Yana Petrova
Founder And CEO at Food Startups Meetup Sofia
Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolYana Petrova is a founder and CEO with 11 years of experience building community-driven food ventures at the intersection of sustainable food systems, communications, and events. As founder of CoKitchen and organizer of the Sofia Food Startups Meetup, she combines hands-on operations and product curation with marketing, fundraising, and community-building to turn local food ideas into tangible businesses. Her background leading Bulgaria’s largest open-source event and serving on the Open Projects Foundation board demonstrates a rare blend of grassroots tech/open knowledge advocacy and food-sector entrepreneurship. A seasoned communicator and event strategist, she leverages storytelling, partnerships, and pragmatic project management to scale impact across civic and culinary networks. Notably, she brings a qualitative research and journalism foundation to her work, using consumer insights to shape sustainable food experiences.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma English Literature History Psychology, High School Diploma English Literature History Psychology at Humanitarian High School St. Cyril and St. MethodiusBachelor Journalism and Mass Media, Bachelor Journalism and Mass Media at Universitet za nacionalno i svetovno stopanstvoBachelor Political Science International Relations, Bachelor Political Science International Relations at New Bulgarian UniversityLyuben Karavelov
English, Bulgarian, German, Dutch, Danish
Github Skills (2)
automation2
java1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
ignisf/clarion
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Call for Papers automation tool for OpenFest
Contributions:8 commits in 5 days
automationcall-for-papers
OpenFest/openfest
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
openfest
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
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