Peter Minev

Peter Minev

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Senior Vice President of Engineering
Berlin, Germany

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  • Albertine
    Board Member
    Albertine
    Oct 2024 - Current (2 years)
  • Titanbay
    Product Executive Board Member
    Titanbay
    Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 9 months)
  • DGLegacy
    Board Member, DGLegacy
    DGLegacy
    Mar 2021 - Current (5 years 7 months)
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    Chief Technology and Product Officer
    APCOA GROUP
    Sep 2023 - Jun 2026 (2 years 10 months)
  • CLARK
    Group CPTO
    CLARK
    Jan 2023 - Aug 2023 (8 months)
  • CLARK
    Group CTO
    CLARK
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2023 (1 year 9 months)
    Building the number one digital insurance broker in Europe!
  • Taager
    Technology Advisor
    Taager
    Jan 2021 - Feb 2023 (2 years 2 months)
  • Careem
    VP of Engineering/Head of Platform Engineering
    Careem
    Mar 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 2 months)
    - Managed and grew the Platform Engineering unit at Careem.
    - Built and successfully delivered the Careem Super App, embedding and replacing all company products - Ride-Hailing, Food, Payment, Logistics, Loyalty.
  • TOPStrengthener
    Co-Founder
    TOPStrengthener
    Feb 2019 - Feb 2023 (4 years 1 month)
  • Careem
    Strategic Engineering Advisor
    Careem
    Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 (6 months)
  • Careem
    Director Of Engineering and Site Lead, Careem R&D Center Berlin
    Careem
    Aug 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years 2 months)
    Director of Engineering of Careem R&D Center in Berlin. The role has end-to-end responsibility for the success of the the engineering organisation in Berlin and includes:
    - Building a tech team from 0 to 200 employees in 2 years.
    - Defining and driving the charter, roadmap and the technical vision of the projects in the engineering organisation in Berlin.
    - Defining and evolving the organizational structure and the operational design.
    - Responsibility for the success and the delivery of the engineering projects.
    - Building local recruitment, finance and HR teams.
    - Acting Managing Director for the German subsidiary of the company.
  • vmware
    Director, R&D
    vmware
    Mar 2015 - Jul 2016 (1 year 5 months)
    VMware ISBU Site Lead - successful establishment of the technology organization of the IS Business Unit at VMware and growing it to an exemplar engineering and product unit, with direct exposure to VMware CEO.
    Member of the Sofia site leadership team (managing 1200+ employees).
  • vmware
    Senior Manager
    vmware
    Jan 2011 - Mar 2015 (4 years 3 months)
    Managing a tech unit with teams in Palo Alto, Sofia and Bangalore, for creating IT infrastructure management solutions in the Cloud era.
  • SAP
    Development Project Manager
    SAP
    Mar 2008 - Dec 2010 (2 years 10 months)
  • Johnson Controls Automotive
    Lead R&D engineer
    Johnson Controls Automotive
    Jan 2006 - Feb 2008 (2 years 2 months)
  • Johnson Controls Automotive
    Software Lead
    Johnson Controls Automotive
    Jan 2003 - Dec 2005 (3 years)
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    SW Team Leader
    Applicata
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2002 (1 year)
    Technical Project Manager of the team responsible for the development of the Telecom platform of the company.
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    SW Engineer
    Applicata
    Nov 2000 - Dec 2001 (1 year 2 months)
    R&D Engineer building the Tesco platform of the company.
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  • ESMT Berlin
    EMBA
    ESMT Berlin
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 (2 years 1 month)
    Graduated With Honors.
  • Technical University of Sofia
    Master of Science (M.S, Engineering
    Technical University of Sofia
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2002 (4 years 1 month)
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    ESMT Alumni Leadership Achievement Award
    Issued by ESMT
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    2019 ESMT Leadership Achievement Award
    Issued by ESMT
    2019 ESMT Leadership Achievement Award, following the successful establishment of the engineering office of Careem in Berlin, Germany, which made a major contribution to the growth of the company and its successful acquisition by Uber for $3.1B.
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    Building Tech
    FEB
    Many companies are struggling to build successful tech organizations, which ultimately prevents them from fulfilling their business goals. The primary reason for this problem is that building a successful tech organization doesn’t depend on one single area.
    How you establish, build, and manage your projects, how you build and enhance your product roadmaps, how you communicate and collaborate with the business and the rest of the company, what is your staffing and placement plan and many other seemingly unrelated areas combine to form the bigger picture of a tech organization. Underestimating any of these areas might jeopardize the success of the whole tech unit and as a result - the success of the whole company. Throughout my experienc
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    Managing projects with Scrumban
    PMI Oct
    Since the adoption of the Lean principles by the software industry, the most widely spread project management framework was Scrum. It improves many of the pain points of the waterfall approach, but scrum still has many drawbacks which might hinder the project success and even push the teams to fall back into the old waterfall method.

    Other project methodology which has very positive effect in software projects is pure Kanban. Even though Kanban is probably the technique that is closest to pure Lean principles, it still has number of drawbacks and is applicable only in limited cases, primarily in service organizations and in operations.

    The publication showed how combining Scrum and Kanban in a technique called Scrumban
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