Exit Node

Chavdar Yotov

Principal Software Engineer | AI Engineering & Developer Education

I'm a principal engineer and former Director of AI Innovation with over 12 years in software. I build production LLM agents with observability. I created Exit Node and teach engineering and non-engineering teams.

6 h → <1 htraining and inference runs after moving from HPC to AWS
99%uptime on those pipelines
10engineers led across England and Israel
400+stakeholders on business-critical GPU test systems

Roles

  1. Principal Software Engineer

    Exnaton

    Mar 2026 - present

    • Introduced a tool-driven AI assistant for operational data and documentation.
    • Added LLM tracing and observability in production.
    • Sped up data processing through a database migration and algorithm work.
    • Teach AI workflows to the team.

  2. Director of AI Innovation

    Skyward IT Solutions

    Oct 2024 - Dec 2025

    • Led company-wide AI adoption from prototypes to selective production, including regulated government use cases.
    • Gave regular conference talks and ran an internal education series. Created podcasts, blogs and videos.
    • Built partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic and adopted MCP early.
    • Led a senior team and an early-career incubator.

  3. Staff MLOps Engineer

    Arm

    Mar 2024 - Oct 2024

    • Moved training and inference pipelines from HPC to the cloud.
    • Cut six-hour runs to under one hour, with 99 percent uptime.

  4. Software Engineering Team Lead

    Arm

    Apr 2022 - Mar 2024

    • Led 10 engineers across England and Israel, with four direct reports.
    • Led work on business-critical GPU test systems for more than 400 stakeholders.

  5. Software Engineering Technical Lead

    Arm

    Apr 2020 - Apr 2022

    • Built a model of GPU test infrastructure at parity with production.
    • Hired engineers and grew the team.

  6. Software Engineer

    Arm

    Jun 2014 - Apr 2020

    • Built image-quality and test tooling.
    • Translated models for GPU drivers.
    • Introduced CI/CD.

Skills

AI engineering

  • LLM observability and tracing
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Tool-driven agents
  • RAG
  • MCP

Software and data

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • C/C++
  • Django
  • NestJS
  • React
  • ClickHouse
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • CI/CD
  • RabbitMQ
  • Celery
  • Sentry

Developer education

  • Videos
  • Talks
  • Mentorship

Education

BSc Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK, 2014. Taught Android and Java classes to PhD students.