Emanuil Rusev
Co-Founder at Nota.md
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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RockstarEmanuil Rusev is a seasoned software engineer and repeat founder with 13 years of experience building developer-focused web tools and startups from Sofia, Bulgaria. As co-founder of Nota.md and previously Caret.io, he combines product leadership with hands-on engineering across full-stack and backend domains. A long-time open-source maintainer, he is the primary author of Parsedown and Parsedown Extra, widely used PHP Markdown parsers where he improved parsing edge cases and introduced robust PHPUnit test coverage. Emanuil’s work shows a practical focus on reliability and developer experience—refactoring tests, hardening link/image parsing, and extending HTML/footnote support—skills that translate into well-tested, user-friendly products. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with a detail-oriented engineering mindset that surfaces non-obvious parsing and compatibility fixes that benefit large user bases.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (21)
markdown10
parserator10
parser10
testing10
htaccess10
phpunit10
dom-manipulation10
php10
markdown-it10
parse10
html10
http9
rest9
parsing9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
erusev/parsedown-extra
May 2014 - Oct 2021
Markdown Extra Extension for Parsedown
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 67 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Emanuil primarily contributed to the ParsedownExtra project by implementing new features and addressing identified issues. Their work involved extending the Markdown Extra functionality by adding support for HTML tags, footnotes, special attributes, and resolving bugs. Additionally, the user added testing infrastructure and improved the overall parsing of HTML elements within Markdown, demonstrating a focus on both front-end and back-end aspects of the Markdown processing logic.
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erusev/parsedown
Jul 2013 - Aug 2020
Better Markdown Parser in PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 releases, 489 commits, 46 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Emanuil primarily worked on improving the quality and functionality of the Markdown parser in PHP. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to link definitions and list blocks. The user also refactored and migrated tests to PHPUnit, demonstrating a focus on test-driven development and ensuring code reliability. Furthermore, they enhanced the parser's capabilities to support inline elements in setext headings and to correctly handle inline links with images.
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