Ivan Zlatev
VP Of Engineering at Faria Education Group
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIvan Zlatev is a seasoned engineering leader with 26 years of experience building and scaling technology organisations across startups and large enterprises, now serving as VP of Engineering in London. He combines deep hands-on technical expertise in .NET, cloud architectures and high-availability systems with a proven track record of setting up operating models, progression frameworks and delivery practices that enable teams to grow from early-stage to scale-up. Ivan led large, distributed organisations (up to 70 engineers) to measurable business impact—driving cloud migrations, cost optimisations and multi-digit KPI improvements—while coaching managers and creating psychologically safe, high-performing teams. A versatile contributor, he also has meaningful open-source work on prominent projects such as the official C# support for VS Code, reflecting an eye for developer experience and language tooling. Known for translating product strategy into organisational design, he excels at reducing operational toil and aligning engineering outcomes with business goals.
26 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc .NET Distributed Systems Development, MSc .NET Distributed Systems Development at University of Hull
English, Bulgarian, German, Russian
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Github Skills (32)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
machine/machine.specifications
Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 89 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily focused on modifying and testing the core functionality of Machine.Specifications, a .NET context/specification framework. They implemented changes to the context factory, runner, and other internal components, while also creating and modifying tests to ensure the correct behavior of the framework. Further work included porting the project to .NET Standard and enhancing the build script for continuous integration.
dotnetmspectestingspecificationfluent-assertions
dotnet/vscode-csharp
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Official C# support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 20 PRs, 68 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the C# support for Visual Studio Code, adding features and improving existing functionality. Their work included implementing "Go to Definition" for 3rd party assemblies, implementing "Peek Definition" features, and providing support for syntax highlighting. The user also added tests to validate syntax highlighting, contributing to the overall quality of the project. This demonstrates a focus on enhancing the core C# language features within the VS Code environment.
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