Ivaylo Pavlov
Software Engineer at Bloomberg
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarIvaylo Pavlov is a London-based Software Engineer with a decade of experience building front-end features and improving editor UX in high-profile open-source projects. He has made notable contributions to Facebook's Lexical editor, implementing collapsible sections, DOM import/export, table fixes and other reliability enhancements that improve real-world editing workflows. Equally comfortable leading teams and teaching others, he blends hands-on development with content creation and finance knowledge to communicate technical ideas clearly. Outside work he’s a dedicated coffee enthusiast and golfer, a detail that often informs his focused, iterative approach to product polish.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
user-interface10
text-editor10
editor10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/lexical
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 447 reviews, 292 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ivaylo contributed significantly to the `facebook/lexical` repository, primarily focusing on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the text editor. They implemented features related to collapsible sections, including adding DOM export and import functionalities and listening to toggle events. The user also fixed bugs related to the clear formatting feature, Excalidraw modal component, and list selection within the editor. They also worked on improving table functionality, like the freezing of the first column.
contenteditableexcellentwysiwygrich-text-editorperformance
ivailop7/IvoSudoku
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
A simple Sudoku game built using React & TypeScript
Contributions:1 PR, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
reacttypescriptreact-typescriptsudoku
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