Hristo Georgiev
Software Engineer & Engineering Manager
Professional Summary
Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in software development, cloud infrastructure, and AI services. Proven track record of leading engineering teams, architecting scalable microservices, developing products and delivering high-impact solutions across diverse industries including media, finance, and technology. Expert in Go, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, and modern DevOps practices. Experience with semantic web, knowledge graphs, RAG pipelines, hosting inference workloads, and building cloud managed services. Currently leading AI development at Redis, previously Principal Engineer at Financial Times.
Work Experience
January 2025 - Present
Principal Software Engineer - AI
Redis, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Leading AI Services development and architecture at Redis
- Architecting and delivering scalable hosting infrastructure for inference workloads in Redis Cloud
- Developing Redis semantic caching solution - cloud managed service, on-prem, SDKs
- Built and launched Redis Context Surfaces - a product for the data driven Agentic AI world
April 2022 - January 2025
Principal Software Engineer / Senior Manager - FT Pro
Financial Times, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Closely collaborated with product and design teams to deliver FT's first RAG solution - AskFT - https://ask.ft.com/
- Developed content processing pipeline with classifiers for Enterprise customers
- Pioneered GraphQL federation in the organization
- Managing people, hiring, recruitment framework, career progression ladder
- Grew FT Labs and Enterprise from 2 to 6 teams
December 2019 - April 2022
Head Of Technology (Bulgaria)
Xoomworks Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Led technology operations and team management for Bulgarian office
- Managed technology guilds and developing local talent
December 2018 - August 2021
Team Lead - Financial Times
Xoomworks Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Tech lead and team lead for Financial Times projects
- Orchestrating content publishing pipeline on top of k8s with ~150 microservices - Go/Golang, Java, Python, Kubernetes, Helm, Kafka, AWS, ElasticSearch, MongoDB
- working with FT's Knowledge Graph - semanic web
July 2016 - December 2018
Senior Developer
Xoomworks Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Node.js development with AWS Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS
- DynamoDB, MySQL, ElasticSearch, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework
- CI/CD with CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy
November 2012 - June 2016
Senior Developer
Comstream, Sofia, Bulgaria / Stockholm, Sweden
- Full-stack development with PHP, JavaScript/Node.js, Symfony
- MySQL, SOAP, REST APIs
April 2010 - September 2012
CTO / Technical Co-Founder
42soft, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Working on web based real-time strategy game.
- Tech lead, recruitment, team management, software architecture, community building
September 2009 - April 2010
Web Developer
Admin Corporation, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
- Working on online store in PHP with CodeIgniter
Technical Skills
Languages
Cloud & Infrastructure
Technologies & Tools
DevOps & CI/CD
Education
2007 - 2009
Computer Science
Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1996 - 2007
High School
German Language School, Ruse, Bulgaria