--- title: Vasil Shivachev | Senior Product Owner, AI and Infrastructure url: https://shivachev.net/ updated: 2026-09-24 --- # Vasil Shivachev Turning complex technology into business impact. I'm Vasil Shivachev, Senior Product Owner at iris.ai. Before that, I spent 20 years running IT operations, infrastructure and DevOps teams. - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivachev/ - CV (PDF): https://shivachev.net/cv.pdf - Email: vasil.g.shivachev@gmail.com - Location: Sofia, Bulgaria ## Impact A track record built around outcomes. Results from my roles at Kasha and Identrics. - **10K+** users per minute on infrastructure I architected at Kasha - **80%** cloud cost reduction at Kasha - **EUR 2M+** in EU co-funded projects led at Identrics - **92%** of manual work automated with AI/NLP at Identrics ## Experience From infrastructure to strategy. ### iris.ai (2026 - now) **Senior Product Owner.** Leading product strategy and delivery for AI-powered enterprise solutions, bridging customer needs, business objectives, and engineering execution. ### Kasha (2024 - 2026) **Head of IT Operations.** Led IT operations, infrastructure, security and cross-functional technology teams. Built automated environments, scaled cloud infrastructure, delivered compliance and drove major cloud-cost optimization. Tags: GCP, PCI DSS v4, ISO 27001, SOC 2 ### Identrics (2017 - 2024) - **COO / Head of Operations & Technology (2017 - 2024).** Ran company-wide operations and technology in an AI-focused organization. Led engineering, data, DevOps and project teams, plus AI initiatives and EU-funded programmes exceeding EUR 2M. - **DevOps Engineer (2017 - 2018).** Built CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI product development. Tags: AI / NLP, EU Projects ### A Data Pro (2018 - 2021) - **Head of DevOps & Infrastructure (2020 - 2021).** Led the transformation from bare metal to Proxmox and hybrid cloud, built the DevOps team and introduced CI/CD, environment separation, monitoring and infrastructure standards. - **Head of IT Operations, PM & QA (2018 - 2021).** Led IT operations, project delivery and QA while building teams and introducing Agile delivery, governance and automation across business-critical initiatives. Tags: Proxmox, CI/CD, Agile ### Reset Computers (2003 - 2016) **Co-Owner & Operations Manager.** Built hands-on experience in entrepreneurship, retail operations, P&L management, recruitment, customer relationships and running a technology business. ## Selected work The problems I like solving. The common thread: make technology useful, scalable and understandable to the people who depend on it. - **Infrastructure for high traffic (Kasha, scale).** I architected and ran a microservices platform that handles 10,000 users per minute, and led the migration from DigitalOcean to Google Cloud with zero downtime. - **From bare metal to hybrid cloud (A Data Pro, transformation).** I moved the company from bare-metal servers to Proxmox virtualization and a hybrid cloud during the COVID-19 transition, so the whole organization could work remotely and securely. - **Research workflows turned into products (Identrics, AI automation).** I delivered AI/NLP use cases such as adverse media entity detection, which automated up to 92% of previously manual work. - **Certified for enterprise customers (Kasha, governance).** I built the security and compliance foundations and delivered PCI DSS v4 Level 1, ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 certifications. ## How I work Technology is a team sport. - **Connect the dots.** Business goals, product needs, technical constraints and customer reality belong in the same conversation. - **Build for reuse.** Prefer platforms, patterns and processes that make the next delivery faster instead of reinventing every solution. - **Make it measurable.** Scale, cost, reliability, automation and customer outcomes are better signals than activity alone. ## Public voice AI should move fast. Accountability should move faster. Interviews, talks and articles on AI, disinformation and technology accountability. > I care about the space between what AI can do and what organisations are ready to take responsibility for. - [Recent risks of AI](https://www.bloombergtv.bg/a/17-v-razvitie/162689-izkustveniyat-intelekt-ne-izprevarva-regulatsiite-te-lipsvat) - Bloomberg TV Bulgaria, expert interview, 04 Aug 2026 - [Disinformation, AI and elections](https://www.bgonair.bg/a/5-science/416243-glasat-ni-e-pod-risk-zaradi-dezinformatsiiite-i-ai-alarmirat-kibereksperti) - Bulgaria ON AIR, expert interview, 19 Apr 2026 - [AI-generated political content](https://www.bgonair.bg/a/227-izbori-2026/413817-eksperti-partiite-zalivat-tiktok-s-ai-generirano-sadarzhanie) - Bulgaria ON AIR, expert interview, 25 Mar 2026 - [Tackling disinformation](https://csd.eu/events/event/tackling-disinformation-a-coordinated-approach-for-bulgaria/) - Center for the Study of Democracy, participant, 07 Dec 2023 - [AI and disinformation](https://www.bgonair.bg/a/36-sutreshen-blok/324678-ekspert-balgariya-e-platforma-za-testvane-na-nachini-za-dezinformatsiya) - Bulgaria ON AIR, expert interview, 06 Nov 2023 - [Foreign disinformation and technology](https://csd.eu/events/event/building-resilience-to-foreign-authoritarian-disinformation-in-southeast-europe/) - Center for the Study of Democracy, speaker, 22 Feb 2023 - [AI and actionable knowledge](https://identrics.ai/blog/recap-of-technologies-against-disinformation-2023/) - Technologies Against Disinformation 2.0, speaker, 2023 - [Technology against disinformation](https://brodhub.eu/en/news/technologies-against-disinformation-2-0-co-organized-by-brod-gathered-the-best-tech-companies-in-bulgaria/) - BROD, closing speaker, 2023 - [AI at Identrics](https://www.capital.bg/biznes/predpriemach/2019/09/05/3959150_internet_kakvo_mi_kazvash/) - Capital, article, 2019 ## Contact Have a difficult technology problem? Let's talk about AI, product, infrastructure, operations, or the organisational mess sitting between them. - Email: vasil.g.shivachev@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivachev/