Nikolay Bochev
Staff Engineer at VMware
Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Bochev is a Staff Engineer at VMware with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux-based infrastructure and cloud-native services. He specializes in virtualization, SRE/DevOps practices, and complex infrastructure automation, with deep experience across CentOS, KVM/oVirt, FreeIPA, Katello, and hybrid networking stacks. His background includes designing highly available systems using Galera, GlusterFS, HAProxy/Nginx and running self-hosted engines over NFS/iSCSI, plus long-standing expertise in Mikrotik and UniFi deployments for medium-to-large venues. Nikolay moved from managing 200+ production Linux servers to driving platform reliability at VMware, showing a pragmatic blend of operations and automation. He pairs broad protocol knowledge (DNS, VPN, AD/LDAP, mail systems) with scripting and programming in Python, PHP and Java, enabling end-to-end solutions from networking to application hosting. Colleagues rely on him for practical, resilient designs and for bringing legacy stack knowledge to modern cloud environments.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Business, Business at 121 Georgi Izmirliev
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (99)
gameserver10
linux9
shell9
phpbb9
bash9
dedicated9
server9
custom-nodes9
auction8
command-line-tool8
lora8
file-upload8
eve-online8
uploading7
eve7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sh1ny/WindowsGSM.ArkSurvivalAscended
Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
🧩WindowsGSM plugin that provides Ark Survival Ascended Dedicated server support!
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
sh1ny/rna-web
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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