Vasil Bachev
Principal Engineer at Financial Times Sofia
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolVasil Bachev is a Principal Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in front-end and full-stack web development, currently leading platform and developer-experience efforts at Financial Times Sofia. He has a track record modernising digital publications and building resilient microservice architectures, automating workflows and improving observability to let product teams focus on delivery. Previously he drove large-scale front-end migrations, performance optimisation, and developer tooling at Holiday Extras and eCommera, including rewrites to React/React Native, JAMstack splits, GraphQL aggregation and an in-house session-recording service. Comfortable both as a technical lead and an individual contributor, he blends practical engineering with mentorship and enablement, helping organisations move from monoliths to scalable, testable systems. Based in Sofia, he also brings entrepreneurial experience from co-founding a local literacy-focused social network, reflecting a long-standing interest in building community-oriented digital products.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at New Bulgarian UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Systems Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems Technology at Technical University of Sofia
German, English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (10)
css4
react4
bookmarklet4
cookie3
single-page3
windows-app2
test-fixtures2
selenium2
agile-development2
react-components2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
holidayextras/abba-bookmarklet
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
ABBA split test bookmarklet
Contributions:5 PRs, 11 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
testingabbabookmarkletsplit
vbachevhx/cookie-bookmarklet
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 13 days
cookie-editorbookmarkletcookie
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