Alexandrina Karakehayova
Tech Lead at Financial Times
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandrina Karakehayova is a Tech Lead at the Financial Times with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, secure cloud-native systems using AWS, Node.js, and modern JavaScript. She combines technical ownership of architecture and deployment with people leadership—mentoring senior and junior engineers to raise code quality and drive best practices across teams. Her academic background in artificial intelligence (MSc) informs practical applications of ML, NLP, and computer vision to product features, helping bridge research concepts with production realities. Previously she progressed from software engineer roles at Axway to senior engineering responsibilities before stepping into leadership, giving her a strong grounding in full-stack development and operational concerns. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, she is passionate about crafting user-focused, data-driven products and is comfortable translating complex AI ideas into reliable, maintainable services.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, German, Bulgarian
Github Skills (16)
axway8
sqllite7
mssql-database5
mysql-connector4
sqlite2
redis2
javascript1
orm1
postgresql1
sql1
functional-programming1
nodejs1
haskell1
mysql1
salesforce1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
appcelerator-archive/appc.sqlite3
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
An SQLite3 connector for Arrow
Contributions:40 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
sqliteaxwaysqllitearrowconnector
AKarakehayova/fp2015
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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