Emil Nikov
Staff Product Engineer at Workbrew
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Nikov is a Staff Product Engineer based in Copenhagen with 11 years of experience building the bridge between design and engineering to deliver usable, production-ready systems. He has progressed from front-end and web design roles to leadership positions—Head of Technology at Iconfinder and senior design engineering roles at GitHub and Fly.io—bringing product sensibility to technical decisions. Emil blends strong visual and interaction design roots with hands-on engineering, consistently shipping polished user-facing features and scalable front-end systems. He thrives in roles that require translating design intent into robust implementations and mentoring cross-functional teams. Notably, his background in computer graphics and animation gives him an uncommon eye for micro-interactions and UI craftsmanship that improves user perception of quality. Currently at Workbrew, he focuses on product-driven engineering where design and code meet to create tangible user value.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Economics and Management, Economics and Management at School of Commerce, BurgasBachelor's degree, Computer Graphic and Animation (Computer Media Technologies), Bachelor's degree, Computer Graphic and Animation (Computer Media Technologies) at New Bulgarian University
English, Bulgarian, French, Danish
Github Skills (149)
icon-pack10
standalone-server10
image-processing10
converting10
ui-components10
bem10
logos10
webp10
svg10
branding10
libvips10
resize-images10
svg-files10
api10
sass-framework10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
enstyled/pocketsales
Feb 2015 - Nov 2021
Tiny application for tracking your sales on the Envato Marketplaces
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
envatomarketplacestinytrackingsales
iconfinder/api-demo
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
A sample application to demo the Iconfinder API
Contributions:84 commits, 6 PRs, 80 pushes in 4 years 4 months
apiiconfindersample-application
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