Bulgaria

Technical Product Management

Program Management

Project Management

Kristiyan Yordanov

UX Bulgaria

Senior Engineering Manager

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Project management

ChatGPT

Java

Stakeholder management

Team player

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Crafted and delivered soft, process and leadership skills trainings - Effective Communication for IT teams; Present and Up-sell for IT; Dev Lead Academy, Agile Project Management BootCamp; Adaptive Leadership; AI for productivity.

Built and led four self-organized and cross-functional teams(25-30 engineers), owning the entire software development life-cycle of three business-critical SaaS Services designed to automate and streamline sales, pricing, delivery, and technical account management for the global Professional Services team. Team: Full-stack Java-Angular developers, Q&A, DevOps, and Support - a total of 25+ engineers from Bulgaria and India.
Led a high-performance engineering culture that focused on agility, growth, delivery, technical excellence, a customer-centric approach, and innovation.
Built trustworthy and productive relationships with the leadership, peer managers, product partners, 3rd party internal services, and stakeholders from Professional Services and Customer Experience organizations.
Drove technical modernization in quality, maintainability, security, CI/CD, observation, and compliance.

Built and led two self-organized and cross-functional teams, owning the entire software development life-cycle of a business-critical SaaS Services designed to automate and streamline sales, pricing, delivery, and technical account management for the global Professional Services team. Team: Full-stack Java-Angular developers.
Led a high-performance engineering culture that focused on agility, growth, delivery, technical excellence, a customer-centric approach, and innovation.
Facilitated internal L&D initiatives and measurement of efficiency and productivity of the team members.

I started as a software engineer, and since July 2018, I have taken on various roles, including scrum master, product owner, project manager, release manager, and people development, among others.

My team worked on Java middle-ware system for real time betting.

My team built Calypso Banking Testing Framework. Full stack Java development and RMI. I was assigned to integrate our software onsite in Unicredit Germany.

As a software developer, I worked on a number of web business platforms built with Java-Javasript full stack.

Kristiyan Yordanov🇧🇬