Summary
Petar Denev is a Senior Linux DevSecOps engineer with over 10 years of experience designing and operating secure, high-performance platforms across cloud and bare-metal environments. He has led DevOps initiatives for high-frequency crypto trading, payment gateways, and gaming platforms, consistently applying IaC, CI/CD and 12-factor principles to improve reliability and developer velocity. Petar combines deep Linux systems expertise with automation in Python, Bash, Ansible and Go, and has built creative tooling such as server-locking deployment services and local multi-service run environments to streamline testing and releases. He’s delivered PCI-DSS compliant infrastructures, optimized monitoring to cut costs, and migrated complex stacks between cloud providers while keeping production-safe rollouts. Based in Cham, Switzerland, he brings a hands-on, consultative approach from freelance security and hosting work through senior roles at Endava, Toptal and RULEMATCH. A practical innovator, he often automates workflows that let teams deploy more safely and iterate faster.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School of Math and Natural Sciences "Acad. Ivan Guizelev" Gabrovo
Information Technologies, Information Technologies at New Bulgarian University
Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski"
English, Bulgarian