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Sofia, Bulgaria

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Feb 2025 - Present
Sofia, Bulgaria

Founder

Populosoft

Position summary
Founder at Populosoft
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Marketing
Product Development
Quality Assurance

Founded Populosoft, which specialises in Quality Assurance and App Development, and is a small upcoming company with 2 people. We take contract work as well as build our own products/services in our free time.

  • Built a SaaS called mathsolver.eu
  • Built and launched simple Web Apps in the first three months of founding the company, e.g., bmicalculator.eu
  • Working to achieve the marketing and growth objectives of Populosoft
  • Handled small freelancing projects involving the development and testing of Replit MVPs
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Sofia, Bulgaria

Member of Technical Staff - III

Broadcom Inc. (Symantec/Carbon Black)

Position summary
Member of Technical Staff - III at Broadcom Inc. (Symantec/Carbon Black)
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance

Leading the effort to ensure that VMware solutions have expected

  • Responsible for designing and executing performance and resilience tests for VMware security solutions
  • Working with Python and the Locust framework to design and execute scalable tests and build them into the CI pipeline.
  • Debugging non-functional problems
  • Defining tools and technologies to be used for our future performance and resilience projects
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
Sofia, Bulgaria

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Broadcom Inc. (Symantec/Carbon Black)

Position summary
Senior Member of Technical Staff at Broadcom Inc. (Symantec/Carbon Black)
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development

Worked at Broadcom Inc., which is a global leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. Led a small team of 5 Performance and Scale engineers as a technical leader, facilitating daily technical discussions, etc. I was:

  • Troubleshooting deep technical issues in Carbon Black Cloud architectures
  • Recommending architecture and tuning improvements across Carbon Black Cloud microservices
  • Executing scale and performance campaigns for Carbon Black Cloud's microservices
  • Validating individual microservices' performance and resilience aspects
  • Guiding teammates in analyzing performance test requirements, choosing the right frameworks and technologies, etc.
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Sofia, Bulgaria

Associate Software Test Architect

Musala Soft

Position summary
Associate Software Test Architect at Musala Soft
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance

During this timeframe, I led and designed the performance testing framework while mentoring teammates. I was:

  • Responsible for the overall performance and resilience testing effort for our client, Attraqt Plc.
  • Building CI pipelines using GitLab CI
  • Reporting and helping in fixing the performance and resilience issues
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Sofia, Bulgaria

Senior QA Engineer

Musala Soft

Position summary
Senior QA Engineer at Musala Soft
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
Explore QA Engineer

I led an overhaul of the performance testing solution for our client, Attraqt Plc., which provides search and merchandising services to corporations like ASOS and Adidas. As part of my job, I deployed and tested scalable search and ranking clusters in AWS. As part of this project, I was:

  • Working with Elastic Stack (formerly ELK Stack) to create a single view of application and system performance
  • Working with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm to better incorporate the microservices architecture for testing needs
  • Assisting the teammates in debugging complex performance and resilience-related issues
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Sofia, Bulgaria

Software Performance Test Engineer

Axway

Position summary
Software Performance Test Engineer at Axway
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
Explore QA Engineer

Worked on extending and maintaining the performance testing solution for the Secure Transport solution at Axway. My roles and responsibilities included:

  • Using Ansible to automate infrastructure for setting up the test bed
  • Creating a fast feedback loop for new development and reporting newly introduced performance issues as quickly as 24 hours
  • Benchmark Secure Transport clusters in the AWS cloud
  • Working with the NoSQL database MongoDB for reporting all performance test results
  • Working with performance testing tools like JMeter, Axway Automated Test System, etc.
Jul 2014 - Nov 2017
Noida, India

Senior Software Engineer - Performance Testing

Sopra Steria

Position summary
Senior Software Engineer - Performance Testing at Sopra Steria
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance

As a senior team member, my responsibilities for the EBICS gateway performance testing solution were extended. I worked on enhancing and maintaining the performance testing solution for EBICS Gateway at Axway.

  • Responsible for executing all performance tests, reporting new issues, and assisting the development team in resolving them
  • Analyzing, aggregating, and summarizing performance testing result data using Tableau and Excel Pivot tables
Jul 2014 - Nov 2017
Noida, India

Software Engineer - Performance Testing

Sopra Steria

Position summary
Software Engineer - Performance Testing at Sopra Steria
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Quality Assurance

Worked on developing a performance testing solution for EBICS Gateway at Axway. My roles and responsibilities included:

  • Designing, developing, and maintaining a fully automated continuous Software performance/resilience testing automation suite
  • Performing Software performance bottleneck analysis and recommending tuning guidelines
  • Developing Java-based automation suites

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Experienced in Information Technology.

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Experienced in Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Product Development, and Marketing.

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Summary

Experienced engineering leader with extensive experience in the design and development of highly performant solutions with a focus on quality. Worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Broadcom Inc, a trillion-dollar IT company. Good knowledge of writing automation. Honing leadership skills at Harvard Business School Online.

Skills

  • Performance And Resilience
  • Java
  • Python
  • Data Analysis
  • Maven
  • Git
  • Shell Scripting
  • Testng
  • Gatling
  • Jmeter
  • Locust
  • Axway
  • Ebics Gateway
  • Secure Transport
  • Api Gateway
  • Sentinel
  • Passport
  • Oracle
  • Mssql
  • Mysql
  • Apache Kafka
  • Aws Kinesis
  • Mongodb
  • Elastic Stack, Including Kibana, Beats, And Logstash
  • Zabbix
  • Nmon
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • Studio 3t
  • Tableau
  • Intellij
  • Functional Automation Testing
  • Aws
  • Ceph S3
  • Apache Kafka
  • Manual Testing
  • Svn
  • C++
  • Eclipse

Languages

English
Advanced
Hindi
Advanced
Bulgarian
Elementary

Education

Jul 2010 - May 2014

SRMS

Bachelor of Technology · Computer Science and Engineering · Bareilly, India

Certifications & licenses

Certificate of Specialization in Leadership and Management

Harvard Business School Online

Credential of Readiness

Harvard Business School Online

Set up a full Elastic Stack to Monitor Product Logs

JMeter – Performance and Load Testing

LinkedIn Learning

Core Java

Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide

Dockerized Testing with Confidence

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Experience

Total positions 8
Experience in Information Technology 12.5 y
Avg length 2 y 7 m
Longest experience 3 y 7 m

Global experience

Countries worked in 2 (Bulgaria, India)
Primary country Bulgaria

Expertise

Recent roles Founder, Member of Technical Staff - III, Senior Member of Technical Staff
Main industries Information Technology
Main business areas Information Technology, Quality Assurance, Product Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Bachelor
Certifications earned 7
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Rohit is based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Rohit speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), Hindi (Advanced), Bulgarian (Elementary).

Rohit has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Rohit has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 6 months. Note that Rohit may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Rohit would be well-suited for roles such as: Founder, Member of Technical Staff - III, Senior Member of Technical Staff.

Rohit's most recent position is Founder at Populosoft.

In recent years, Rohit has worked for Populosoft and Broadcom Inc. (Symantec/Carbon Black).

Rohit is most experienced in industries like Information Technology.

Rohit is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Quality Assurance, and Product Development. Rohit also has some experience in Marketing.

Rohit has recently worked in industries like Information Technology.

Rohit has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.

Rohit holds a Bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering from SRMS.

Rohit has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: Certificate of Specialization in Leadership and Management, Credential of Readiness, and Set up a full Elastic Stack to Monitor Product Logs.

Rohit is immediately available for suitable projects.

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