Trifon Anguelov

About Trifon Anguelov

As a technology executive with 20+ years of leadership experience, I specialize in building and scaling Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Cloud Operations, and Cybersecurity functions for SaaS and large-scale internet platforms. My passion lies in leading high-performing global teams, driving operational excellence, and aligning cloud strategies with business outcomes.Throughout my career, I’ve successfully led M&A technology integrations, cloud transformations (AWS, GCP, Azure), and implemented cloud cost optimization programs (FinOps) that delivered millions in savings. I thrive in complex, fast-paced environments where service reliability, scalability, and security compliance (FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, HIPPA, SOX) are business-critical.At organizations like Optum Insight, Change Healthcare, McAfee, Yahoo, Motorola (Google), and others, I’ve built and led global teams (35+ FTEs), managed $6M+ Opex budgets, and rolled out SRE, DevOps, Observability, and SecOps frameworks that enhanced platform reliability and accelerated time-to-market. My leadership approach is deeply collaborative, partnering with Product, Engineering, QA, and Security to drive end-to-end operational maturity.Key Focus Areas- SRE, DevOps & Cloud Operations Leadership- M&A Integrations. ITSM & Observability- Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps- Security & Compliance for SaaS (FedRAMP, SOC2, HITRUST, HIPPA, SOX)- Global Team Building & People Development- Strategic Vendor & Budget ManagementI’m passionate about creating scalable, reliable, and secure Cloud services that enable business growth while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement within my teams.Let’s connect if you’re building or scaling high-performance SRE, CloudOps, or DevSecOps organizations and looking for a strategic leader to help accelerate your platform’s reliability and operational maturity.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Sre and Devops

   Optum

   Apr 2023 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   Leadership and mentoring of SRE and DevOps teams responsible for the delivery and support of Healthcare Cloud platforms and solutions- Defining strategic priorities, reliability metrics and processes to accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions with scale and reliability- Improving the operational maturity and services stability through automation and consistent Engineering practices- Defining operational goals, cost optimizations and improvements for mission critical services on a globally distributed level, using AWS Cloud services- Defining and improving the release and operationalization processes for Cloud platforms to ensure zero deployment failures and meet SLAs- Defining governance standards and procedures to ensure cost and utilization optimizations for AWS resources (EMR, RDS, EC2, S3, Redshift)- Improving the service quality by consistent and effective Incident and Problem management practices

Education

• Bulgarian Air Force Academy "Georgi Benkovski"

  Bachelor of Science, Aeronautical Engineering

  1985 — 1990

• Santa Clara University

  MBA, Levy School of Business

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Hadoop
• Product Management
• Performance Tuning
• Saas
• Data Modeling
• Operations Management
• Big Data
• Databases
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Scalability
• Data Center
• Agile Methodologies
• High Availability
• Technical Leadership
• Linux
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Data Warehousing
• Analytics
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Scrum
• System Architecture