Kiril Vuchkov

Senior Engineering Manager at Vay, leading the cross-functional Mobility teams to bring the company’s driverless technology to end-customers. Responsible for hiring, culture, mentorship, performance management, vision and high-level software architecture.

Current scope spans cross-platform mobile and web apps, APIs, distributed event-based Golang backends, AWS cloud infrastructure and integrations with Vay’s deep tech stack in various problem domains like customer experience, KYC, payments, logistics & fleet management.

Prior to joining Vay, driving the re-architecture of the internal invoicing product at Uber as tech lead. At VMware, partnering with enterprise customers on building private cloud internal products and developer experience.

14 +

Years of Experience

10 +

Software products

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Passion for people

Writing code can only get you halfway.

Combining hiring & performance management with coaching & vision I found another professional sweet spot – helping teams be more effective and efficient (in that order) and driving business outcomes.

Practices dear to my heart are continuous delivery, effective code reviews, agile software architecture, on-call and blameless postmortems.

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Passion for technology

Making effective software architecture decisions and writing elegant code that both serves the customer and helps other developers deliver more value – faster has been my daily job for many years.

As engineering manager, now I focus more on high-level architecture, but keep my connection to the code by code reviews, small contributions off the critical path and prototyping around emerging technologies.

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Passion for speaking & writing

Had the privilege to speak at various internal and external conferences like VMware’s RADIO, Golang Meetup (Bulgaria), Uber Engineering Meetup (Bulgaria), Dev: Challenge Accepted and PlovDev.

I am always excited for the next speaking opportunity.

You should also check out my engineering blog, where I combine my passion for writing with my thoughts and experience in building technology and teams.

Read my BLog

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