Detelin Hadzhiev

Self-driven Technical Team Lead with strong analytical skills, clear communication, and a solutions mindset. Adaptive, detail-oriented, and committed to leading with integrity and purpose.

Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

About

Experience

  • Financial Times Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria)
    • Technical Team Lead
      Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

      - Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a team of engineers. Ensuring they develop as individuals and successfully function as a team. - Set clear objectives for individuals and teams,monitor and guide performance, and set expectations of responsibility and accountability - Foster a safe, inclusive environment. - Guide their team(s) through challenges by facilitating discussions, ensuring problems are addressed, and offering insights from a broader context - Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement - Support the Principal Engineer to set the long-term goals for the team, ensuring the technical work required to achieve business outcomes is delivered efficiently and to a high standard - Contribute to the direction and scope of technical initiatives, collaborating with other engineers or vendors on their implementation - Adapt to evolving business priorities while keeping the team focused and engaged - Ensure efficient processes, championing best practices to successfully deliver quality solutions on time which adheres to agreed technical strategies and standards - Maintain visibility of the team’s technical work, providing them with updates and context when needed - Anticipate problems and blockers, support and encourage the team to find solutions, and communicate effectively about problems and their impact

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Nov 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      The Membership Platform provides all of the underlying capabilities to support and manage the FT's relationship with its customers and prospects. It is build on top most contemporary technologies using containerized micro-serves architecture deployed on Kubernetes over AWS which make platform highly available & scalable with zero down time in order to fulfil millions of end user requests. The platform consist of hundred micro-services developed on different languages such as Java, Go, NodeJS specifically designed to meet every user journey and busyness flows. Technology stack: - Backend language and frameworks: Java 8/11, Go-Lang, Node.js, Microservices, Dropwizard, Spring Boot and its ecosystem, REST, Graph QL, Kafka, Casandra, DynamoDB, Aurora DB, - Build, deploy and monitoring infrastructure: Maven, Nexus, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Graffiti, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Zipkin, Internal HealthChecks, Vault, Liquibase/Flyway - Cloud Services: EC2, EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Route 53/DYN, SES, Fastly(CDN) Tools : Git/GitHub, Postman, Swagger, LastPass, InteliJ, Jira - Kanban

  • Technical Lead at Urbanise.com
    Jun 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    The Urbanise platform uses cloud technology and the IoT to completely reimagine service delivery to buildings and communities. It offers customers innovative service delivery solutions that make everyday life for the urban citizen easier. • Asset Maintenance – Innovative asset maintenance in the cloud provides tracking, managing, reporting and planning facilities operations. Urbanise lets you capture facilities management data on site, in real time, and store it securely online. So every task—from scheduling resources, to emergency maintenance requests—is only a click away. • Workforce Portal / App – Workforce management made easy. With Urbanise, you can give your entire workforce access to job orders and schedules online. Employees, sub-contractors and third parties log into a secure account that contains their program of jobs, along with details of customers and their histories. Main activities and responsibilities: • Hands-on development activities • Define the vision for an entire program of work, coordinating with multiple teams across the world • Define and coordinate the technical tasks for the development of the software and interfaces • Create & manage architecture diagrams/plans • Serve as the interface between the developers and the project manager • Resolve customer issues by debugging and root cause analyses Tech Stack - Java, Postgre, Hibernate, Elastic Search ,AWS Services - EC2, Jenkins, Scrum

  • Software Engeneer at Software AG
    Dec 2011 - May 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

    • Software AG OSGi runtime/platform – SAG’s OSGi container is based on the equinox framework. It consists of common libraries and services used across entire Software AG product suit. It provides centralized services for authentication, authorization, dynamic configurations, deployment, monitoring, logging and web container extras. • SAG security infrastructure – JaaS based framework which provides plenty of login modules out of box targeting different used cases like LDAP integration, SSO solutions based on SAML2 and Kerberos against the external Identity Providers (IDPs) Used Java frameworks and tools: Equinox/OSGi, P2 provisioning , Blueprint (Spring for OSGi), Gemini Web (tomcat extension for OSGi), Tomcat 7, Jetty, ADSF 2/IDP, Spring Core, Spring-saml2, SAML, Kerberos GSS-API, Axis2/Rampart/WS, JAAS, Eclipse, Gradle, Maven, Ant, SVN, BnD and Scrum.

  • (Sr) Java Developer at InterComponentWare AG
    Nov 2005 - Mar 2010 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    • e-Health Framework (eHF) – The eHealth Framework is a technology platform for the development of applications and solutions for the health care sector and supports both integration and data exchange scenarios. • LifeSensor (www.lifesensor.de) – personal health record, individuals and medical professionals can safely store and manage their personal health data and documents online Tech stack: Java, Spring, J2EE, JSP, Hibernate, Oracle, Jenkins, Scrum

  • Junior Java/SQL Developer at Bioteam Software Ltd
    Oct 2004 - Oct 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo