I help companies scale products, build strong teams, and make pragmatic decisions across cloud infrastructure, software delivery, and technical leadership.
I have lived and worked in Bulgaria, Germany, and Sweden, and I work effectively across international teams and remote delivery setups.
My focus is early-stage and growth-stage work, where product, platform, and team decisions are tightly connected. The job is usually not just to write code or review architecture, but to help a company make better technical decisions while still moving fast.
Featured
A few representative engagements, from startup advisory work to hands-on CTO execution and platform scaling.
Supported the company first as an advisor and later as CTO, focusing on scalability, engineering delivery, and team growth as demand increased.
Led technology and operations for an esports betting platform, focused on scaling systems and building a distributed engineering team that could execute reliably across time zones.
Led technical execution for a toy manufacturer, connecting systems, data, and commerce across markets while building the structure for more reliable operations.
Personal
My consulting work is grounded in a mix of passion-driven projects and challenge-fueled experience.
I spend time with older Intel-based systems and the Windows platform from the 1990s and early 2000s, exploring undocumented Win32 APIs and bringing old software back to life on newer systems.
Helping the Freifunk Franken community introduced me to Tor, IPv6, and networking technologies I might not otherwise have explored. Hosting routers and VPN exit nodes gave me hands-on insight into BGP, NAT, and IPv6 on Linux.
Deep familiarity with data center design, internet-scale networking, IPv6, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, and production Linux systems. Building highly available systems across continents rarely comes from off-the-shelf software alone; custom solutions teach you how real internet architecture behaves.
Professional
A few more roles that reflect the mix of software architecture, operational design, interim product thinking, and startup execution.
Analyzed systems with a decade-long history, bridged on-premise and cloud environments, established scalable development processes, and solved difficult problems with out-of-the-box thinking.
Designed hybrid hosting solutions and overhauled backend architecture (RGS), combining infrastructure thinking with application delivery. The work covered scaling, data center infrastructure, and zero-downtime deployments.
Worked across interim product management, logistics process design for German-speaking markets, and the interface between product and technology teams.
Game development
A player-versus-enemy first person retro shooter. Learning about mapping, modding, build pipelines and other challenges.
Engine development
A project on learning modern browser features, JavaScript and retro game engines such as id Tech 2 (Quake 1 and Quake 2).
Running network services
Community Run eXpansive Network. An overlay network using IPv6 to connect communities and people.