Summary
Velin Kerkov is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Sofia with a decade of experience building product-focused engineering teams and customer-facing applications. He currently leads engineering at Foodobox, Bulgaria’s first mobile app tackling food waste, and serves as CTO for a private primary school, blending mission-driven product delivery with institutional IT strategy. His background spans senior frontend leadership at BULPROS and full-stack product development at startups, where he moved between Angular, Node/Sails, Python backends and DevOps to ship reliable interfaces and services. Velin combines hands-on coding and team coaching—he has acted as team lead, interim CEO and client-facing PM—so he often bridges product, design and delivery. Outside work he studies guitar and acting and follows economics and finance, reflecting a curiosity that fuels weekend learning sprints and cross-disciplinary problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Sofia High School of Mathematics "Paisii Hilendarski"
Mobile Software Engineer Mobile Software Engineering, Mobile Software Engineer Mobile Software Engineering at University of Glasgow
English, Bulgarian, German