Now · System Administrator at Excelsior Works

I turn tech chaos intothings that just work.

From answering my first support chat in 2013 to running IT for around 150 people today — this is how a curious gamer became a system administrator who automates the boring parts.

> I'm the person who keeps 150 computers happy

// The story

How a support chat became a server room

Every job below taught me something the next one needed. Here is the path, chapter by chapter.

  1. Prelude

    2009

    2009 – 2012

    Before servers, I served tables

    Cook, Bartender & Waiter · High School

    My first profession had nothing to do with computers: I trained as a cook, bartender and waiter. It taught me to stay calm when the room is full, listen to what people actually need, and deliver fast. Turns out that is a decent description of IT support, too.

    • Service mindset
    • Calm under pressure
    • Teamwork
  2. Chapter 1

    2013

    2013 – 2015

    The first ticket

    Player Support Specialist · TELUS · Riot Games project

    My tech career started in a chat window. I helped players with account recovery, billing, player-behavior and technical questions through Zendesk and live chat — and I was there while this support function was still in its testing phase. I learned that behind every frustrated message is someone who simply wants to get back to the game.

    • Zendesk
    • Live chat
    • Account recovery
    • Billing
  3. Chapter 2

    2015

    2015 – 2017

    Leveling up

    Advanced Tech Support · TELUS · Riot Games project

    Two years in, I moved to the cases the front line could not solve. I worked with the technical team on global issues — and discovered something unexpected: I enjoy teaching almost as much as fixing. That is when I started creating trainings for new hires and frontline agents.

    • Escalations
    • Global issues
    • Training
  4. Chapter 3

    2017

    2017 – 2023

    Six years on the front line

    Frontline Technical Support · Concentrix

    At Concentrix I supported business customers over phone and email, hit SLA targets, trained new colleagues and helped run internal technical workshops. Six years of this gave me patience, structure and an instinct for what is really broken when someone says “it just doesn’t work.”

    • Phone & email
    • SLA
    • Onboarding
    • Workshops
  5. Chapter 4

    2023

    2023 – 2024

    Inside the Surface project

    Advanced Tech Support · Concentrix · Microsoft Surface project

    Then I stepped closer to the infrastructure side. On the Microsoft Surface project I supported Premier customers and Autopilot registrations, worked with different Microsoft teams, read device and system logs, and teamed up with escalation engineers and incident managers. This is where I stopped thinking like a support agent and started thinking like an admin.

    • Autopilot
    • Premier customers
    • System logs
    • Quick Assist
  6. Chapter 5

    2024

    2024 – 2025

    From supporting IT to running it

    Junior System Administrator · Momentus Operational Services

    My first full system-administrator role. I looked after office hardware — desktops, laptops, phones, printers and some server equipment — helped maintain Azure, SharePoint, OneDrive and user accounts, managed devices through Intune and Autopilot, handled remote deployment with Endpoint Central, and took care of office access control.

    • Intune
    • Autopilot
    • Endpoint Central
    • Azure
    • SharePoint
    • Access control
  7. Chapter 6 · Now

    2025

    Oct 2025 – present

    The whole office is my system

    System Administrator · Excelsior Works

    Since October 2025 I am the System Administrator at Excelsior Works. I moved the entire office from one location to another, and I now support around 150 users and their computers across Google Workspace, Slack, OpenVPN, Notion, Microsoft 365 licenses, Google Meet hardware and, partially, GitHub and Atlassian. And because I can’t leave a repetitive task alone, I built dashboards, tools and automations with AI agents that make the workflow faster and the business cheaper to run.

    • Google Workspace
    • Slack
    • OpenVPN
    • Notion
    • Microsoft 365
    • AI agents

// Impact

What it adds up to

users and computers supported
~0
entire office relocated, end to end
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years in IT support & administration
0+
languages: Bulgarian, Polish, English
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What I build on the side of the day job

Dashboards

Clear, useful views of the data a team needs — built with the help of AI agents.

Internal tools

Small tools that remove repetitive steps from everyday IT and office workflows.

Automations

Processes that run on their own — faster for the team, cheaper for the business.

// Toolbox

What I work with

Honest levels, because “expert in everything” isn’t a thing. The dot shows how close each tool is to my daily work.

Daily driverSolid experienceLearning & building

Workplace & identity

  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365 licensing
  • Slack
  • Notion
  • Intune & Autopilot
  • Azure, SharePoint, OneDrive
  • Endpoint Central
  • Atlassian

Devices & hardware

  • Windows & Windows Server
  • Google Meet hardware
  • PC & hardware troubleshooting
  • Printers & phones
  • Office access control

Network & security

  • OpenVPN
  • Networking
  • VLANs & access-control rules
  • DNS
  • VPN

Virtualization & Linux

  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • Proxmox
  • Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Debian
  • Docker

AI & automation

  • GPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Canva
  • CapCut
  • Higgsfield
  • Dashboards & automations

Build & deploy

  • GitHub
  • Vercel
  • Netlify
  • Google Firebase

// After hours

My homelab: where I break things on purpose

At home I run my own network with multiple VLANs, access-control rules between them, DNS and VPN — built from different networking and hardware equipment, purely for learning.

If I misconfigure something at 11 pm, the only people affected are me and, occasionally, the cat.

  • Multiple VLANs
  • Access-control rules
  • DNS
  • VPN
InternetFirewall / RouterManaged switchDNSVPNTrustedmy own devicesACLLab & serverswhere experiments liveACLIoTisolated smart gadgetsACLGuestsinternet onlyACL
A simplified sketch of the idea, not my exact setup.

What I picked up this past year

Git & GitHub

Learning and testing repositories, and how real projects are organized.

AI agents

Testing and creating projects with different AI agents — from code to content.

First deployments

First steps with Vercel, Netlify and Google Firebase.

Serious networking

A personal homelab with VLANs, access-control rules, DNS and VPN.

> This website is one of those experiments: designed and built together with an AI agent.

// Beyond work

Life outside the terminal

My work is also my hobby. When I get home, I keep going — AI, deployments, dashboards, networking. For balance, I log off.

Gaming

A gamer at the weekend — and yes, my first tech job was in games support.

The cat

My daily opponent. The fight is ongoing and the score is classified.

Mountains

Climbing them is how I switch my head off and see the bigger picture.

The village house

Slowly but effectively renovating it — the one project with no rollback option.

// The formal part

Certificates, education, languages

Certifications

  • edX

    Information Systems and Computer Applications, Part 2: Hardware

  • SoftUni

    Linux System Administration

Education

  • 2009 – 2012

    High School

    Cook, Bartender & Waiter

Languages

  • BulgarianNative
  • PolishNative
  • EnglishFluent

References

Available on request. You can also read what colleagues wrote about me on LinkedIn.

Read recommendations

// Contact

Let’s talk.

Hiring a system administrator, or got a messy IT puzzle? I’d love to hear about it.

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