Emil Petkov
GROUP CTO, Executive Board Member at E-Comprocessing (ECP)
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Petkov is a seasoned Group CTO and executive board member with 15+ years building and running mission-critical payment and e-commerce platforms across the merchant, PSP, acquirer and issuer sides. He combines hands-on engineering—writing critical code and administering 300+ servers—with strategic leadership, currently managing 100+ cross-functional engineers and owning technical decisions and budgets for a growing payments group. A repeat founder and former CTO/CISO, Emil has designed high-availability, PCI-DSS compliant architectures, tokenization services, HSM integrations and end-to-end payment workflows that sustain 99.99%+ uptime. He is fluent in multiple stacks (Java, Ruby/Rails, Go, JS, Linux) and has personally led 1,500+ interviews, blending deep technical craftsmanship with strong hiring and team-building instincts. Notably, his decade-long traversal of every layer of the payments ecosystem gives him rare perspective on product, compliance and bank-level operations that most technology leaders lack.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Deerfield AcademyMaster Software Technologies, Master Software Technologies at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiBachelor Computer Systems and Technologies, Bachelor Computer Systems and Technologies at Tehnièeski universitet Sofija
English, German
Github Skills (26)
sidekiq10
ruby9
jruby9
thin7
rack5
rails4
server4
sinatra4
iso4
phantomjs3
financial3
capybara3
mruby2
typescript1
backend-api1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eMerchantPay/8583
Apr 2015 - Sep 2019
ruby implementation of iso 8583 financial messages
Contributions:1 release, 39 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 years 5 months
financialisorubyiso-85838583
emilpetkov/dotfiles
Dec 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:14 commits, 40 pushes in 2 months
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