Summary
Hristo Kovachev is a DevOps engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience bridging automation-first QA and production platform operations. He progressed from automation-focused QA (Selenium/C#, Taurus, NUnit) to leading QA teams and now runs CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability stacks and on‑prem infrastructure at ZigZag Global. Skilled in Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps and containerization, he builds reproducible IaC pipelines and operational automation that reduce toil and improve reliability. He has practical database administration experience with SQL and MongoDB and drives incident response and alerting workflows to keep services healthy. A mentor and process owner, he pairs a tester’s eye for repeatability with platform engineering practices to ship resilient systems. Based in Varna and grounded in an informatics background, he often applies QA-style test automation thinking to infrastructure and monitoring challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at New Bulgarian University
High School of Economics "Rakovski", Varna