Bozhidar Ivanchev
Distinguished Engineer at Progress
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolBozhidar Ivanchev is a Distinguished Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping web UI components and infrastructure at Progress/Telerik, where he has progressed from software engineer to senior technical leadership roles. He specializes in front-end and full-stack work for rich component libraries like Kendo UI and Telerik UI for Blazor, contributing bug fixes, localization, demos and tooling improvements to widely used open-source and example repos. Known for blending hands-on coding with team management, he has driven UX fixes, refactors, and dependency/upgrades while leading a Kendo UI team. Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, he pairs a strong academic foundation from Technical University of Sofia and Telerik Academy with a practical focus on reliable, user-facing web experiences.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science and Technologies, Bachelors, Computer Science and Technologies at Technical University of SofiaSoftware development track, Software development track at Telerik Academy
Bulgarian, English
Github Skills (16)
blazor10
uid10
localization10
javascript10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
kendo-ui10
widgets10
jquery10
blazor-component10
dotnet-core10
blazor-server10
github-ci3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/blazor-ui
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
A collection of examples related to Telerik UI for Blazor Components: https://www.telerik.com/blazor-ui
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 32 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bozhidar primarily contributed to the Telerik Blazor UI examples, implementing new features and fixing bugs within the Blazor framework. Their work included adding new TabStrip demos, refactoring Grid columns, and updating component references. They also made improvements to the application setup, including adding support for secrets and upgrading project dependencies to newer versions, showcasing familiarity with the underlying project structure and tooling.
blazorblazor-componentteleriksample-appsblazor-ui
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Mar 2014 - Jan 2019
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:284 commits, 71 PRs, 98 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bozhidar primarily focused on updating and improving the user interface and localization of the Kendo UI core library. Their contributions included translating Gantt widget messages into Bulgarian, modifying code for the clear button and filtering behavior of MultiSelect, and addressing a JavaScript error in the scrollLeft method. The user also fixed various UI bugs and performed code cleanup related to the drop-down list component to enhance the user experience.
jquerywidgetskendo-uitelerikjavascript
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