Nikolay Yordanov
Program Manager at The World Bank
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
Summary
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Top SchoolNikolay Yordanov is a seasoned program manager and technologist with over two decades in IT and 14 years in leadership roles, currently implementing AI and ML/LLM+RAG solutions at the World Bank. He blends deep Microsoft-platform expertise—Dynamics 365, SharePoint (since 2001), Azure DevOps and .NET—with hands-on architecture and application lifecycle management across enterprise and ERP domains. A practiced team builder and delivery lead, he has steered cross-border projects for clients like Lufthansa Cargo and large public-sector programs while establishing high-performing Dynamics teams in Bulgaria. His open-source contributions include quality and compiler work for well-known PHP projects such as WP-CLI and lessphp, showing a longtime commitment to code quality and tooling beyond his enterprise focus. Nikolay also pairs formal project management (PMI PMBOK and Scrum) with practical engineering, often defining both physical and logical architectures for complex systems. Currently pursuing a PhD in Electromechanical Engineering, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and pragmatic delivery experience.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electromechanical Engineering, PhD Electromechanical Engineering at Technical University of SofiaMaster's Informatics, Master's Informatics at University of Economics - Varna
English, Bulgarian, German
Stackoverflow
1,404reputation
146kreached
31answers
13questions
wordpress
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
application-framework10
testing10
wordpress10
css10
app-framework10
coding-conventions10
php10
web-framework10
web-development10
lessc10
php-codesniffer10
cli10
rule9
unit-testing8
file-management7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wp-cli/wp-cli
Apr 2014 - Sep 2016
⚙️ WP-CLI framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily contributed to the core functionality and structure of the WP-CLI framework. Their work involved refactoring code for improved error handling and adding new functionalities related to updating the CLI tool. They also extracted the version number into a separate file, and implemented update checker options. In addition, they worked on changing and refining the update process in general.
wp-cliwordpressphpframeworkcli
leafo/lessphp
May 2012 - Nov 2013
LESS compiler written in PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nikolay primarily contributed to the `lessphp` project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the LESS compiler. They implemented support for `!important` declarations within mixins. Further modifications were made, including support for the "transparent" color keyword, a typo fix, and data-uri functionality. The user also added test cases to ensure the proper functioning of the data-uri feature.
compilerphp
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