Summary
Ivan Vasilev is a DevOps engineer and engineering lead with 12 years of hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems and building reliable infrastructure from Sofia, Bulgaria. He has led cross-functional teams and introduced CI/CD, containerization, and DevOps practices into long-lived, revenue-critical products at Experian while balancing legal and security constraints. Ivan combines embedded-systems roots (Olimex, early IoT work) and automotive safety experience with recent cloud-native and freelance projects, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from firmware to production pipelines. As owner of Zmei Research he experiments with software and hardware ideas and helps peers prototype and ship unusual side projects. Comfortable both managing people and writing low-level code, he’s known for pragmatic technical steering and for surfacing subtle hardware and integration issues long before they become incidents.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Communication technology and equipment, Bachelor Communication technology and equipment at Technical University of Sofia
Master's degree Informatics, Master's degree Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Russian