Summary
Yavor Belakov is a San Francisco–based AI entrepreneur and software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience, currently co-founding and heading AI at Juma, a marketing AI workspace. He also founded AI Engineer Foundation Europe, growing one of the continent’s largest AI communities and organizing 100+ events to bolster the European ecosystem. Comfortable spanning product, full-stack engineering, and AI strategy, he has moved from developer roles to building teams and platforms that turn ML research into usable tools. Having left university early yet continuing studies at Sofia University, he blends unconventional career choices with formal CS training and a practical, community-driven approach to talent development. Colleagues describe him simply as “just a dude” on GitHub, underscoring a low-ego, maker mentality behind his startup and community leadership.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School of Mathematics "Akad. Kiril Popov"
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski