Nikolay Iliev
Principal Technical Support Engineer at Progress
Sofia, Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolNikolay Iliev is a Principal Technical Support Engineer with a decade of experience bridging developer-facing product engineering and customer-facing support, currently at Progress working on the Fiddler family of network tools. He brings deep hands-on mobile expertise from earlier work on NativeScript, contributing UI component enhancements, cross-platform tests and documentation that improved real-world developer workflows. Comfortable in TypeScript, Angular, Java and Objective-C, he pairs debugging and troubleshooting skills with full-stack contributions that make SDKs easier to adopt. Nikolay’s background includes running a successful web auction business, giving him practical product-operations perspective and a knack for resolving high-volume support cases. Based in Sofia, he combines enterprise support discipline with active open-source involvement in a well-known project (NativeScript), often translating complex internals into clear how-to guides. Colleagues rely on him for quickly triaging edge-case network issues and turning them into repeatable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MTMU Marketing and Managment Sofia, Telerik Software Academy, MTMU Marketing and Managment Sofia, Telerik Software Academy at Technical University of SofiaComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Telerik Academy, Sofia
English, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
ui-design10
nativescript10
listview10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
android-listview10
typescripts10
documentation10
angular10
testing9
mobile-development9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
NativeScript/nativescript-sdk-examples-ng
Jul 2016 - Mar 2020
NativeScript and Angular code samples.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:361 commits, 202 PRs, 251 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay's contributions primarily involved implementing new UI elements and examples for the NativeScript Angular SDK. They added examples for *ngFor, and *ngSwitch directives, as well as examples demonstrating how to use various UI widgets such as ListView, and ListPicker. The user demonstrated experience with NativeScript, Angular, and component-based UI development. These changes added to the functionality and the breadth of examples available.
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NativeScript/NativeScript
Apr 2016 - Apr 2020
⚡ Write Native with TypeScript ✨ Best of all worlds (TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java, Dart). Use what you love ❤️ Angular, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue with: iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI), Android (View, Jetpack Compose), Flutter and you name it compatible.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 53 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily focused on enhancing the NativeScript framework by incorporating code snippets and how-to guides. They made changes across multiple files related to UI elements, like label, button, and dialogs, indicating a focus on the framework's component library. Moreover, the user contributed to file system tests and gestures integration, ensuring proper functionality across multiple platforms, most likely iOS and Android, given the framework's description. These contributions are vital to the framework's usability and documentation.
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