Anton Sankov

Cast AI

• Attack Paths: graph-based detection of attack vectors exposed and waiting to be exploited
• Image Scanning: scanning container images, providing information about vulnerable container images and possible remediation
• Compliance: rule-based checks for violation of industry-defined compliance standards and best practices

Responsibilities

• write clean and maintainable code, do code reviews, onboard new team members
• communicate with internal and external stakeholders (PM, UX, customers)
• communicate with other teams regarding work on shared components
• write technical documents (Engineering Analysis, write-ups, RFCs, customer-facing product documentation)
• present the work of our team in company-wide meetings and demos
• participate in the hiring process - interview people for my team, work on defining interview process, questions and assignments
• participate and lead the Dev Wars Guild - a think thank of senior engineers from all teams that discuss company-wide technical problems and their solutions
• all of that work was done in a remote team spread across Europe

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VMware Carbon Black

• Hardening: detecting misconfigurations in Kubernetes resources and enforcing policies for them
• Image Scanning: scanning container images, integrated with Hardening, ability to block images from being deploy depending on the number of vulnerabilities
• Runtime: runtime monitoring and protection, detecting anomalies in network activity during the runtime lifecycle of the app

Responsibilities

• write clean and maintainable code, do code reviews, onboard new team members
• communicate with internal and external stakeholders (PM, UX, QA, customers)
• communicate with other teams regarding work on shared components
• write technical documents (RFCs/JEDIs/TASAs, Engineering Analysis, customer-facing product documentation)
• present the work of our team on BU-wide meetings and demos, and also external events
• participate in the hiring process - interview people for my and other teams, helped grow the BU in Sofia from 4 to >100 people
• participate in Talent Boost - VMware Academy for students
• all of that work was done in a remote team across Bulgaria, Israel, India and USA

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Docker Inc./ Mirantis Inc.

At Docker I worked on a few products, part of the Docker Enterprise (Docker EE) stack. In November 2019 that part of the company was acquired by Mirantis and I was included in the acquisition. Due to the dynamic nature of the events that were happening during my time there I switched a few teams and worked on a few different products while in the company:

• SaaS multi-cluster management product - part of Docker EE stack. Scrapped after the acquisition.
• Integrating Istio Ingress into UCP (Universal Control Plane) - Kubernetes/Swarm distro, part of Docker EE
• Launchpad - CLI tool for installing Docker EE products

Responsibilities

• write clean and maintainable code, do code reviews, onboard new team members
• communicate with internal and external stakeholders (PM, UX, QA)
• write technical documents (RFCs/JEDIs/TASAs, Engineering Analysis, customer-facing product documentation)
• present the work of our team in company-wide meetings and demos

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Paysafe

At Paysafe I worked on integrating crypto-currency trading into the company's two digital wallets - Skrill and Neteller.

Responsibilities

• write clean and maintainable code, do code reviews, onboard new team members
• do full-stack work - both back-end and front-end
• communicate with internal and external stakeholders (PM, UX, Legal, Compliance, Accounting)
• participate in the hiring process - interview people for my team, helped grow the team from 4 to 20 people
• present the work of our team in company-wide meetings and demos

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SAP Labs Bulgaria

At my first actual job in IT I worked on the provisioning framework of SAP Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• started the internship with a month of learning and building my own project
• after that, I joined the team and worked full-time on the team's priorities
• write clean and maintainable code, do code reviews (but mostly be on the receiving side of the code reviews)
• do full-stack work - both back-end and front-end
• learn how to work in a team

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Kiwi TCMS

Got involved in the project to gain more experience in the software development world.

Responsibilities

• write clean and maintainable code, do code reviews, onboard new team members
• make and execute a plan to refactor ~2000 pylint warnings
• work on refactoring older pages to modern JS code with latest version of Patternfly
• work and lead the Telemetry initiative
• man the project booth at conferences, and speak to potential customers and contributors

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90DaysOfDevOps (Second Edition)

Contributed 14 articles for the 90DaysOfDevOps initiative.

Responsibilities

• Days 14-20: Continuous Build, Integration, Testing
• Days 22-27: Continuous Delivery & Deployment

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