Ivaylo Tsankov
Co-Founder And CEO at Luminous Ltd.
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolIvaylo Tsankov is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency distributed systems and multi-regional cloud infrastructure. As Co-Founder and CEO of Luminous and a former Staff Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Coursera, he has architected platforms that manage 500K+ VMs and Kubernetes clusters monthly, emphasizing scalability, reliability, security, and automation. He brings deep systems-level expertise in Golang, C++, Python, network and multithreaded programming, VoIP/WebRTC, and IaC (Terraform/Ansible), having built resilient VM pools, WebSocket transports for millions of messages, and cost-optimized AWS architectures. Ivaylo blends hands-on engineering with product thinking—his work on Rhyme’s cloud workspace and real-time streaming engines demonstrates rare end-to-end ownership from protocol-level C++ code to Terraform-driven global deployments. Based in Sofia, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with measurable impact, also contributing to STEM education through Luminous.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at National Aprilov HighSchoolBachelor's degree of Informatics Informatics, Bachelor's degree of Informatics Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English
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Github Skills (70)
graph10
guacamole10
javascript9
indentation9
httpd9
alpaca9
terraform9
htaccess9
alpha-vantage9
aws9
sling9
bitmex9
java9
gopro9
hashicorp8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
itsankoff/vimrr
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
webedx-spark/sg
Feb 2019 - Jun 2022
Golang library for transactional еmails through SendGrid or SparkPost.
Contributions:1 review, 3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
golanggolang-librarymailssparkposttransactional
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