Summary
Antoni Karasavov is a results-focused software leader with 14 years of professional experience and over a decade specialising in Ruby on Rails backends and modern JavaScript frontends. As Director of Bad Byte Software he delivers consultancy for startups and SMEs, combining systems architecture, third-party integrations and hands-on engineering. His career spans product-facing roles—improving conversions, building reusable design systems and shipping modular frontend engines—to platform and SRE work at HSBC, giving him a rare blend of app-level product focus and operational reliability skills. He has led team transitions and mentorship initiatives, boosting in-house capabilities while reducing technical debt and improving CI/CD confidence. Notably, he has architected bespoke integrations (Stripe, courier APIs, Shopify) and small tooling like an Electron-based print-server that solved real warehouse constraints. Based in London with an MSc in Software Engineering, Antoni pairs pragmatic engineering with measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Software engineering, MSc Software engineering at Kingston University
BS Business Administration, BS Business Administration at City University of Seattle
English, Bulgarian