Kaloyan Raev
Director Of Engineering at Storj
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolKaloyan Raev is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building and shipping developer tooling, cloud platforms, and distributed storage systems, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Storj. He blends hands-on systems and backend development (notably contributions to Storj, rclone and Eclipse Che) with people leadership, having progressed from principal engineer to manager and director roles. A long‑time Eclipse committers and former Zend Studio team lead, he brings deep expertise in Java, Eclipse/OSGi, language servers and CI-driven delivery across diverse VCS and build ecosystems. His work spans both enterprise product ownership (SAP’s Java cloud tools) and cutting-edge decentralized storage and privacy projects, reflecting a rare mix of legacy platform stewardship and blockchain/Storj-focused innovation. Based in Sofia, he also runs a small maker venture and holds an academic background in bio- and medical informatics, an unexpected cross-disciplinary thread in his technical career.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master Bio- and Medical Informatics, Master Bio- and Medical Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (35)
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php10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 337 commits, 385 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kaloyan primarily focused on implementing a light client for the Storj v3 development, adding features such as get-info and list-buckets commands. They made significant changes to the code, including refactoring the client package, modifying go.mod for vgo compatibility, simplifying cryptographic operations, and integrating the zeebo/errs error handling library. These commits also involved using testing tools and frameworks such as httptest, viper for environment variable management and added more bucket tests.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
rclone/rclone
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kaloyan primarily contributed to the integration and enhancement of the rclone project's support for Storj cloud storage. Their work included implementing server-side copy and public link functionalities, refining endpoint configurations, and optimizing file upload performance for larger files. Furthermore, the user updated Storj satellite URLs and labels to reflect the latest information, demonstrating a focus on maintaining the project's compatibility and efficiency with the Storj platform. Several commits involved upgrading dependencies and fixing related issues.
googlefile-storageyandexonedrivestorage
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