Nikolay Dobrev is a Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft with 11 years of engineering experience, currently shaping the AL language and developer tooling for Dynamics 365 Business Central. He blends systems and language work—maintaining the AL VSCode extension (200k+ downloads), automating secure release pipelines, and keeping SaaS infrastructure healthy—while directly engaging the community on GitHub. His background spans embedded and desktop C/C++ work in automotive and productivity software, full-stack Node.js/Cordova development for startups, and a master's focus on algorithms and AI. Comfortable moving between low-level performance concerns and developer-experience features, he brings an unusual combination of production-grade tooling expertise and hands-on customer-facing product iteration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Technical University of Sofia
Technical University of Denmark
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Maths High School of Stara Zagora
Contributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
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