Boyan Bonev
Software Engineer at Span
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolBoyan Bonev is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience who comfortably alternates between individual contributor and leadership roles, most recently joining Span after spearheading the ex-Stemma product team at Teradata. He builds full-stack, data-centric products end-to-end—from bespoke backend services and infrastructure to frontend visualizations—and has deep hands-on experience with Python, Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Pulumi and multi-tenant SaaS design. As a founding engineer and former CTO he has shipped production ML and real-time bitemporal storage pipelines, customer-facing APIs and mobile apps, and led technical due diligence and risk assessments for acquisitions. He’s an active contributor to the Amundsen open-source metadata project, adding backend Jira integrations and frontend lineage visualization work, reflecting his interest in developer productivity and data discoverability. Colleagues describe him as outcome-focused and collaboration-first, able to translate product needs into reliable systems while mentoring teams. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, he blends startup grit with enterprise delivery discipline and a knack for plumbing complex data infrastructure into usable products.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Université de Bordeaux
Bulgarian, English, French
Github Skills (16)
python10
typescript-types9
react9
typescript9
javascript9
typescripts9
data-catalog8
elasticsearchquery8
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
amazon-elasticsearch8
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
aws-elasticsearch8
jira-integration7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsen
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Boyan contributed significantly to the Amundsen project, focusing on both backend and frontend development. They implemented backwards compatibility for Jira cloud/hosted within the backend, integrating with issue tracking. Additionally, they worked on the frontend, contributing to the lineage graph visualization. Finally, they addressed action log errors and fixed mypy types for elasticsearch health checks, indicating familiarity with testing and infrastructure.
scientistspythondatadata-scienceanalysts
golangbg/where-to-go
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
The repository contains a list of companies in Bulgaria that use Go in production.
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 7 months
go
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