Yasen Yankov is a seasoned engineering and product executive with 13+ years building and scaling fintech and crypto platforms, currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Nexo after leading institutional trading products as VP of Engineering & Product. He combines deep technical roots in Java/Spring, web stacks and CI/CD with hands-on leadership of large organizations—having managed 100+ engineers across 18+ teams at Paysafe—while driving end-to-end product strategy and delivery. At Nexo he oversees wealth management and prime brokerage product lines, aligning engineering, product, and infrastructure to accelerate growth and client experience. A board member and advisor at MindHub, he brings a passion for developer education and operationalizing R&D into customer-facing tools. His background founding and scaling fintech startups gives him an operator’s instincts for shipping compliant, reliable financial systems under high regulatory and performance constraints.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
College "Electronic Systems" affiliated with TU -Sofia
B.S; Faculty Computer Systems and Technologies; Computer Systems and Technologies, B.S; Faculty Computer Systems and Technologies; Computer Systems and Technologies at Technical University of Sofia
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