110
hashcat10
webscraping10
c1710
wifi-security10
network-security10
calibre10
wifi10
html9
urllib7
powershell6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ZerBea/hcxtools
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
A small set of tools to convert packets from capture files to hash files for use with Hashcat or John the Ripper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 60 PRs, 20 comments in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander appears to be a back-end developer, focusing on the core functionality of the `hcxtools` project. Their commits primarily involve modifying the `wlancap2hcx.c` and `hcxpcaptool.c` files, indicating a deep understanding of the tools' inner workings. The user improved the robustness of the tools by implementing size and boundary checks. The user also added new tools and options to enhance the user experience and functionality of the tools, along with code cleanup and optimization.
operating-systemswlanproprietarycalculatecommercial
RealEnder/hcxtools
Jul 2017 - Mar 2025
Small set of tools to capture and convert packets from wlan devices for the use with latest hashcat (100% compatible to hashcat and recommended by hashcat). Support for hashcat hash-modes (2500, 2501, 4800, 5500).
Contributions:1 PR, 120 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 9 months
packetshashsecuritywlanhashcat
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