Summary
Ivan Karabadzhak is a Senior Data Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable data systems and bridging business needs with technical implementation. He has led the development of a 5M+ healthcare professional data graph and high-accuracy audience-matching pipelines that materially improved campaign engagement for pharmaceutical clients. Equally comfortable from low-level networking protocols to cloud-native ETL and real-time pipelines, his toolkit centers on Python, SQL, Airflow, PySpark, BigQuery and ClickHouse across AWS/GCP. A former founder and long-term freelancer, he pairs technical leadership and mentorship with product-minded delivery—shipping SaaS projects end-to-end and mentoring teams to improve reliability and on-time client reporting. Based in Sofia, he brings a practical blend of systems thinking, continuous learning, and a background that ranges from game server scripting to enterprise data engineering.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration
English, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian