We build
engineering
that lasts.
VOTUM is a software engineering company based in Sofia, Bulgaria. We embed with your team, take ownership of outcomes, and build the technical foundations that let your product scale — from architecture and development to delivery, testing and operations.
People who've done this before.
VOTUM is a software engineering company built around experienced engineers covering complementary disciplines — architecture, development, DevOps, quality and operations. We hire specialists with production engineering backgrounds and give them the ownership and environment to keep growing.
Leads VOTUM's technical direction and delivery, combining software architecture, enterprise platform experience and engineering management. His background includes complex application-delivery environments and modernization programs.
Software and systems architect with a strong development background. Designs application and integration architectures with a focus on maintainability, clear technical boundaries, scalability and reliable system integration.
DevOps engineer with strong coding and automation experience. Builds delivery platforms, CI/CD pipelines and the infrastructure around enterprise software systems.
Full-stack engineer working across backend and frontend application development, with previous hands-on experience in enterprise application platforms.
Test automation specialist with strong coding knowledge and broader performance-testing experience. Focuses on automation architecture, maintainable test frameworks and quality engineering.
A network of experienced engineers available for specific engagements — each one vetted personally before they work on a client project.
Expertise across the team
Our team combines architecture, software engineering, platform operations and quality engineering. That breadth lets us work across the full lifecycle of business-critical software — from technical direction and implementation to delivery, testing and long-term operations.
Technology strategy & architecture
Enterprise architecture, modernization, system design and technical direction.
Technology consulting →Software engineering
Backend, frontend and full-stack development for business-critical applications.
Custom software development →DevOps & platform engineering
CI/CD, cloud and on-premise platforms, automation and production delivery.
DevOps & cloud engineering →Quality engineering
Test strategy, test automation, automation architecture and performance testing.
Test automation & quality engineering →Managed operations
Application and platform support, root-cause analysis and L1–L3 engineering support.
Managed services & application support →Enterprise delivery platforms
Hands-on project experience across OpenText ALM, ALM Octane, UFT, PPM and LoadRunner.
OpenText ADM engineering experience →We optimize for long-term ownership and maintainability, not just feature delivery — and for the moment you no longer need us: when your team is confident, your systems are stable, and the architecture we built together is something you can grow on for years.
That means we embed deeply. We sit in your standups, write your documentation, and have the conversations that don't fit in a Jira ticket. It's slower in the short term and more valuable in the long term.
VOTUM was built by engineers who had spent years watching the same patterns fail — disconnected strategy, short-term execution, and handoffs that left teams worse off than when the engagement started. We set out to build the alternative.
Six things we won't compromise on.
Client work is led by experienced engineers, and expertise stays close to delivery — the people making the technical decisions work directly on your product. You pay for expertise, you get expertise.
We measure success by outcomes, not tickets closed. If a feature shipped but the system is harder to maintain, we didn't succeed. We own the full lifecycle of what we build.
We recommend the simplest solution that solves the real problem. We won't introduce complexity to look sophisticated or to extend the engagement. If a boring solution is the right one, we'll say so.
We won't start building until we understand the problem. Every engagement starts with a discovery phase — even a short one. Scope agreed on paper beats scope discovered in code.
You see what we're doing every week. No black-box development cycles. Regular progress reviews and demos throughout delivery, open backlogs, and honest status updates — including the hard ones.
The goal of every engagement is to make ourselves unnecessary. We write the documentation, run the knowledge transfers, and design systems your team can operate confidently without us.
What working with VOTUM looks like
How we engage, make technical decisions and hand work over.
- Senior-led delivery
- Experienced engineers stay involved in technical decisions and delivery — the people who shape the approach also carry it through.
- Success criteria agreed up front
- Scope, priorities and success criteria are agreed before delivery starts, and progress is reviewed against them.
- Architecture stays connected to implementation
- The engineers shaping the technical direction remain close to implementation, testing and delivery.
- Knowledge stays with the client
- Documentation, knowledge transfer and maintainability are treated as part of delivery rather than an afterthought.
We're growing carefully. If you're a senior engineer who wants to do high-quality work with clients who care about it, we'd like to hear from you.
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