Joana Ivanova
Senior Engineering Manager at Progress
Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolJoana Ivanova is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Bulgaria with 11 years of experience leading product-focused engineering teams at Progress, rising from Software Engineer to her current leadership role. She blends hands-on front-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to well-known Telerik/Kendo UI projects improving Blazor components, accessibility, and widget behavior—with people management and delivery ownership. Joana is comfortable moving between code and strategy, having fixed critical UI bugs and added component demos while coaching teams through growth stages. Her background in economics gives her a pragmatic, metrics-minded approach to prioritization and stakeholder communication. Notably, she has sustained long-term impact by evolving within the same organization, showing both technical depth and institutional leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Economics at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiHigh School, High School at First English Language High School
Github Skills (22)
razor10
javascript10
jquery10
asp-net-core10
ui-design10
grids10
blazor10
uid10
front-end-development10
kendo-ui10
grid10
html10
blazor-component10
blazor-server10
widgets9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/blazor-ui
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
A collection of examples related to Telerik UI for Blazor Components: https://www.telerik.com/blazor-ui
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 40 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Joana's contributions primarily involved the development and modification of Blazor UI components and demos within the Telerik Blazor UI repository. They added new examples and features for the Grid component, including columns, sorting, and template demos. The user also enhanced existing demos by adding additional features for various components, such as Textbox, DateInput, and DropDownList. Further commits show the styling adjustments and path fixes, indicating work across various UI elements and demo pages.
razorblazor-serverdatagridblazor-uiblazor-components
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 14 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joana primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements related to the Kendo UI Core library. Their work focused on addressing usability issues within the window, dropdownlist, and combobox widgets, specifically regarding keyboard navigation, focus management, and accessibility. They also addressed a critical issue in the panelbar's animation logic and fixed a clear-value button display issue.
widgetjquerytelerikjavascriptweb-apps
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