# Bogomil Shopov
> Bogomil Shopov is a product and program manager who helps product and engineering teams solve difficult problems, work better together, and build technology people can trust. His approach combines product thinking, delivery experience, technical understanding, security and privacy awareness, empathy, curiosity, mentoring, and public speaking.

## Identity
Bogomil Shopov works across product management, program management, Agile delivery, security, privacy, user experience, mentoring and technical communication. He is based in Prague / works remotely.

## Services
- Product management: priorities, trade-offs, problem definition, product and engineering alignment, decision facilitation.
- Delivery and program management: delivery flow, cross-team dependencies, Lean-Agile ways of working, program coordination.
- Security and trust: threat-modeling workshops, privacy-aware product discussions, ethical design reviews, security risk prioritisation.
- Teaching and communication: mentoring, practical workshops, internal talks and conference talks.

## How he works
Bogomil uses empathy as a practical product skill. He listens before solving, makes assumptions and risks visible, connects technical and non-technical perspectives, and treats learning as more useful than blame. Curiosity often becomes a question, a small experiment, or a better product decision.

## Selected evidence
- 20+ years across web development, architecture, analysis, management, product and program management.
- Experience supporting 16 Agile teams and 130 global contributors.
- Work on a $14M data-ingestion platform.
- A risk-mitigation solution that safeguarded more than $3M in revenue.
- Training experience with 200+ people in threat modeling.
- Teaching experience with 100+ beginners learning OpenStreetMap.
- 30+ technology and community events managed.

## Selected experience
Selected organisations and projects presented on the website include Gen, Portworx by Pure Storage, Citrix, Vistaprint, Accolade and Infor. These are presented as context and experience, not as a claim that they are freelance clients.

## Talks and public work
Talk topics include team culture and fun in software, product adoption, Thunderbird localisation, OpenStreetMap onboarding, UX and heavy metal, threat modeling, community perspectives, privacy-respecting professional branding, and email.

## Writing
Bogomil writes about product and program management, delivery, privacy, technology, experiments, and curiosity. His public writing includes HackerNoon articles and the newsletter "TPM and Heavy Metal Fusion."

## Other work
- A short practical threat-modeling book.
- Startup mentoring and interviews.
- SystemErr 2052, an experimental participatory theatre project.
- Public talks and workshops.

## Primary links
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogomil)
- [HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/u/bogomil)
- [Speaker profile](https://sessionize.com/bogo/)
- [TPM and Heavy Metal Fusion](https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/tpm-and-heavy-metal-fusion-7117783391395024896/)
- [SystemErr 2052](https://systemerr.maiznai.eu/systemerr-2052)
- [Contact](mailto:bogomil@talkweb.eu)

## Source notes
The website is the primary human-readable source for this profile. External links are included where they provide original or third-party evidence for talks, writing, interviews, publications, and projects.