Petar Dochev
Senior Software Engineer at SumUp
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolPetar Dochev is a senior software engineer based in Sofia with over 30 years of hands-on development experience and more than a decade in cloud-native roles. He has been architecting and operating mission-critical, highly resilient payment and platform services—mapping ISO 20022 to REST APIs and running globally deployed Kubernetes and ECS services with full E2E ownership and 24/7 on-call responsibility. His background spans low-level C/C++ systems and GUIs to modern Go microservices, Postgres/MongoDB data stores, and infrastructure as code, reflecting deep cross-stack expertise. At SAP he helped unify multi-tenant platform services and open-sourced key components, and at FORM3 he optimized throughput and zero-downtime updates for high-volume financial flows. Now at SumUp, he continues to blend reliability, performance tuning, and pragmatic engineering practices cultivated over a long career in both enterprise and fintech domains. An underrated strength is his continuity across eras of computing—able to bridge legacy systems thinking with contemporary cloud architecture.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiHigh School Computer Software Engineering, High School Computer Software Engineering at Technical School of Electronic Systems
English, Russian, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
neo4j10
expressjs10
python10
editor10
percentage10
microsoft10
react-bootstrap10
migration10
migrate10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
service-broker10
vscode10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dotchev/cpu-percentage
Oct 2016 - Jan 2020
Get CPU usage percentage of own process
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 3 months
cpucpu-usagepercentage
dotchev/cf-services
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
foundrycloud-foundrynode-packagenodejsbound
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