Velizar Kacharov's professional summary
Professional with multiple years of experience in software development and management. Delivered projects for large international companies like Amazon and Paddy Power, used by millions of customers worldwide. Building teams and processes from the ground up, Managing people and mentoring their career development.
Velizar Kacharov
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER
AI AUTOMATION CONSULTANT
Phone:
+359 885 702480
Email:
Location:
Sofia, Bulgaria
Founder and Owner at:
Saint Olve Tree Ltd.
WORK AND ACHIEVEMENTS
2024 - present
Technical Consultant
OPERATION: TEDDY BEAR | BULGARIA
I support the Bulgarian NGO “Operation: Teddy Bear” with the largest Christmas gift donation campaign in Bulgaria: 20,000+ donors, 550 social institutions, 100+ volunteers. I am leading a digital transformation of the campaign, introducing AI automation to enhance the processes.
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Implement AI agents to automate manual organizational work and decrease preparation time.
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Create chatbot agents to answer donor queries and improve the donation experience.
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Automate mandatory privacy compliance tasks using AWS.
2023-2025
Consultant Software Engineering Manager
INDYKITE | INTERNATIONAL
I provided consultant services for the American/Norwegian startup IndyKite which offers data management and knowledge-based access control solutions. I built and managed two teams with 12 international remote-working developers.
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Built the teams and their charters from the ground up. Defined the teams' goals, roadmaps, and priorities matching the goals of the evolving startup.
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Delivered crucial projects needed to secure the company its first clients.
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Drove the adoption of foundational processes: agile development, change management, performance management, operational excellence, compliance.
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Mentored the developers' performance, goals, and career progress.
2021-2022
Software Development Manager
AMAZON | SPAIN
I managed the Amazon Business Addresses team with 7 developers. We provided address administration capabilities for businesses with 10's of thousands of destinations worldwide. Our services were on the critical path of Amazon checkout. They handled 4 million requests and were used in 1 million purchases per day. I managed the promotions of 3 developers from my team. I scored 90% on manager satisfaction and 80% on job satisfaction, measured by anonymous surveys.
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Own the end-to-end lifecycle of our products - design, implementation, release, and support
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Drive the projects' schedule, timeline, and reporting. Remove obstacles and make sure they meet the deadlines Ensure our services satisfy the high quality and performance bar of Amazon
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Manage the developers' performance, goals, and career progress.
2016-2021
Software Development Engineer
AMAZON | IRELAND, SPAIN
From 2016 to 2019, I was an SDE in the Dash Replenishment program in Ireland. I worked on functionality which enables automatic reordering from connected smart devices. In 2019 became an SDE the Amazon Business Checkout organization in Spain. I worked on the services providing business-specific checkout features for millions of customers.
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Design, implement, release, and maintain scalable Java microservices. Based on Spring and AWS for the backend, JSP and Javascript for the frontend.
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Mentor the team's interns. I guided the technical and professional development of 5 interns.
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Organize the development process as a Scrum Master.
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Respond to up to 50 customer tickets and escalations per week
2015
Team Lead
CAYETANO GAMING | BULGARIA
I was a Team Lead of the Games Platform team with 4 developers. My team owned the backend platform for playing and administrating online casino games. The games were distributed by Paddy Power, one of the leaders in casino gaming, and received 100's of thousands gameplays per week.
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Lead the the services' end-to-end lifecycle - design, implementation. release, and support.
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Drive the project execution, schedule, and timelines. Organize the development process as a Scrum Master. Manage the developers' goals and career
2011-2014
Senior Software Developer
CAYETANO GAMING | BULGARIA
As a Senior Software Developer, I worked on the creation and support of the online casino games platform for Paddy Power.
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Design, implement and release scalable Java microservices for online gaming. Based on Spring and Hibernate for the backend, and JSF for the administration fronted.
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Organize the development process as a Scrum Master
EXPERTISE
AI Automation
I help businesses integrate artificial intelligence to streamline operations and increase efficiency. My focus is on identifying practical AI solutions that deliver measurable performance improvements.
Team Management
As a manager, I specialize in creating the teams' charters. I inspire the engineers to work towards a common mission. I nurture the team culture and cohesion between people.
Project Management
I can drive complex, multi-million projects across multiple teams. This includes synchronizing between teams, task prioritization and timelines, resource management, reporting and escalations.
Career Management
One of my big interests is guiding my teammates' career path. I provide mentoring and coaching to engineers who want to grow professionally. I have experience with successfully managing promotions as well as underperformance.
EDUCATION
2005-2009
Bachelor's Degree
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
I earned my Bachelor's degree in Informatics from Sofia University
CERTIFICATES
Management
Essentials
Harvard Business School Online
Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Certificate in Advanced English
Cambridge University
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
