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Ivo Georgiev

Electrical Engineering graduate from Stanford, with PhD in Computer Science from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Currently working as entrеpreneur at Ambaric Searchlight.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: Business, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Management, Software Engineering
Location: Lafayette, CO
Groups: E-Challenge Competition 2009, Social e-challenge Competition 2009 [inactive], [INACTIVE] BASES E-Challenge 2010
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: citizen journalism, live streaming, local media, mobile, open source
Schools: Stanford University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Ambaric Searchlight, Sofia, Bulgaria
Position: Entrеpreneur
Time period: August 2008 - Present

Employer: Investor.BG, Sofia, Bulgaria
Position: Director of Business Development
Time period: December 2007 - July 2008
Description: • established Business Development department to manage strategy and expansion, recruited staff
• mapped out the production process and laid the foundation of a Project Management Office

Employer: Lessno, Sofia, Bulgaria
Position: CTO
Time period: December 2006 - November 2007
Description: • recruited and managed the engineering, project management, and QA teams
• managed the design of a next-generation air travel search engine

Employer: Jeteye, San Francisco, CA
Position: Director of Engineering
Time period: December 2003 - November 2006
Description: • developed the JetpakTM Web-container concept and managed the product requirements
• developed two XML protocols, enterprise system, and custom search engine
• recruited and managed engineering team, offshore developers, QAE, and summer interns

Employer: CAPS, San Francisco, CA
Position: Senior Software Engineer
Time period: December 2001 - November 2003
Description: • designed a real-time system for tracking and lifecycle management for a fleet of reusable containers
• managed in-house and off-shore engineering and IT

Employer: Data Digest, San Carlos, CA
Position: Staff Software Engineer
Time period: December 2000 - November 2002
Description: • developed fast in-memory algorithms for probability distribution caching
• designed ETL, application, and presentation tiers of flagship visual Bayesian data modeler

Employer: ImproveNet, Redwood City, CA
Position: Systems Analyst
Time period: December 1998 - November 2001
Description: • designed and developed database and application tiers for the online contractor matching system
• developed Web-based cost estimation tools and designed a database-driven automatic tool generator

EDUCATION

University: Stanford University
Time period: 1999
Degree: Electrical Engineering, BSc

Ivo's Startups (1)

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  • SwarmServe

    SwarmServe is an integrated non-proprietary vertical solution for independent mobile live citizen journalism. Hard to censor. Hyper-local. Ubiquitous.