Summary
Ivaylo Kachaunov is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and founder with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering multimedia, video/audio processing, and 3D rendering solutions for clients worldwide. He leads R&D at VuVirt, building complex streaming, encoding/decoding, hooking and rendering systems using DirectX/Media Foundation, FFMPEG, GStreamer, OpenGL/Unity/WebGL and related low-level APIs. Comfortable across native C++ pipelines, .NET/C#, and modern web stacks like React.js, he combines deep systems-level expertise (COM/WASAPI/Win32 hooking, Winsock) with polished UI and cross-platform toolchains (Qt, WebKit). His background includes game-show and casino systems, embedded communications, and visualization products, reflecting a rare blend of graphics, multimedia plumbing and product-focused implementation. Based in Bulgaria and academically trained at Technical University Sofia, he brings entrepreneurial drive and a reputation for turning demanding multimedia requirements into robust, production-ready software.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Technical University Sofia
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Software development, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Software development at Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria
English, Bulgarian, french (beginner)