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Boris Andonov

Boris Andonov

DevSecOps TL - Product Owner
Sofia,23

Summary

A passionate professional with a strong background in the FinTech industry, bringing deep expertise in payment processing, banking transactions, and the entire development lifecycle. Skilled at designing and implementing secure, scalable solutions that address complex challenges while fostering innovation and ensuring compliance with industry standards, including PCI DSS.
With hands-on experience in payment systems and advanced DevOps practices, my Team successfully delivered robust platforms that meet the fast-paced demands of the industry. My expertise in PCI DSS compliance ensures that the systems I develop prioritize security and protect sensitive financial data. As a collaborative leader, I excel at bringing together cross-functional teams, bridging technical and business needs through clear and effective communication. Known for a sharp attention to detail and a problem-solving mindset, I thrive on driving impactful results in the ever-evolving world of digital payments and banking technology.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

DevSecOps TL - Product Owner

Nuvei
10.2023 - Current

• Led the strategic implementation and management of critical enterprise security and development tools across Nuvei's global infrastructure, including Splunk, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube,
• Served dual role as Technical Product Owner and DevSecOps Team Leader, bridging technical operations with business objectives
• Orchestrated the end-to-end lifecycle management of external software platforms essential to Nuvei's global development and security operations
• Led the implementation of shift-left security practices by integrating automated security scanning and compliance checks into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring early detection of vulnerabilities
• Architected and maintained a comprehensive software security framework using JFrog Artifactory, implementing strict artifact management policies and dependency scanning
• Established security gates and quality thresholds in SonarQube for code quality assurance, enforcing secure coding standards across development teams globally
• Leveraged Splunk for advanced security monitoring and threat detection, implementing custom dashboards and alerts
• Managed platform enhancements and security implementations using Agile methodologies, leading regular sprint planning, retrospectives, and stakeholder reviews to ensure continuous improvement
• Established and maintained comprehensive technical documentation for all managed platforms, including user guides, troubleshooting procedures, and security protocols
• Provided tier-3 support for enterprise-wide development and security tools, leading incident resolution and conducting root cause analysis to prevent recurrence
• Managed end-to-end project lifecycle in Azure DevOps, including creating and maintaining boards, epics, user stories, and bugs, ensuring clear project visibility and tracking
• Facilitated regular stakeholder meetings, driving project alignment and progress tracking while maintaining clear communication channels between development teams and business stakeholders

DevOps Engineer

Nuvei
05.2020 - 10.2023
  • Perform daily based reviews with the assigned stakeholders
  • Documenting the branches roadmap and all related activities about Build and Test Teams
  • Architected and maintained scalable CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automating build, test, and deployment processes across multiple environments
  • Designed and implemented infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions across Azure and AWS cloud platforms, ensuring consistent and reproducible multi-cloud deployments
  • Orchestrated container orchestration and microservices architecture, optimizing application deployment and scalability in hybrid cloud environments
  • Established comprehensive monitoring solutions using Splunk, Dynatrace, and Nagios, implementing proactive incident response and performance optimization across the infrastructure
  • Designed and implemented containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes, improving resource utilization and management.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for critical systems, ensuring high availability and rapid issue resolution.
  • Improved project visibility and tracking with implementation of comprehensive dashboards and reporting tools.

Senior Solution Analyst

Experian
01.2019 - 05.2020

• Develop Business Solutions for Credit/Bank Industry
• Landing customer based use cases, by gathering customer requirements and specifications via workshops with the business consultants
• Working closely with stakeholders in order to build accurate environments aligned with the region expectations
• Elaborate business strategies via Experian One platform
• Creating/Assigning Jira tickets by Kanban Board across the assigned stakeholders(Build & Test Teams)
• Perform weekly based stakeholder reviews with presentation perspective
• Documenting the branches roadmap and all related activities about Build and Test Teams
• Software installation and configuration
• Create and Manage BitBucket Repos through Git
• Initiating Jenkins Pipelines and Openshift environments provisioning via API
• Processes integration
• Bugs and future enhancement logging through Jira, following the application life-cycle in Confluence

Senior Response Engineer

Micro Focus
11.2017 - 01.2019

• Supporting HPE Enterprise Operation/Monitoring Suite and all integrations related (Operation Bridge Reported/Service Health Reporter).

• Handling Application deploying process along with software configuration changes, applicable with all customer requirements.

• Closely working with R&D/PSO Teams about specific customization's and Knowledge Based Articles.

• Driving projects as troubleshooting plans and steps for easily environment maintenance (data loss prevention, bug tracking/logging, logs monitoring, etc).

• Further L3 support for all assigned accounts.

• Providing assistance for integration issues and processes about maintaining monitoring tools for enterprise environments across Operation Management portfolio.

• Creating weekly reports for all cases separated by severity, cooperation with the assigned resources and managing their further troubleshooting.

Security Engineer L2

Axway
08.2015 - 11.2017

• Supporting two of the main Axway products - SC MailGate and Syncplicity.

• Responsible for deploying and configure software configuration of the customer environment.

• Working with certificates and security protocols, mail relay policies and file transporting rules, over several security methods (data loss prevention, data security, email protection, etc).

• Providing L2-L3 technical support to USA based customers.

Batch and Scheduling

Hewlett Packard, HP
01.2015 - 08.2015

• Implement Bash and Shell based scripts using branch and bound procedure to solve the
test/production-planning issues. Non-production testing before •Production integration.

• Automation boundaries and dependencies setup, based on the environment properties and expectations.

• Documentation/description provisioning for all main automatically running jobs/scripts, running
into the customer environments.

Founder

The Ship Restaurant and Winery
01.2006 - 12.2015

Education

High School Diploma -

79th Indira Ghandi High School
Sofia, Bulgaria
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Naval Administration

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy
Varna, Bulgaria
04.2001 -

Skills

Agile methodology

Agile frameworks

Product planning

Product backlog management

Business analysis

Project management

Root-cause analysis

Multitasking

Excellent communication

Problem-solving

Timeline

DevSecOps TL - Product Owner

Nuvei
10.2023 - Current

DevOps Engineer

Nuvei
05.2020 - 10.2023

Senior Solution Analyst

Experian
01.2019 - 05.2020

Senior Response Engineer

Micro Focus
11.2017 - 01.2019

Security Engineer L2

Axway
08.2015 - 11.2017

Batch and Scheduling

Hewlett Packard, HP
01.2015 - 08.2015

Founder

The Ship Restaurant and Winery
01.2006 - 12.2015

High School Diploma -

79th Indira Ghandi High School
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Naval Administration

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy
04.2001 -
Boris AndonovDevSecOps TL - Product Owner