Ilya Surmay is a Frontend Developer with a decade of hands-on experience building responsive, production-grade web applications and SPAs using Angular, Node.js/Nest.js, TypeScript, and modern frontend toolchains. He has a strong track record contributing to notable open-source work—improving UI/UX and fixing edge-case bugs in the popular ngx-bootstrap library—while delivering features like tooltip/popover enhancements and cross-browser modal fixes. Ilya has shipped projects across startups and enterprise teams, comfortable with MySQL, Socket.IO, RxJS and team workflows (GIT, JIRA, Confluence). He pairs pixel-perfect HTML/CSS expertise and email template responsiveness with client-side engineering for complex interactions (videochat, WebRTC, custom widgets). Based in Porto, he blends pragmatic engineering with a creative streak—composing electronic music in his spare time—and is motivated to build useful, elegant products and grow through collaborative teams.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Fast and reliable Bootstrap widgets in Angular (supports Ivy engine)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:114 commits, 123 PRs, 147 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ilya's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the UI/UX of the Angular-based ngx-bootstrap library. They implemented new features like fade-out effects for tooltips, added new output for dropdown state changes, and added custom class functionality for popovers and tooltips. Furthermore, the user addressed several bug fixes and improvements, including addressing issues related to nested modals, tab removal in IE, and the dropup style and positioning.
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