Hristo Hristov
Director Of Engineering at Payhawk
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolHristo Hristov is a Director of Engineering based in Sofia with 11 years of professional experience building and optimizing cross-platform UI frameworks and native mobile components. He began as a XAML specialist and evolved into a software architect and engineering leader, driving reusable UI controls across WPF, UWP, Xamarin/WinUI and researching Flutter and WinUI innovations. Hands-on work on high-profile open-source projects like NativeScript and Telerik’s UI for UWP demonstrates deep expertise in platform-specific performance tuning, list and tab view rendering, and bridging Java/Objective-C with TypeScript abstractions. Known as an “essentialist,” he focuses on quality, performance and usability while enabling teams to maximize code reuse and streamline hot-path execution. An uncommon strength is his history of building parallel data engines and cross-platform binding systems, reflecting both low-level optimization skill and product-minded architecture.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technical University of SofiaMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English
Github Skills (13)
uwp10
typescript10
ios10
typescripts10
csharp10
nativescript10
xaml10
android10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
visual-studio9
ui-design9
windows9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/UI-For-UWP
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
This repo contains the source code for Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which includes 20+ UI controls for developers building UWP applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Hristo made several contributions to the Telerik UI for UWP repository. They fixed a bug in the RadListView control by adding a check to the RebuildUI method. The user also updated the RadDataForm by initializing the EntityProvider immediately and building editors when the template is applied. Additionally, the user addressed style cop errors and made minor adjustments to the ToggleSwitchCustomEditor and EnumEditor components.
xamluwpdotnetuwp-applicationswindows
NativeScript/NativeScript
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
⚡ Empowering JavaScript with native platform APIs. ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java, Dart). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Dart (Flutter) and you name it compatible.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 356 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Hristo primarily focused on enhancing the NativeScript project, specifically targeting the Android and iOS platforms. The commits demonstrate involvement in list-picker component updates, improving its rendering and functionality across both operating systems. Furthermore, the user addressed tab-view and list-view implementations, indicating a focus on UI component improvements and platform-specific optimizations.
ionic-reactsolidjsbest-ofvueios
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