Alex Yochev
Helping developers code smarter, not harder. Works @ Microsoft on GitHub Copilot and AI coding agents, making the future of software development happen—one prompt at a time.
ex-CiscoI help developers code smarter, not harder. As a Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft, I focus on developer productivity and AI-powered platforms like GitHub and GitHub Copilot.
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For the past three years, I’ve been part of a global team exploring the future of software development—where humans and AI collaborate to build better code. With 20+ years in software engineering, I’ve worn many hats: developer, architect, team lead, and evangelist—working with industry leaders like IBM, Cisco, and now Microsoft. My current passion? AI coding agents and context engineering, because great prompts are the new great algorithms. I love turning complex topics into “aha!” moments for developer communities worldwide. Expect insights on DevOps, cloud-native apps, and AI-assisted coding—always with a practical edge and a dash of humor. ML Ops, AI Agents, DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud Native, Large scale Web Apps and content creation.
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- MICROSOFTJOB
- Technical Specialist2Y 6M
Technical Specialist / Global Black Belt - Dev Tools & Platform Engineering at Microsoft EMEA
Microsoft
As a Global Black Belt I'm a senior solution sales professional within Microsoft's enterprise sales organization with a strong technical background in the domain of Software Development workloads. I am focusing on expanding and deepening relationships and satisfaction with enterprise developers and engineering leads, building a compelling strategy for enhancing Developer Productivity GitHub and Azure. Technical intensity on DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, cloud-native application architecture (containers, microservices, API management), Kubernetes, GitHub.
- Azure Application Innovati…3Y 6M
Azure Application Innovation Lead for CEE and MEA
Microsoft
Build, migrate and modernize applications on Microsoft Azure. Working across sales, operations, marketing, and partner landscape to ensure a cohesive workflow that drives adoption of Microsoft Azure services in 100+ countries with clear business outcome. My focus is on migrating .NET, Java, and OSS applications, building net new cloud native applications with Azure PaaS and Azure Kubernetes and driving developer productivity with GitHub and GitHub Co-pilot. I’m working with technical and business decision makers as well as in-house and boarder developer communities.
- Azure Developer Audience L…4Y 3M
Azure Developer Audience Lead / Go to Market Manager CEE
Microsoft
Azure Developer Audience Lead / Go to Market Manager
- Open Source on Azure Lead4Y 10M
Open Source on Azure Lead / Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft CEE
Microsoft
Leading the Open Source on Azure business for 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. driving Go-To-Market strategy to deliver customer & partner success, resulting in market penetration and utilization of Azure OSS portfolio of services.
- Cloud Solution Architect7Y 6M
Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
Working with Microsoft partners and customers on building and migrating application using Azure. Focus on apps and infrastructure: DevOps, Azure DevOps, GitHub, App service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containers, Web Applications, MLOps and DataOps. Helping partners in consolidating and shaping owned intellectual property into repeatable solutions and product offerings.
- Senior Technical Evangelis…10Y 4M
Senior Technical Evangelist, Developer Expirence team
Microsoft
Working in DX team in Multi Country region. Talking to startups, ISV, students and tech communities to drive broad awareness, up-skill and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies. Focused on OSS, Web Apps, IoT and DevOps. Speaking and presenting at events, coding, prototyping, discussing technology.
- Technical Evangelist, One…1Y 10M
Technical Evangelist, One Commercial Partner team CEE
Microsoft
Represent Microsoft to the partner ecosystem, communicate the tech strategy, vision and bring partners along in the digital transformation journey. Work with portfolio of managed partners to deliver relevant software products, repeatable solutions and services on Microsoft platform. Tech Evangelist (TE) builds trusted CXO relationships and manage technical engagements with partners. Drive partner technical qualification process and gain/maintain a strong understanding of the partner business model and strategies. TE is responsible for the successful skills and talent development of partners to provide solutions and services. Facilitate the solution development process, ensuring the partner…
- GITHUBJOB
- Solutions Eng2Y 2M
Solutions Engineer
GitHub
- INTRACOL TECHNOLOGIESJOB
- CTO1Y 6M
CTO
Intracol Technologies
As a CTO of Intracol Technologies I’m interacting with the company technical and management team in the identification, evaluation and development of technical solutions. As part of the management team I’m involved in guiding and developing our technological and business strategy as well as supporting our pre-sales team - meeting prospective customers and outlining technical solutions. As part of the technical team I’m actively involved in assessing new technologies, developing prototypes and delivering projects.
- CISCOJOB
- Technical Leader4Y 1M
Technical Leader
Cisco
Promote alignment and cohesion of team(s) by sharing knowledge of the product, technology, architecture, technical direction and alignment with customers and Cisco strategy. Help resolve technical tradeoffs, weighing both the benefits and drawbacks of technical solution options tempered by both operational and business considerations, and make decisions or recommendations for the best technical direction. Act as the external technical interface for the product or technology area. Articulate technical issues to both technical and non‐technical audiences that do not share the same level of expertise in the technology or product area. Member of Cisco Patent Committee for the Collaborati…
- STANGAJOB
- Technical Mgr1Y 3M
Technical Manager
Stanga
Meet with clients in gathering project and product requirements. Provide a technical solution and high-level architecture. Work on the initial estimation in terms of people and resources required for the project. Manage teams and projects on a day-to-day basis. Review and organize product and project development schedules. Communicate the schedules and progress with clients. Work on technological solution prototype and support daily software development effort
- Chief Technology Officer6Y 10M
Chief Technology Officer
Stanga
• Consult and support the sales department • Organize and optimize the internal project workflow • Supervise and technically lead teams on day-to-day basis • Define deadlines and deliverables for established projects • Build technical architecture and specification for upcoming projects • Ensure the quality of the final product • Research and development over new technologies • Assign internal training projects
- WEBRIX SOFTWAREJOB
- CEO1Y 4M
CEO
WEBRIX SOFTWARE
I have started software company focused on Software Development Consulting and development of Internet and Intranet applications. I'm responsible for organizing the entire company workflow, starting from meetings with clients to organizing the software development and all support activities. I'm also the IT architect of the company’s internal product for rapid Internet and Intranet application development called RUEDA.
- IBMJOB
- IT Architect1Y 11M
IT Architect
IBM
• Support pre-sales activities by providing technical outlines or products shortlist • Meet with clients in order to understand client needs and outline requirements • Review existing clients application stack. Based on the acquired information review and shortlist existing IBM solutions, products and projects and propose and document solutions. • Create technical prove of concept (POC), depending on POC size either by myself or leading small development team. Document the process and present results to internal steering committee and/or client. • Participate in various project development and delivery phases by creating specifications, documentation, models or software modules and prototyp…
- WEB.BGJOB
- Software Developer2Y 11M
Software Developer
Web.BG
Software development • Design and create news publishing system and web portal • Support the online publication of printed magazine and newspaper
- Job: Microsoft — Technical Specialist / Global Black Belt - Dev Tools & Platform Engineering at Microsoft EMEA · 2024-04 – present · 2y 4mo — As a Global Black Belt I'm a senior solution sales professional within Microsoft's enterprise sales organization with a strong technical background in the domain of Software Development workloads. I am focusing on expanding and deepening relationships and satisfaction with enterprise developers and engineering leads, building a compelling strategy for enhancing Developer Productivity GitHub and Azure. Technical intensity on DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, cloud-native application architecture (containers, microservices, API management), Kubernetes, GitHub.
- Job: Microsoft — Azure Application Innovation Lead for CEE and MEA · 2023-04 – present · 3y 4mo — Build, migrate and modernize applications on Microsoft Azure. Working across sales, operations, marketing, and partner landscape to ensure a cohesive workflow that drives adoption of Microsoft Azure services in 100+ countries with clear business outcome. My focus is on migrating .NET, Java, and OSS applications, building net new cloud native applications with Azure PaaS and Azure Kubernetes and driving developer productivity with GitHub and GitHub Co-pilot. I’m working with technical and business decision makers as well as in-house and boarder developer communities.
- Job: Microsoft — Azure Developer Audience Lead / Go to Market Manager CEE · 2022-07 – present · 4y 1mo — Azure Developer Audience Lead / Go to Market Manager
- Job: Microsoft — Open Source on Azure Lead / Product Marketing Manager - Microsoft CEE · 2021-12 – present · 4y 8mo — Leading the Open Source on Azure business for 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. driving Go-To-Market strategy to deliver customer & partner success, resulting in market penetration and utilization of Azure OSS portfolio of services.
- Job: Microsoft — Cloud Solution Architect · 2019-04 – present · 7y 4mo — Working with Microsoft partners and customers on building and migrating application using Azure. Focus on apps and infrastructure: DevOps, Azure DevOps, GitHub, App service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Containers, Web Applications, MLOps and DataOps. Helping partners in consolidating and shaping owned intellectual property into repeatable solutions and product offerings.
- Job: Microsoft — Senior Technical Evangelist, Developer Expirence team · 2016-06 – present · 10y 2mo — Working in DX team in Multi Country region. Talking to startups, ISV, students and tech communities to drive broad awareness, up-skill and adoption of Microsoft platform technologies. Focused on OSS, Web Apps, IoT and DevOps. Speaking and presenting at events, coding, prototyping, discussing technology.
- Job: Microsoft — Technical Evangelist, One Commercial Partner team CEE · 2017-07 – 2019-05 · 1y 10mo — Represent Microsoft to the partner ecosystem, communicate the tech strategy, vision and bring partners along in the digital transformation journey. Work with portfolio of managed partners to deliver relevant software products, repeatable solutions and services on Microsoft platform. Tech Evangelist (TE) builds trusted CXO relationships and manage technical engagements with partners. Drive partner technical qualification process and gain/maintain a strong understanding of the partner business model and strategies. TE is responsible for the successful skills and talent development of partners to provide solutions and services. Facilitate the solution development process, ensuring the partner…
- Job: GitHub — Solutions Engineer · 2024-08 – present · 2y
- Job: Intracol Technologies — CTO · 2014-12 – 2016-06 · 1y 6mo — As a CTO of Intracol Technologies I’m interacting with the company technical and management team in the identification, evaluation and development of technical solutions. As part of the management team I’m involved in guiding and developing our technological and business strategy as well as supporting our pre-sales team - meeting prospective customers and outlining technical solutions. As part of the technical team I’m actively involved in assessing new technologies, developing prototypes and delivering projects.
- Job: Cisco — Technical Leader · 2010-11 – 2014-12 · 4y 1mo — Promote alignment and cohesion of team(s) by sharing knowledge of the product, technology, architecture, technical direction and alignment with customers and Cisco strategy. Help resolve technical tradeoffs, weighing both the benefits and drawbacks of technical solution options tempered by both operational and business considerations, and make decisions or recommendations for the best technical direction. Act as the external technical interface for the product or technology area. Articulate technical issues to both technical and non‐technical audiences that do not share the same level of expertise in the technology or product area. Member of Cisco Patent Committee for the Collaborati…
- Job: Stanga — Technical Manager · 2010-01 – 2011-04 · 1y 3mo — Meet with clients in gathering project and product requirements. Provide a technical solution and high-level architecture. Work on the initial estimation in terms of people and resources required for the project. Manage teams and projects on a day-to-day basis. Review and organize product and project development schedules. Communicate the schedules and progress with clients. Work on technological solution prototype and support daily software development effort
- Job: WEBRIX SOFTWARE — CEO · 2008-09 – 2010-01 · 1y 4mo — I have started software company focused on Software Development Consulting and development of Internet and Intranet applications. I'm responsible for organizing the entire company workflow, starting from meetings with clients to organizing the software development and all support activities. I'm also the IT architect of the company’s internal product for rapid Internet and Intranet application development called RUEDA.
- Job: IBM — IT Architect · 2007 – 2008 · 1y — • Support pre-sales activities by providing technical outlines or products shortlist • Meet with clients in order to understand client needs and outline requirements • Review existing clients application stack. Based on the acquired information review and shortlist existing IBM solutions, products and projects and propose and document solutions. • Create technical prove of concept (POC), depending on POC size either by myself or leading small development team. Document the process and present results to internal steering committee and/or client. • Participate in various project development and delivery phases by creating specifications, documentation, models or software modules and prototyp…
- Job: Stanga — Chief Technology Officer · 2000-06 – 2007-04 · 6y 10mo — • Consult and support the sales department • Organize and optimize the internal project workflow • Supervise and technically lead teams on day-to-day basis • Define deadlines and deliverables for established projects • Build technical architecture and specification for upcoming projects • Ensure the quality of the final product • Research and development over new technologies • Assign internal training projects
- Job: Web.BG — Software Developer · 1998 – 2000 · 2y — Software development • Design and create news publishing system and web portal • Support the online publication of printed magazine and newspaper
- School: University of Liverpool — Master’s Degree, Project Management
- School: Technical University Sofia — Bachelor, Information Technologies and Computer Systems
- School: ELSYS Sofia — Third level qualification, Computer Programming, Computer Science
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