Vasil Kaftandzhiev

Vasil Kaftandzhiev is currently a Product Manager at Grafana Labs. Prior to this, they were a Senior Product Manager at VMware from September 2021 to August 2022, where they were responsible for Cloud automation with vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation integration with Tanzu Kubernetees Grid and Tanzu Mission Control focus. Vasil also Maximized the immediate product value by building a consumption driven road-map and Maximized the velocity of the dev. team by limiting WIP and value stream grooming. From October 2020 to September 2021, they were Manager, Business Services at VMware, where they Managed a team of IT analysts responsible for $3m of IT global business services including: Global operating model improvement (Project, Problem, Change, Availability, Configuration, Knowledge Management) and Mobility and Licensing management (RFPs, contract renewals, spent optimization, management automation). Prior to that they were Service Delivery Lead / Agile Coach at VMware from October 2017 to October 2020 and Change and Release Manager at Playtech from July 2015 to October 2017. Vasil began their career as an Account Delivery Manager at Hewlett Packard Inc. from August 2014 to July 2015.

Their manager is Torkel Ödegaard, Chief Growth Officer & Co-Founder. They work with Zsofia Komaromi - Product Manager, Dave Kranowitz - VP, Worldwide Sales, and Devin Cheevers - Product Manager.