Boyan Soubachov
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBoyan Soubachov is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sydney with 8 years of professional experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer productivity tools at Atlassian. He focuses on DevOps-driven platform improvements, scaling internal cloud infrastructure and streamlining the full development lifecycle using Go, Kotlin, AWS and Kubernetes. Previously he led payments and operations teams at Luno and fintech/commerce engineering groups at Prodigy Finance and takealot.com, blending hands-on backend work with architecture and team leadership. An active open-source contributor, Boyan has improved cross-platform tooling and test quality in well-known projects like microsoft/ethr and stretchr/testify, showing attention to robustness and build portability. He pairs a researcher’s rigor (PhD-level electrical engineering studies) with pragmatic engineering: driving developer productivity rather than just shipping features. Colleagues know him for improving fellow engineers’ workflows and for quietly fixing the build-and-test plumbing that keeps large systems reliable.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at University of Cape TownBEng Computer Engineering, BEng Computer Engineering at University of Pretoria 
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (13)
golang10
assertion10
command-line-interface10
testify10
test-framework10
go10
build-automation10
command-line10
testing10
cicd9
logging8
windows8
linux7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stretchr/testify
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 88 reviews, 35 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Boyan contributed to the `testify` repository, which focuses on testing tools in Go. Their work primarily involved fixing typos in the codebase and removing hand-edited generated code. They also refactored existing test code and added new tests for the `NotSame` assertion in both the `assert` and `require` packages. These contributions indicate a focus on improving the library's quality and test coverage.
golangassertionstestingtoolkittestify
microsoft/ethr
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 9 PRs, 32 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Boyan primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase for the network measurement tool. They introduced an internal package for command-line usage functions, enhancing code organization and maintainability. Additionally, the user fixed build-related issues and improved the build scripts, particularly for Windows environments, contributing to the project's cross-platform compatibility. Further contributions include refactoring of plotter and stats-gathering functionality, along with improvements to logging, indicating a focus on both feature development and operational aspects of the project.
networking4gbandwidthicmpmeasurement
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