Rumen Zhekov
Manager, Software Engineering at Progress
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolRumen Zhekov is a seasoned software engineering manager with over a decade at Progress (formerly Telerik), where he progressed from technical support to product management and now leads engineering with a focus on customer satisfaction, product stability, and open team culture. He has hands-on experience shipping UI component suites for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core, driving mobile capabilities and lightweight rendering while helping resolve 40,000+ support tickets earlier in his career. At Progress he has overseen large-scale support operations and product milestones (including handling 50,000+ tickets by 2019), blending technical depth with customer-facing empathy. Based in Sofia, he pairs a strong support-and-product background with team-building instincts and a pragmatic approach to delivering reliable developer-facing software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
English, French
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Github Skills (15)
html10
ajax10
javascript10
jquery10
kendo-ui10
widgets10
telerik10
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
webforms6
dotnet4
sass3
docker2
monorepo1
documentation1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/ajax-docs
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
Public Documentation for Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX
Contributions:1 release, 37 reviews, 668 commits in 7 years 4 months
ajaxtelerik
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Aug 2016 - Aug 2022
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 6 years 1 month
jquerywidgetskendo-uitelerikjavascript
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