Kiril Nikolov
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolKiril Nikolov is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sofia with 13 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and full‑stack applications used by hundreds of millions. He has led and shipped high‑traffic services at Microsoft, Uber and Docker, pairing backend expertise in Go, Python, Cassandra/MySQL and Kafka with front‑end craftsmanship from his long history contributing to Kendo UI and other popular UI projects. A hands‑on technical leader and mentor, he drives consistency in user experience (e.g., Docker Design System) while helping junior engineers grow and adopt robust engineering practices. His open‑source contributions show deep UI integration skills—improving Angular directives, accessibility and data binding in widely used libraries—which complements his cloud and platform work. Colleagues rely on him to bridge product, design and infrastructure concerns to deliver reliable, customer‑focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Informatics, High School Informatics at Technology School Electronic SystemsBachelor Information Technology, Bachelor Information Technology at New Bulgarian University
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (9)
html10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
kendo-ui10
angularjs10
multiselect10
json9
css8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/kendoui-northwind-dashboard
Jul 2014 - Oct 2014
A dashboard for Northwind built with Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kiril primarily contributed to the front-end development of a dashboard application. Their work involved implementing and integrating interactive charts and sparklines using the Kendo UI library. The user also addressed pathing issues, improved the user interface, and structured the application layout by adding and organizing HTML elements. Furthermore, the user demonstrated their skill in data binding and integration.
asp-net-mvctelerikaspnorthwindtelerik-ui
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Jun 2013 - Oct 2016
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:447 commits, 59 PRs, 356 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kiril primarily contributed to the user interface components of the Kendo UI core library, specifically focusing on the Angular integration. Their work included implementing new features, such as MultiSelect array value support, and fixing existing issues related to Angular directive integration. The user also addressed accessibility issues with k-ng-disabled and k-ng-readonly attributes. Several commits were dedicated to fixing typos and debugging the AngularJS integration of various widgets.
widgetjquerytelerikjavascriptweb-apps
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