Stanimira Vlaeva is a Staff Developer Advocate at MongoDB with 11 years of experience building developer tools, mobile and front-end frameworks, and developer experiences. She moved up through developer advocacy roles at MongoDB after hands-on engineering positions at Progress and VMware, bringing a blend of product-focused advocacy and deep implementation knowledge. Her open-source contributions to NativeScript and Clarity show a strong emphasis on UI/UX, accessibility, build tooling, and improving live-reload/build workflows for mobile developers. As a Google Developer Expert for Angular and Google Cloud, she frequently bridges advanced web frameworks and cloud platforms for developer audiences. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic fixes that improve developer productivity—everything from router and animation bug fixes to webpack and livesync refactors. Based in Sofia, she pairs practical, code-first problem solving with public speaking and community leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Informatics, High School Informatics at PMG 'Akademik Nikola Obreshkov' - Burgas
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 29 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stanimira primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the application. They refactored the front-end styling and formatting of the React application. Further, the user made several modifications, including setting up the Cypress testing framework and formatting code across the server-side and client-side components, and removing unused files, demonstrating their involvement in both client-side and server-side maintenance and improvement.
Contributions:1 release, 201 commits, 162 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Stanimira primarily focused on the implementation and maintenance of user interface components using Angular and NativeScript. They contributed by fixing and enhancing the page router outlet functionality to enable lazy loading. They also made changes to the action bar and various value accessors to enable touch-based interactions and added support for Angular 4.2 and 5, including features like animations and the AnimationBuilder.
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