Mario Daskalov
VP Of Engineering at SessionStack
Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolMario Daskalov is a hands-on engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling SaaS platforms, currently serving as VP of Engineering at SessionStack. He has led architecture and infrastructure for systems processing billions of events monthly, driven cloud migrations from AWS to GCP, and introduced container-first and IaC practices to support rapid growth. As a founding-team leader he balances technical execution—mentoring engineers, reviewing PRs, and improving observability—with strategic product planning and R&D budgeting. He also launched an AI/ML team to expand product capabilities and drive new market entry, demonstrating a keen ability to translate research into customer-facing features. Based in Bulgaria, Mario pairs deep systems design with a product-minded approach to shipping fast while managing technical debt. Outside of work he channels the endurance and timing learned from mountain biking and snowboarding into resilient team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiSofia Highschool of Mathematics
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (54)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
xslt9
redis-client9
torrent9
nodejs9
ruby-on-rails9
bittorrent9
activerecord9
xml9
node-redis9
docker8
nokogiri8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hahcho/dotvim
Mar 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:22 pushes in 5 years 1 month
hahcho/dotfiles
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes in 7 months
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