Svetlozar Kondakov
Principal architect
Scopes, leads, and signs every engagement.
About
A senior boutique, by design.
Northkeep is a principal-led AWS practice: one accountable principal
architect, work delivered and reviewed by senior, experienced people, and
nothing shipped without principal sign-off.
The principal
Svetlozar Kondakov
Principal cloud architect. Roughly twenty years of building and running systems, three CTO roles taken to exit, and every active AWS certification with zero failed exams - the Golden Jacket, achieved and AWS-confirmed. Based in the EU (Bulgaria), serving clients across the EU, US, and Gulf.
The same hands have taken generative AI to production on Amazon Bedrock inside live products, run enterprise-scale data and ML platforms, and built FCA-regulated lending systems on AWS. At Northkeep those hands scope, lead, and sign every engagement.
- Roughly twenty years
- Architecting cloud and software systems, from regulated fintech to enterprise-scale data and ML platforms.
- Three CTO roles taken to exit
- Including a profitable trade sale. Architecture judged by business outcomes, not slide decks.
- Every active AWS certification, zero failed exams
- Golden Jacket achieved, AWS-confirmed. Verifiable on Credly.
- Production AI at enterprise scale
- Production generative AI on Amazon Bedrock inside live products, and data/ML platforms serving customer-facing features at multi-billion-dollar enterprise scale.
- Regulated fintech delivery
- FCA-regulated lending systems built and operated on AWS, with the regulated-data security model to match.
- University of Sheffield
- MBA and BSc Computer Science.
The practice
Small on purpose, senior throughout.
Northkeep is operated on top of AdvancIT OOD and is independent - not part of any consultancy group. It is built to stay a senior boutique: no headcount targets, no bench, no junior work billed at senior rates. Methods and frameworks carry the Northkeep name and are refined engagement over engagement.
All work is delivered from inside the EU, by EU residents, under EU jurisdiction. AWS Partner Network member.
The roster
Who does the work.
How this roster grows
Northkeep adds a small handful of hand-picked, senior associates - never a bench. Every associate works under direct principal supervision and is EU-resident, so the EU-resident delivery commitment holds as the roster grows. No one appears here before they are real.
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Talk to the principal.
Tell us the problem and who you are. You will speak to the principal, not a sales layer.