My name is Atanas Gizdov and I am the best hiring decision your company will make this year.
With over 12 years of experience, I have delivered numerous high profile, high quality software projects to market as an Engineer, a Product owner and as a Technical Program Manager. My unique mix of technical and business backgrounds, coupled with my excellent management skills and attention to detail, have allowed me to advance quickly while making fast and significant impacts at every step. My knowledge of Scrum, best Engineering practices and today’s most common tech stacks is an added bonus.
Here are just a few examples of the immediate and effective impact I can have at your company:
Let me help your team deliver higher quality, more elegant software. I have deep experience managing and owning the product development lifecycle, from idea to production release. I will ensure that your software is delivered up to user standards, while my background as an engineer will ensure we always build with sound architectural and engineering best practices in mind.
Let me help your team go faster. I've led the transformation of an entire Engineering Orgs to Scrum with a strict 2-sprint-and-release schedule. An efficient team is a good team that can get software out the door faster
Let me help your team release faster. I have experience in completely transforming release cadence into a controlled sprint-and-release model, including best practices for source control, user story standards and scalable pre-prod environment practices. With Lanyon, I led the initative to speed up our release schedule by a factor of 3x, while maintaining the same code quality and release volume - the best improvement for any team in the company.
Let me help your team build more scalable software. My working knowledge of software development and the latest tech stacks allow me to spot problems before they become a problem. With me as the gatekeeper before any software is released to production, you can rest assured that your code quality will increase over time, rather than adding to the big pile of tech debt most other people would shove to the bottom of the priotity list
Let me help you manage your stakeholders With excellent personal skills and relationship building, let me handle the negotiations between teams and let the Engineering team focus on what we do best - developing high quality software without constant interruptions. With experience managing projects of dozens of cross-functional stakeholders, you can rest easy I will provide clear direction to everyone involved
Let me bring it all home with the tools needed to get the job done. With experience across many different tool sets, including JIRA, New Relic, Portfolio, Confluence, and various reporting platforms - using your tools correctly is often half the battle
Helping Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and the entire family of Meta apps achieve the most privacy-aware infrastructure in the industry
Helping Akamai deliver a faster, more reliable and more secure internet experience for customers such as Facebook, Apple, the Superbowl, March Madness, Blizzard Entertainment and many others
Drive success by being the development process leader and feature delivery owner for the Lanyon Passkey Engineering team
Responsible for delivering high quality software to market. Epxerience with both manual testing, as well as building Automation tools, most notably Selenium and Cucumber
Utilized Oracle SQL, TOAD and Informatica workflow tool to perform ongoing DB maintenance and support
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Bentley University
Harvard University
