Svetlin Ralchev
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSvetlin Ralchev is a Principal Software Engineer and software architect based in London with 11+ years building cloud-native, high-availability systems across Healthcare, FinTech, SportTech, Logistics and developer tools. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Go, Linux internals and containerization with strong people leadership—scaling and mentoring cross-functional teams that support enterprise production deployments. At Pivotal he grew and led a RabbitMQ-focused engineering team responsible for bespoke tooling, 24/7 production support and solutions used by clients like HSBC and BMW, and he now applies that experience at Hippo and Savehealth. His background spans both product engineering (Telerik UI components, Git integrations) and platform reliability, so he equally values developer experience and operational excellence. Known as a force multiplier, he frequently turns legacy monoliths into scalable microservices and builds repeatable cloud infrastructure. Outside the obvious, he pairs architectural strategy with low-level performance tuning—bringing measurable improvements in resilience and efficiency to critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (200)
structures10
identity10
testing10
openid-provider10
matcher10
ncurses10
hydra10
bdd10
golang10
database-connector10
ftp-client10
oauth2-provider10
neovim-plugin10
openid10
tui10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
iamralch/home-osx
Aug 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:96 commits, 410 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
phogolabs/cli
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
A simple package for building command line applications in Go
Contributions:25 commits, 31 PRs, 154 pushes in 4 years
golangcli-appargparsevault-clientcommand-line
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