My name is Toddy S Mladenov. I am a Principal Product Management Manager at Microsoft, working on various efforts involving a secure supply chain for containers, open-source software, container registries, and Kubernetes. I am also a CTO and co-founder of Agitare Technologies, Inc. a broadband, software, and hardware reseller.
Professionally I deal with technology, but I also enjoy working with students and sharing my knowledge. This is my personal blog (and, of course, all opinions are my own;)) where I write about different topics related to technology; I try to explain things simply and logically because technology is here to help people and not to make their lives miserable (although sometimes it does the latter:)).
I like to sail, mountain bike, and ski; I used to run two local communities: CloudTalk and Machine Learning For Business; I was also part of the Technical Advisory Committee for North Seattle College.
Bio
I started my technology career in 1993 as an intern assembling PCs for my brother’s company in Bulgaria. After graduating from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1996 I tried to build my own PC components distribution business but failed, mainly because of hyperinflation and lack of experience. Over the next few years I worked for various companies in Bulgaria, among which were multi-national PC and software distributor CHS Electronics, German CAD/CAM software maker Nemetschek, and the networking giant (at the time) 3Com.
In 2001 I moved to Germany and joined a small startup developing banking software. After two years of hard work and a lot of sleepless nights writing Java and LotusScript code, I had to look for other opportunities and SAP came into the picture. I’ve spent two years with them designing and developing a J2EE application for their software deployment process as well as bridging the communication with teams from the recently acquired company in Bulgaria.
In 2005 I moved to the US and started with Microsoft as Program Manager in MSN/Windows Live team. Soon after I became a manager for a team of PMs, and our Org joined Windows Client. I stayed with the Windows team until Windows 7 was released (yes, I shipped it!) and joined Microsoft Azure a few months before its official General Availability announcement. As part of the Developer Experience team in Azure, I had the opportunity to touch on different parts of the stack – from the OS, networking, and storage to management APIs, management portal, and SDKs to interact with the Open Source communities and putting OSS frameworks on the platform.
After Azure, I worked in a Sales Engineering capacity for the private PaaS startup Apprenda before building my own consulting company. After that, I worked with small and large enterprises for several years to implement modern cloud and big data solutions. Some of the companies I worked with include Microsoft, T-Mobile, and CenturyLink. Now, I work on the Azure Containers team at Microsoft. I lead the product management team in charge of Azure Container Registry (ACR), Microsoft Artifact Registry (MAR), and Cloud-Native Secure Supply Chain (CSSC).
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