Petar Manev
Engineering Manager at paymenttools
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolPetar Manev is an experienced Engineering Manager with 13 years in software development and leadership, currently heading engineering at paymenttools in Sofia. He has grown R&D organizations up to ~35 people, balancing strategic management with hands-on technical work across Java, Python, React/TypeScript and AWS. Petar has repeatedly combined people leadership, hiring and performance management with active involvement in code reviews, QA automation and DevOps to keep delivery predictable. As Site Lead he also handled legal, financial and administrative responsibilities for a Bulgarian subsidiary, giving him cross-functional operational experience beyond engineering. He is comfortable setting OKRs and driving product lifecycles while mentoring managers and architects to scale teams. Known for blending pragmatic technical depth with empathetic team building, he prefers enabling engineers to succeed rather than imposing top-down processes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technical University of Sofia
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (72)
testing10
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browser10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
angular-testing-library10
testing-library10
test-suite10
cypress10
svelte-testing-library10
test-runner10
wait10
component-testing10
javascript9
test-automation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
manevpe/manager-1-2-1-guide
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
manevpe/eng-org-maturity-model
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
A template for scoring the maturity of engineering organizations, teams and projects
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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