Summary
Antoni Ivanov is a Staff Engineer at VMware with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale data and analytics platforms. He is co-creator and technical lead of the open-source Versatile Data Kit (VDK), which helped shift VMware’s data engineering toward code-first, automated, and decentralized practices. At VMware he architected PB-scale OLTP data solutions, led the platform’s transition to a SaaS offering, and established DevOps and compliance practices that improved reliability and incident response. His background spans metadata-driven ETL, schema management, and production data transformation across Java, Spark, Impala, Python, Kubernetes, and Parquet. Based in Bulgaria, he pairs deep systems engineering with a growing public-facing voice through technical writing and open-source leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
High School, Informatics, High School, Informatics at PMG Vasil Drumev
English, Spanish, Japanese, Bulgarian