Summary
Teodor Shaterov is a Principal Engineer based in Sofia with 11 years of software engineering experience and over seven years in leadership roles at the Financial Times. He currently manages four engineering teams across Access & Identity, Email Management and Core Infrastructure, shaping technical strategy and enabling teams to deliver at scale. His background blends hands-on backend and cloud engineering—Java, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Docker, Terraform—with deep experience in access models and authentication platforms. Teodor progressed from embedded systems and performance-focused integrations to leading membership and identity platforms, giving him a rare combination of low-level systems insight and product-facing architecture. He is skilled at mentoring engineers and translating complex security and scalability requirements into pragmatic delivery roadmaps. Outside the obvious, his early work on high-throughput data transmission and IoT device management informs a practical approach to designing resilient, observable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at FernUniversität in Hagen
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Secondary education Mathematics and Computer Science, Secondary education Mathematics and Computer Science at National High School of Mathematics and Science
English, German, Bulgarian