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Hristo M. Hristov

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Hristo M. Hristov

Hristo is a data and analytics leader with more than 25 years of experience across team leadership, solution architecture, data engineering, business intelligence, and database development.

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Leadership & transformation

  • Leads data and analytics teams and solution architecture, including a major analytical-product transformation to Microsoft Azure Synapse.
  • Grew a data and analytics team to three times its previous size and created growth paths, onboarding, training, and DevOps practices.
  • Established a Customer & Commercial Data and Analytics Center of Excellence team, including hiring, processes, and ceremonies.

Architecture & engineering

  • Architected Azure-based data and analytics solutions, corporate data warehouses, data models, processing pipelines, and reports.
  • Built an external-provider marketing analytics system and modernized an internal product interface with Django and React.
  • Brings practical experience with Python, Git, Databricks, Azure SQL Database, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL Server, MicroStrategy, APEX, Perl, SPSS, InfoBright, and AWS.

Career foundation

Earlier roles included multinational BI project leadership at Telenor Bulgaria, business-intelligence section leadership at Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile, and software and database engineering at Rila Solutions and Progress CAD R&D Centre.

Education, skills & credentials

Education

  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski — Doctoral studies in Informatics, 2006–2009. Topic: Integration of information; coursework in databases, data integration, and data mining.
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski — Master of Science in Informatics, 1996–2001.

IT expertise

Microsoft Azure — advanced; Python — intermediate; SQL — advanced; DAX — intermediate; Microsoft Power BI — intermediate; Scrum — advanced; Oracle — intermediate.

Languages

Bulgarian — mother tongue; English — excellent; Russian — intermediate; German — basic.

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Oracle 8 Database Administrator.