Martin Dekov
Senior Software Engineer at SUSE
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolMartin Dekov is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and deployment tooling, currently based in Sofia and working at SUSE. He has a strong VMware pedigree where he progressed through multiple engineering levels and recently contributed to Broadcom R&D, demonstrating consistent advancement in enterprise software roles. An open-source enthusiast, Martin has made notable contributions to OpenFaaS—improving the official faas-cli and multi-tenant OpenFaaS Cloud by enhancing deployment, tagging, namespace handling, and CI/CD workflows. His strengths span back-end development and DevOps, including S3-backed storage configuration and automated build/deploy pipelines. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who bridges developer ergonomics and production reliability, often surfacing small but impactful UX improvements like exit codes for CLI server errors. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Informatics from New Bulgarian University and favors tackling cross-cutting platform problems that improve deployability and observability.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at New Bulgarian University
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
docker10
faas10
github10
command-line-interface10
dockers10
gitlab10
go10
openfaas10
sdk10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
golang10
error-handling10
deployment-automation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openfaas/openfaas-cloud
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
The Multi-user OpenFaaS Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:63 commits, 63 PRs, 365 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Martin Dekov primarily focused on back-end development tasks, adding structures for GitLab and refactoring to support both GitLab and GitHub. They also worked on the deployment pipeline, modifying build processes and adding features for automated deployment, which included improvements in buildshiprun, and git-tar functions. Furthermore, they demonstrated DevOps skills by configuring settings for S3 storage and the deployment workflow.
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openfaas/faas-cli
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Official CLI for OpenFaaS
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 15 PRs, 234 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to improving the `faas-cli` tool, focusing on server error handling and deployment functionalities. They added an exit code for server errors, ensuring that the `deploy` command fails with a non-zero exit status upon server status issues. Furthermore, they extended the `--tag` feature to include branch tagging, providing more detailed image versioning and added support for annotations. The commits also included adjustments to how the CLI handles namespaces.
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