Alexander Vakrilov
Senior Software Engineer at SiteGround
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolAlexander Vakrilov is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building performant mobile and front-end systems, currently based in Sofia and working at SiteGround. He has deep hands-on expertise in NativeScript and Angular, contributing core iOS gesture handling and ListView directives to widely used open-source projects. His background spans technical lead and staff engineer roles at Progress, Coursera, and Trading 212, where he combined platform-level work with team leadership and performance optimizations. Comfortable across TypeScript, native mobile APIs and UI engineering, he excels at turning complex interaction requirements into polished, efficient implementations. Colleagues know him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends long-term architectural thinking with consistent open-source contributions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor Informatics, bachelor Informatics at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English
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Github Skills (27)
ios10
typescript10
ui-design10
nativescript10
listview10
uid10
directives10
gesture-recognition10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
android-listview10
typescripts10
angular10
directive10
objective-c9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NativeScript/nativescript-angular
Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
Integrating NativeScript with Angular
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 59 commits, 251 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on integrating NativeScript with Angular, as indicated by the repository description. Their work involved creating and modifying directives related to `ListView`, including directives for item templates and handling item loading events. They also implemented and updated components, CSS, and other code to support the display of list data and the use of navigation buttons. This user appears to be focused on building the UI of NativeScript applications with Angular.
integratingtypescriptnativescriptangular
NativeScript/NativeScript
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java, Dart). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:47 commits, 634 PRs, 819 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the iOS side of the NativeScript project, focusing on implementing and optimizing touch gestures. They added support for touch gestures, including down, move, up, and cancel events, improving user interaction. The commits involved modifications to the `ui/gestures/gestures.ios.ts` and `ui/gestures/gestures.android.ts` files, demonstrating their involvement in cross-platform gesture handling and overall framework improvements. Additionally, there were optimizations and refactoring done to improve performance.
ionic-reactsolidjsbest-ofvueios
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