Summary
Atanas Dichev is a Head of Engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling developer productivity, DevOps and cloud infrastructure programs, currently leading Engineering Productivity at News UK. He has progressed from release engineering and on-call operations to owning roadmaps, OKRs and KPIs across DevOps, automation, security and developer experience, shipping migrations such as Akamai to AWS CloudFront and standardising Terraform- and Kubernetes-driven platforms. Comfortable both as a technical lead and people manager, he blends incident troubleshooting and technical refinement with strategic planning to boost engineering throughput. Based in Sofia, he brings practical depth in CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, Packer, Ansible and AWS, and a track record of turning operational pain points into automated, measurable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of National and World Economy
Master's degree, Master's degree at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English