Summary
Daniel Kalchev is a seasoned systems administrator and Internet infrastructure leader with over three decades of hands-on experience in UNIX/BSD systems, networking, storage and DNS operations. As co-owner and technical director of Register.BG and a long-serving board member at Imena.BG, he has driven ccTLD management, technical design and operational processes in Bulgaria since the early Internet era. His role as an ICANN ccTLD technical contact and early work running Bulgaria’s first BBS and EUnet backbone reflect deep protocol-level expertise and long-term stewardship of national Internet resources. Daniel combines pragmatic systems engineering with governance experience, routinely translating complex technical requirements into reliable, auditable infrastructure. Based in Varna, he pairs an engineer’s degree in computer science with rare institutional memory of the Internet’s evolution in Eastern Europe, making him a go-to expert for domain, DNS and UNIX server challenges.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computer science, Engineer’s Degree, Computer science at Tehnièeski universitet Varna
English, Russian, Bulgarian