Summary
Valeri Bogdanov is a seasoned software engineering leader and architect with over 13 years of professional experience and more than a decade of hands-on development, including six years focused on Go and microservices. He leads teams and shapes architectures to enable sustainable delivery, having built and coached multiple senior engineering teams, bootstrapped CI/CD and observability pipelines, and driven clean-architecture Go services in production. Valeri combines people development—creating career paths and technical libraries—with hands-on problem solving, often acting as the technical focal point across offices. Based in Sofia, he brings a researcher’s depth (PhD-level study in software engineering) to pragmatic product delivery, balancing long-term architecture thinking with day-to-day mentoring and operational readiness. An understated strength is his consistent role in establishing hiring and interviewing processes that scale engineering teams effectively.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Software, Master Software at Technical University of Varna