Evgeni Kolev
Staff Software Engineer at ClickUp
Bulgaria
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Top SchoolEvgeni Kolev is a Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing and scaling high-throughput backend systems, distributed databases, and DevOps pipelines, currently driving engineering at ClickUp after senior roles at Uber. He excels at cross-team collaboration, raising coding standards, and eliminating inefficiencies to deliver reliable, highly available services handling 1000+ RPS. Deeply pragmatic, he pairs systems-level architecture skills with a passion for developer tooling and open-source contributions—having improved widely used editors and plugins like swiper and vim-airline. Always curious, Evgeni explores functional programming, Emacs/Vim customization, and is actively expanding his expertise in AI to shape the next wave of software engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Information Technology Project Management, Master, Information Technology Project Management at New Bulgarian UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems and Technologies, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Systems and Technologies at Technical University Sofia
English, German
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Github Skills (31)
ivy10
vimscript10
el10
language-server-protocol10
emacs-lisp10
searching10
vim10
language-server10
go10
customisation10
colours10
tmux10
co10
completions10
scripting9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
edkolev/tmuxline.vim
Nov 2013 - Jul 2021
Simple tmux statusline generator with support for powerline symbols and statusline / airline / lightline integration
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 97 commits, 12 PRs in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Evgeni primarily focused on enhancing the tmuxline.vim project, a statusline generator for tmux. Their contributions involved refactoring the codebase, cleaning up TODOs, and introducing new features such as the ability to set pane borders and customize tmux options. They also added several new themes and improved the error handling and command completion for the `Tmuxline` command. Furthermore, the user implemented Lightline and Airline themes.
symbolstmuxpowerlinestatuslinelightline
abo-abo/swiper
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Ivy - a generic completion frontend for Emacs, Swiper - isearch with an overview, and more. Oh, man!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 22 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Evgeni contributed to both `swiper` and `counsel` Emacs packages, focusing on enhancing user experience and functionality. They implemented new features and fixed bugs related to search behavior, directory navigation, and git integration. The contributions involved modifying Emacs Lisp code, integrating with external tools like git, and addressing UI-related issues within the Emacs environment.
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