Martin Valchev
Senior Software Engineer at BBC
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMartin Valchev is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with seven years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems at the BBC. He has driven high-impact migrations and modernisations—replacing legacy OpsWorks with an EKS platform that cut infrastructure costs by ~85% and upgrading a Scala system to improve latency by 500–4000%—while championing Kubernetes, GitHub Actions CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, and Graviton adoption. Comfortable leading cross-functional initiatives, he combines hands-on technical delivery with mentorship and organizational change, often taking tech‑lead ownership of experimental R&D work and successful mid-project pivots. A First Class Software Engineering graduate from the University of Southampton, he pairs research collaborations in machine translation with pragmatic cost- and sustainability-focused engineering decisions.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Software Engineering, First Class Honours (85%), BEng, Software Engineering, First Class Honours (85%) at University of Southampton"Tsar Simeon Veliki" Secondary school
German, Bulgarian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Claydelas/csgo-vision
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes in 1 month
Claydelas/advent-of-code-2021
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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