Bobby Iliev
DevEx Engineer at Materialize
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolBobby Iliev is a DevEx/DevOps engineer with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized platforms across companies like Materialize, DXC Technology, Sentia Group, and GoDaddy. A passionate Linux and open-source advocate, he blends hands-on systems work—Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins—with application deployments for Java, Spring Boot and Node.js. He’s led and coached operations teams, hiring and training engineers while improving reliability for web, database and load‑balanced systems. Beyond production engineering, Bobby contributes technical writing and front-end improvements to popular community projects, including the widely used "Introduction to Git and GitHub" eBook and the Wave SaaS starter kit. Known for a relentless work ethic and a learner’s mindset, he favors pragmatic automation and knowledge sharing to scale engineering effectiveness.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
"Konstantin Fotinov" high schoolBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at South-West University
English, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (24)
git10
github10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
php10
alpinejs10
html10
css9
tailwindcss9
subscribe7
saas7
subscriber7
su7
file-upload6
github-api6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
bobbyiliev/introduction-to-git-and-github-ebook
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:25 reviews, 88 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Bobby's contributions primarily involve updating the `index.html` file, adding content and elements to the ebook's landing page. They added chapters on git clone and fork, updated the sponsors list, and integrated Katacoda and training links. The user also implemented basic website structure with HTML, CSS and meta tags.
ebookdevops
thedevdojo/wave
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Wave - The Software as a Service Starter Kit, designed to help you build the SAAS of your dreams 🚀 💰
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 69 reviews, 52 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Bobby contributed to both the backend and frontend aspects of the `wave` SaaS starter kit. They made changes to the Voyager admin panel, specifically modifying the user editing interface to display roles correctly. The user also implemented new features, such as checking for user existence before subscribing and adding initial PestPHP tests. Furthermore, the user fixed various bugs related to Alpine.js, including fixes for API keys, cancel modals, avatar modals, and the dev bar.
tailwindcssvoyagerphpwaveas-a-service
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