Stoyan Rachev
Principal Software Engineer at Redis
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolStoyan Rachev is a Principal Software Engineer with over 25 years of professional experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, most recently shaping tax and compliance infrastructure at Uber and contributing to Kubernetes at SAP. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Go and Java microservices, Kubernetes, and software lifecycle management with proven leadership in building teams and driving large migration programs. At Uber he redesigned tax calculation and fares interactions to achieve near 100% match rates across multiple countries, and at SAP he made notable open-source contributions to the Gardener project for managing Kubernetes at scale. Comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, he has led organizations of ~60 people and repeatedly delivered complex platform initiatives like usage metering and zero-downtime maintenance. Based in Sofia, he balances technical depth with product-focused delivery and a history of speaking at industry conferences. An understated strength is his track record of turning cross-functional migration challenges into repeatable, validated solutions that scale globally.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Technology, MS Computer Technology at Mathematical High School VarnaM. Sc. Computer Technology, M. Sc. Computer Technology at Technical University of Varna
English, Russian, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (161)
google-cloud-platform10
vsphere10
reference-application10
controller10
openstack-swift10
terraform10
gcp10
ubuntu10
backup10
disaster-recovery10
google-cloud10
nfv10
k8s10
operator10
code-generator10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
stoyanr/etcd-druid
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
A druid for etcd management in Gardener
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 6 months
etcdetcd-managementdruidgardener
stoyanr/etcd-backup-restore
Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Collection of components to backup and restore the Etcd of a Kubernetes cluster
Contributions:3 reviews, 18 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year
etcdrestorekuberneteskubernetes-clustercluster
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