Nikolay Alipiev
Software Engineer at Bede Gaming
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNikolay Alipiev is a seasoned Software Engineer and former team lead with over 15 years working primarily in .NET and modern web stacks, now based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He specializes in building developer tools, UI frameworks, low-code platforms and CLI tooling using Angular, TypeScript and C#, and has hands-on experience maintaining high-quality UI components such as Ignite UI for Angular. At Infragistics he progressed from developer to team lead, driving architecture and delivery while coaching engineers, and recently moved to Bede Gaming to continue applying that product-focused mindset. Nikolay is actively advancing into AI integration—particularly RAG, vector databases and AI-assisted development—bringing a pragmatic blend of frontend UX sensitivity and backend engineering discipline. Notably, his open-source contributions include refactoring and test work on complex date-picker components, reflecting a focus on reliability and edge-case behavior in UI libraries.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, Software Technologies, Master's, Software Technologies at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiMG "Atanas Radev"
Github Skills (6)
typescript10
typescripts10
unit-test10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
angular10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IgniteUI/igniteui-angular
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
Ignite UI for Angular is a complete library of Angular-native, Material-based Angular UI components with the fastest grids and charts, Pivot Grid, Dock Manager, Hierarchical Grid, and more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:110 releases, 384 reviews, 1788 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily focused on fixing tests and refactoring the code related to the IgxDateRangeComponent within the Ignite UI for Angular library. They modified and updated component specifications. The user's commits involved adding or altering test code to verify that a date-picker component correctly handles various scenarios, including selection, date formatting, and interactions. The code changes were primarily within the source files, indicating hands-on work on UI components.
data-gridmaterialangular-componentsangular2material-design
Lipata/ignite-ui
Jun 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 465 pushes, 226 branches in 1 year 10 months
reactignite-uiigniteigniteuiinfragistics
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