Ivo Penchev is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building human-centered, responsible AI products across leading research and tech organizations. He has progressed from full-stack and consulting roles to engineering positions at Meta and DeepMind, and now Google DeepMind, delivering production-grade systems that bridge research prototypes and reliable user-facing services. Comfortable across the stack, he brings practical expertise in deploying business-critical software with zero-downtime releases and scaling complex ML-backed features. Known for pragmatic collaboration between research and product teams, Ivo focuses on making advanced AI useful and safe for real users while keeping operational excellence front and center.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computer Science at University of Glasgow
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