Petar Penev
Senior Engineering Manager at VMware Carbon Black
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolPetar Penev is a senior engineering manager with over a decade of software development experience who currently leads two cross-functional teams of 15 engineers at VMware Carbon Black, focusing on Kubernetes, AWS, Java, Go, and Python. He combines hands-on technical judgment with people-first leadership, covering hiring, Scrum, project delivery and long-term coaching to build self-sufficient, high-trust teams. Petar has a track record of delivering high-impact, cross-organizational projects—coordinating with 15+ teams on a top-priority release—and his groups have produced multiple hackathon prototypes and patent submissions. Prior roles span technical leadership and product ownership across identity, fraud and collections platforms, where he established processes, CI pipelines and test suites that raised product quality. He pairs an Executive MBA and strong academic credentials with a habit of stretching outside his comfort zone to take on expanded responsibility. Outside work he balances curiosity and strategy with board games, reading and family time—hinting at a leader who values both systems thinking and human connection.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Systems and Technologies, A, Master of Computer Systems and Technologies, A at University of RuseMaster's degree, Executive MBA, A, Master's degree, Executive MBA, A at American University in Bulgaria
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Github Skills (31)
lda10
editor9
microsoft9
electron9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
vscode9
visual-studio8
visual-studio-code8
folding8
bioinformatics7
logging6
double6
mongodb6
microbiome6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LDWLab/DESIRE
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 10 months
LDWLab/TwinCons
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Alignment score for detection of ancient homologies
Contributions:316 commits, 4 PRs, 155 pushes in 3 years 7 months
ldadataminingancientalignmentscore-alignment
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