Harry Dobrev
Software at PRMetrics
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolHarry Dobrev is a software engineer and startup-minded leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling products across startups and large platforms. He blends hands-on backend and frontend work with engineering management experience—from growing an engineering team to ~30 as CTO to managing fintech tax invoicing at Uber. A committed open-source contributor, he has improved well-known PHP projects like Parsedown, Monolog and the Refined GitHub extension, focusing on quality, performance and UX. He cares deeply about user experience and leverages community-driven development to solve non-technical problems with tech. Currently launching a verification-focused startup (PRMetrics) while contributing at Tuk-Tam, he pairs product empathy with a habit of continuous learning and mentoring. Based in Sofia, Harry brings pragmatic architecture, strong automation/QA instincts, and a track record of shipping useful features that improve developer and end-user workflows.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Software University "Svetlin Nakov"Bachelor Software Engineering, Bachelor Software Engineering at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiMathematical Highschool "K. Velichkov"
English, Bulgarian, French
Stackoverflow
7,656reputation
758kreached
83answers
10questions
angularjs
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google-drive-api
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git
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model-view-controller
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google-analytics
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Github Skills (41)
markdown10
parserator10
monolog10
javascript10
parser10
slack-api10
github10
browser-extension10
testing10
css10
user-interface10
regex10
chrome-extension10
phpunit10
security10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
silexphp/Silex
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018
[DEPRECATED -- Use Symfony instead] The PHP micro-framework based on the Symfony Components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 19 PRs, 83 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily focused on improving the Silex micro-framework, specifically addressing security and documentation aspects. They modified the SecurityServiceProvider to improve context usage, and added and updated links to relevant Symfony component documentation. Additionally, the user updated the code style by using short array syntax, updated test passwords and addressed inconsistencies in the Twig and Monolog ServiceProviders. They also updated the documentation to reflect parameter options.
micro-frameworkphp-micro-frameworkphpsymfony-bundlesymfony
refined-github/refined-github
Feb 2016 - May 2018
:octocat: Browser extension that simplifies the GitHub interface and adds useful features
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 46 commits, 67 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to enhancing the user interface and functionality of the GitHub browser extension. They focused on implementing new features like the "Releases" tab and collapsible file diffs, as well as refactoring existing components. The user also addressed usability issues by modifying CSS and JavaScript to hide unnecessary elements and improve the overall user experience. Furthermore, they worked on improving existing functionality related to branch linking.
browserchromefirefox-addonbrowser-extensionsafari-extension
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