Summary
Ivaylo Atanasov is a software engineer based in Sofia with 11 years of professional experience and a strong focus on Python-driven data aggregation, web development, and automation. He has progressed from junior Python roles into project co-ownership and mentoring, maintaining large data-collection pipelines using Scrapy, Selenium, Airflow and Django. Recently joining Cognyte after engineering roles at EMIS Health and A Data Pro, he combines hands-on coding, code review stewardship, and production deployment responsibility. His background in trading and sales gives him a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to problem solving and an aptitude for fast decision-making under pressure. A self-starter and curious learner, he documents his work on GitHub and leverages practical, self-taught training to continuously expand his toolkit. Notably, he pairs backend automation expertise with experience onboarding and mentoring junior engineers, speeding team productivity while preserving code quality.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Software Engineering, None, None, Computer Software Engineering, None at Self taught Django courses
Python Programming - Self thought (No certificates, only GitHub), Python Programming - Self thought (No certificates, only GitHub) at Software University (softuni.bg)
Bachelor's degree (Not completed), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree (Not completed), Computer Science at Plovdivski universitet 'Paisii Hilendarski'