Hristian Garnev
Engineering Manager at SumUp
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolHristian Garnev is an Engineering Manager based in Sofia with six years of professional experience leading frontend-focused teams in the banking and payments space. At SumUp he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Engineering Manager, combining hands-on frontend expertise with team leadership and delivery ownership. His background includes senior frontend roles across finance and hospitality tech, public speaking on CSS layout techniques, and founding a coding school, signaling a strong commitment to mentorship and developer education. He holds a Master’s in Computer Software Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia and brings practical experience shipping user-facing systems at scale. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic coach who balances product goals with clean, maintainable UI code and invests in growing engineers beyond technical skills.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Computer Engineering, High School, Computer Engineering at National Professional High school of Computer Technologies and Systems, PravetsMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Technical University of Sofia
English, Bulgarian, German
Github Skills (3)
react10
react-components10
component-library10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
sumup-oss/circuit-ui
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
SumUp's design system for the web
Contributions:2 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reactsumupcircuit-uidesign-systemreact-components
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