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About BulgariTech

A senior team building secure-by-default software.

BulgariTech is a Sofia-based engineering studio focused on AI, cybersecurity, and platform engineering. We combine red-team experience, MLOps depth, and platform engineering rigor to deliver systems that hold up in production — and we share what we know through hands-on trainings.

Senior engineers
15+
Years combined experience
20+
Production engagements
30+
Training delivery
EU-wide
Our values

What we optimise for

Three principles that shape every engagement, every hire, and every line of code we ship.

Security as a product feature

Threat models, secure SDLC, and supply-chain hardening are wired into every engagement — not bolted on at the end.

AI that ships

We go beyond demos: RAG systems, custom evaluations, and observability for LLMs that actually reach production.

Engineering integrity

Clear contracts, plain language, fixed-fee proposals where they make sense, and honest trade-off reviews — always.

The team

People you’ll actually work with.

Senior engineers, not staff augmentation. Every BulgariTech engagement is led by experienced operators who write the code, run the workshops, and own the outcome.

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People on the team

  • Kristiyan Velkov

    Chief Technology Officer

    Docker Captain, tech book author, and technical leader with 11+ years in front-end, DevOps, and open source. Sets BulgariTech’s technical direction across AI, security, and platform engineering.

  • Elena Marinova

    Head of AI Engineering

    Builds production LLM systems end-to-end — retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, and observability for regulated workloads.

  • Stoyan Dimitrov

    Head of Security

    Former red-team lead. Threat modeling, penetration testing, and secure-SDLC programs across fintech and healthcare.

  • Iva Petrova

    Principal Cloud Engineer

    Kubernetes platform engineer focused on golden paths, FinOps, and progressive delivery for multi-cluster production estates.

  • Martin Georgiev

    Senior Backend Engineer

    Distributed systems specialist — event-driven pipelines, typed APIs, and data platforms that scale predictably.

  • Ana Todorova

    Training Lead

    Designs hands-on curricula for engineering teams. Two decades of workshop delivery across the EU.

  • Nikolay Stoev

    Senior AI Engineer

    RAG, fine-tuning, and inference infrastructure. Ships LLM products with rigorous evaluation harnesses.

  • Mira Ivanova

    Staff Frontend Engineer

    Design-system specialist. Accessible React, Core Web Vitals obsessive, and tooling author.

  • Boris Nikolov

    DevSecOps Engineer

    Bridges security and platform engineering — supply-chain hardening, policy-as-code, and zero-trust deployments.

  • Yana Koleva

    Engineering Manager

    Coaches senior engineers, runs the discovery sprints, and keeps every engagement aligned with business outcomes.

  • Dimitar Hristov

    Senior Penetration Tester

    Offensive security specialist — web, cloud, and network red-team engagements with detailed remediation guidance.

  • Radoslava Angelova

    MLOps Engineer

    Productionises ML pipelines end-to-end — feature stores, model registries, eval harnesses, and continuous training.

  • Petar Iliev

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Owns SLOs, error budgets, and incident response. Loves observability stacks that surface real signal.

  • Tsvetelina Vasileva

    Staff Data Engineer

    Streaming pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and analytics platforms built for compliance from day one.

  • Lyubomir Pavlov

    Senior Platform Engineer

    Internal developer platforms — golden paths, paved roads, and developer experience that actually saves time.

  • Gergana Stancheva

    Product Designer

    Ships interfaces that respect users and codebases. Strong opinions on accessibility, motion, and design tokens.

  • Andrey Kostov

    Senior Security Engineer

    Application security, cryptography reviews, and secure code review programs at scale.

  • Veronika Atanasova

    Compliance & GRC Lead

    Translates SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR into engineering practice — no theatre, just controls that fit the SDLC.

  • Hristo Mihaylov

    Senior Full-stack Engineer

    Comfortable from database schemas to React component trees. Typed contracts everywhere, edge runtimes optional.

  • Kalina Nedeva

    Delivery & Engagement Lead

    Keeps engagements on rails — scoping, communication, and the unglamorous work that makes great projects happen.

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How we work

Senior engineers, embedded with your team.

No staff augmentation churn. No junior pyramids. Every BulgariTech engagement is led by experienced engineers who write the code, run the workshops, and own the outcome end-to-end.

Research-grade AI

From retrieval pipelines to evaluation harnesses, we apply rigorous engineering to LLM workloads.

Team enablement

We pair delivery with hands-on training so your engineers own what we built together.

Regulated industries

Banking, healthcare, telco, public sector — comfortable working alongside compliance and audit teams.

Technologies

The stack we trust in production.

Battle-tested tooling, proven across consultancy engagements, training labs, and our own products.

TypeScript
Python
Go
Rust
React
Next.js
Node.js
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Vercel
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub Actions
PostgreSQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
OpenAI
Hugging Face
Partners & ecosystem

Building on the best tools in the industry.

We integrate with the vendors and platforms that power modern software — cloud, observability, security, and AI infrastructure.

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Client stories

Quiet, expert work — heard from the people who hired us.

CTOs, security leaders, and platform directors from fintech, healthcare, energy, and SaaS — all with one thing in common.

BulgariTech rebuilt our risk pipeline end-to-end. The team's depth on cryptography and distributed systems is genuinely rare — and they shipped six weeks ahead of plan.

Elena Marinova

CTO · Northwind Financial

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We brought BulgariTech in for a red-team engagement and ended up keeping them on as our secure-SDLC partner. Every recommendation came with working code and clear metrics.

Marcus Reinhardt

Head of Security · Halberd Cloud

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Their AI engineers understand the production side of LLMs — evaluation, guardrails, observability. We went from a brittle prototype to a real product in one quarter.

Sara Lindqvist

VP of Engineering · Vektor Health

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The Kubernetes training program reshaped how our platform team operates. Hands-on, opinionated, and tuned to our exact stack — the best workshop we've ever run.

Tomáš Horák

Director of Platform · Lumen Industrial

BulgariTech's threat modeling sessions surfaced risks our internal team had missed for two years. The remediation roadmap they produced was clear enough to present directly to the board.

Isabelle Fontaine

CISO · Arclux Energy

Rarely do you find engineers who can speak to regulators in the morning and then tune a Kubernetes autoscaler in the afternoon. BulgariTech's team does both without blinking.

Daniel Osei

Engineering Director · PrimeCare Systems

They took our RAG prototype from 61% retrieval accuracy to 94% in eight weeks, then instrumented the whole thing with traces and dashboards before handoff. Outstanding.

Yuki Tanaka

Head of AI Product · Synaptic Labs

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We engaged BulgariTech for a GDPR technical readiness review. Their engineers actually understand the regulation — not just the checkbox version. Invaluable for our Series B.

Klara Johansson

Head of Engineering · Forma Commerce

Let’s build something secure

Have a project, an audit, or a team that needs training?

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll reply within one business day with a concrete plan, references, and a fixed-fee proposal where it makes sense.