Nikolai Dokovski
Software Engineering Manager at SAP
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNikolai Dokovski is a seasoned software engineering manager and cloud-native architect with over a decade of experience driving platform engineering, Kubernetes, and observability initiatives at SAP. He progressed from hands-on software engineering and research roles into product, cloud ops, and architect positions, currently leading engineering efforts for SAP's cloud platform and Gardener-related projects. A CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator and open-source enthusiast, he blends deep operational expertise with product sensibility to make complex distributed systems reliable and production-ready. Based in Walldorf, Germany, he has a long institutional track record at SAP spanning productization, enterprise CloudOps, and platform architecture—often acting as the bridge between research, engineering teams, and cloud operators. Notably, his background includes early academic research in distributed systems, which informs his pragmatic approach to platform design and automation.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
High School of Mathematics PlevenMsc, CS, Msc, CS at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English
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Github Skills (138)
opensearch10
controller10
rbac-authorization10
opentelemetry10
fluent-bit10
fluentd10
k8s10
monitoring10
kubernetes-cluster10
logstash10
helm10
golang10
csv10
kubernetes10
kafka10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
nickytd/logging
Mar 2023 - Aug 2024
Components needed for Gardener logging
Contributions:99 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year 5 months
nickytd/gardener
Jul 2022 - Jul 2026
Kubernetes-native system managing the full lifecycle of conformant Kubernetes clusters as a service on Alicloud, AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, EquinixMetal, vSphere, MetalStack, and Kubevirt with minimal TCO.
Contributions:557 pushes, 106 branches, 6 tags in 4 years
gcpveleroclustersmetalstackequinixmetal
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