Nikolay Dachev
Infrastructure Automation Engineer
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Dachev is an Infrastructure Automation Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native and on-prem infrastructure across companies like SUSE, VMware and IBM. He blends deep systems and networking expertise—backed by multiple MikroTik, Red Hat and BSD certifications—with SRE and DevOps practice, focusing on automation and reliable platform delivery. His career spans site-reliability, cloud support and automation roles that emphasize resilience at scale, from hosting providers to enterprise cloud services. Based in Sofia, he pairs a pragmatic systems-administration background (Linux/FreeBSD, VMware, networking) with modern automation tooling, and maintains an active mindset between SRE and classic sysadmin responsibilities. An unusual detail: he originally trained in chemical engineering before transitioning to computer science and a decade-plus tech career, reflecting a methodical, cross-disciplinary problem-solving approach.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Telecommunications and PostSecondary Education in Technical School Environment preservation technology, Secondary Education in Technical School Environment preservation technology at Vocational High School of Electrical Engineering and Chemical Technologies “Professor Asen Zlatarov”Bachelor's degree Organic Chemical Technologies Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Organic Chemical Technologies Chemical Engineering at University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy - Sofia
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (53)
network-configuration10
ansible-module10
python10
mikrotik10
nfc10
routeros10
automation10
open-hardware10
ansible10
m5stack10
ssh10
hardware9
sles8
network-automation8
firmware8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NikolayDachev/jadm
Feb 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:254 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
NikolayDachev/ansible_collections
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 151 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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