Ivaylo Sharkov is a seasoned Software Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience managing all operational aspects of software development for enterprise-class products. He has worked with companies like GE, Nike, Bank of America and Virgin, and has served as a lead Cloud and Scalability Practice Unit Manager at ScaleFocus. Sharkov is also a proficient consultant, having provided technical and people leadership for multiple, diverse and geographically distributed teams. He is experienced in technologies such as Java, Docker, distributed computing and DBMS like Oracle, MySQL, as well as in scalability, performance and e2e testing. Sharkov is a self-starter with proven experience managing multiple priorities and is passionate about connecting with other peers and engineers.

Sharkov's educational background includes a Master of Engineering from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, and Master of Science and Master of Engineering in Engineering from Technical University of Sofia. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering from Technical University of Sofia.

Sharkov has worked as a Staff Engineer at VMware and as Manager Engineering, Emerging Products at Cisco Systems. He has also held various management positions for Cisco, including Manager Engineering, Cisco Webex Social and Manager Engineering, Cisco Mail. Prior to his work at Cisco, Sharkov was a team leader for Postpath and a hardware manager at Gameloft.