Summary
Valeri Haralanov is an experienced software engineer and emerging manager with 11 years building cloud-native systems, DevOps platforms, and product-facing web services across startups and large tech firms in Japan. He combines hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, observability stacks and multiple languages (Python, Rust, Haskell, JS) with practical leadership—having led small teams, improved incident response and implemented auth/authorization systems. Valeri transitioned from product development to DevOps-focused roles and briefly explored financial planning to apply technical cost analysis to cloud spending, showing a taste for cross-disciplinary problem solving. Based in Saitama, he values coaching and aims to be a people-first manager who helps engineers learn and evolve, inspired by cultures like those in Joy Inc. Not obvious from his title: he began programming in 5th grade and has steadily progressed from part-time roles and internships to assistant manager-level responsibilities, bringing a rare blend of long-term curiosity and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Saitama University (埼玉大学)
English, Japanese, Bulgarian