Summary
Hristo Trendafilov is a seasoned system engineer with two decades of hands-on expertise in process control, Siemens PLC programming (S5/S7/TIA), HMI development and industrial networks such as PROFIBUS, PROFINET and AS-i. He has led automation projects and commissioning across food-production environments, combining PLC/HMI engineering with instrumentation maintenance, calibration and energy logging to deliver optimized, production-ready systems. Comfortable with both legacy and modern Siemens toolchains (STEP7, TIA Portal, STL/SCL) and SCADA platforms (WinCC, AVEVA/Wonderware), he frequently supervises multidisciplinary teams through installation and commissioning phases. Based in Nordland, Norway, Hristo pairs deep field experience from long tenures at Skretting with recent system engineering responsibilities at Sørskår AS, and brings a practical C/C++ background from early software roles that helps bridge controls and embedded software. Unusually, he blends formal study in communication technologies with extensive shop-floor troubleshooting—often resolving control challenges by rethinking sensor and network architectures rather than just code.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and English language, Mathematics and English language at Мathematical Highschool
Master, Communication technologies, Master, Communication technologies at Technical University of Sofia
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Russian