Metroscope is a Cloud Native Kubernetes based SaaS solution available on GCP and Azure for advanced diagnostics of industrial installations (Nuclear Plants, Data Centers…)In my expansive role as CTO, Head of Platform Operations, and CISO, I direct a versatile technology team, orchestrating the development and management of cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, site reliability engineering (SRE), IT, and FinOps. My position entails a blend of strategic foresight, technology innovation, and rigorous security governance.Key Responsibilities and Achievements:• Leadership in Cloud Infrastructure & SRE: Championing the design, implementation, and maintenance of secure and efficient cloud infrastructures. Ensuring constant operational integrity and scalability, particularly in Azure environments.• Comprehensive Cybersecurity Oversight: In my role as CISO, I am responsible for:• Developing and enforcing a robust cybersecurity strategy across all digital assets.• Conducting rigorous security assessments, vulnerability scanning, and proactive threat management.• Spearheading incident response, maintaining technical compliance with industry standards, and enhancing team security awareness.• Innovative IT Management: Overseeing a range of IT services, including network infrastructure and the Microsoft 365 suite, ensuring seamless operations and security.• FinOps Strategy & Optimization: Aligning cloud cost management with operational efficiency, ensuring optimal resource utilization and financial prudence.Professional Vision:My aim is to lead our organization through the evolving landscape of technology and security, championing innovation and resilience. I am dedicated to creating an infrastructure that is not only robust and scalable but also embodies the pinnacle of cybersecurity, ready to adapt and thrive amidst the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Citizen Identity projectsWorked on a several projects for issuing new Identity Cards.Lead the sofware development for several key components of the whole identity card system.

Drone Bevy is a cloud based platform for provisioning, managing and controlling fleets of autonomous devices for specific tasks.We are an early stage startup creating a middleware for drones and IoT devices. Our platform can fusion, analyze and visualize streaming data from multiple IoT devices and autonomous vehicles. After analysis of all the data, decisions can be made changing the current goals/priorities/routes for the vehicles participating to the task. These changes are then communicated to each affected vehicle changing their behavior while the mission is progressing. The processing engine can be distributed across different layers (device, fog, cloud) depending on the needs and physical limitations of the layers. Users can deploy custom created processing blocks specific to their needs.

Worked on Emerging Products in Cisco's Collaboration Group in startup mode with a very small group (4 people) spread in 4 locations (Denmark, USA, Bulgaria, France)• Participating in the design and implementation of several next generation prototypes. Using Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Socket.io, React.js, Backbone.js, MongoDB, Express.js.

Developing Cisco’s Enterprise Collaboration Platform (ECP)• Manage Automation, Performance, QA, Documentation and Support teams after the closure of Cisco Mail project, report directly to the Director of ECP Business Unit based in San Jose - US• Was responsible for the planning and budgeting activities for the Bulgarian office and the teams I was responsible for.• Responsible for personnel performance management, development planning, salary planning and technical trainings.• Responsible for the Sofia office IT infrastructure design and evolution ensuring that Cisco’s standards and teams needs are met.• Work closely with other Cisco development offices in US, Ireland, China and India.

Developing Cisco Mail for the cloud (based on the PostPath IP acquired by Cisco)• Cisco acquired PostPath in September 2008 and started to develop the Cisco Mail cloud offering based on the acquired IP and teams.• Manage Automation, Performance, QA and Documentation teams after the acquisition, report directly to the Director of Cisco Mail Business Unit based in San Jose – US.• Modified the strategy, tools and methods used by the teams to align them with the ones used in Cisco’s software development teams when appropriate.• Worked with Cisco DevOps/Cloud teams to define the the requirements for the cloud version.• Cisco closed the Cisco Mail offering on April 2011, the team was reassigned to another project (Enterprise Collaboration Platform aka Webex Social)

Developing on-prem Linux based fully compatible (without plugin) alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server • Manage Automation, Performance, QA and Documentation teams ensuring excellence of performance and results.• Develop and implement the strategy, tools and methods for the supervised teams.• Plan the testing efforts and documentation efforts, set schedules and allocate resources, coordinating with the other teams (Sales, Development, Support, Product Management, Project Management)PostPath has been acquired by Cisco on August 2008

• Implement the software architecture of a specific scientific model of human reasoning (AMBR) in C# based on a previous model developed in Lisp (Scheme)• Work on the model, participate in the design of psychological experiments to gather real world data and run simulations with the model to compare results and improve the computer model.

• Develop the Bulgarian branch of the company to 100 people, manage all the resources in order to meet company objectives, report directly to the shareholders in France• Develop internal rules and procedures, coding guidelines and test principles.• Organize the full cycle of software development activities – project management, business and technical analysis, specification, coding, QA, translation, configuration management, technical support and documentation• Responsible for the hiring, training, supervising, coaching and retaining of the staff.• Responsible for the research and implementation of new technologies and product functionalities.• Participate in sales meetings, project manager for several of the big accounts - CEGETEL, GIRET, IDEALWINE and UNEDIC, and others, supervised other projects progress – system implementation, data migration, validation, reporting, clients feedback

• Participate in all phases of IT research projects - data collection, technical analysis, suggest software solutions, system architecture, system development and documentation• Programming languages– Turbo Pascal / Delphi• System administration – UNIX, ORACLE DB, Oracle Application Server