Desislava Mihaylova
Technical Writers Team Lead at Payhawk
Bulgaria
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDesislava Mihaylova is a Technical Writers Team Lead with 10 years of experience crafting clear, developer-focused documentation and leading content teams in fintech and developer-tool environments. Having progressed through senior and principal technical writing roles at Progress and Payhawk, she combines deep product documentation expertise with hands-on front-end contributions to notable open-source projects like Kendo UI, where she improved UI internationalization and localization. Based in Bulgaria and trained in English Philology, she brings a rare blend of linguistic precision and technical fluency that helps bridge engineering, product, and global user needs. Known for shipping localized documentation and UI tweaks, she excels at making complex features approachable for diverse audiences while scaling documentation processes across growing teams.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MA in English Philology Fields of study: English Language Culture and Literature, MA in English Philology Fields of study: English Language Culture and Literature at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko TarnovoGeo Milev ELS, Rousse
Github Skills (8)
internationalization10
localization10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
kendo-ui10
widgets10
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Aug 2015 - Apr 2019
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2231 commits, 110 PRs, 1942 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Desislava primarily focused on improving the user interface and internationalization aspects of the Kendo UI library. Their work included updating line heights for font icons, adding translations for the Spreadsheet component in Bulgarian, and Italian, and updating Swedish translations. The user also addressed minor code corrections and generated dependencies within the codebase.
widgetjquerytelerikjavascriptweb-apps
telerik/kendo-react-dropdowns
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:63 commits, 21 pushes in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.