Tsvetomir Bonev
Founding Engineer at Synaptic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTsvetomir Bonev is a founding engineer and two-time national IT Olympiad laureate with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack products and developer tooling from San Francisco. He has co-founded and technically led startups (Synaptic, Mandel AI) while contributing significant backend and frontend work across companies and open-source—fixing Monaco editor bugs, enhancing TypeScript frontends, and improving changelog automation in a popular GitHub action. Comfortable shipping across the stack, he blends practical product instincts with deep TypeScript/React and backend automation expertise. His background includes long-term core development roles and freelance work, showing a pattern of sustained ownership and iterative product delivery. Notably, he pairs competitive programming roots with pragmatic engineering, often tackling infrastructure and UX edge cases that improve developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Software and hardware sciences, High School Diploma, Software and hardware sciences at Gabrovo High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
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Github Skills (23)
github-ci10
typescript10
nextjs10
changelog10
automation10
typescript-types10
automations10
typescripts10
release-automation10
githubaction-workflow10
react10
monaco-editor9
git-pull9
pullrequest9
cil8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
typehero/typehero
Dec 2023 - Sep 2024
Connect, collaborate, and grow with a community of TypeScript developers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Tsvetomir primarily contributed to the frontend and codebase of the project. Their work included fixing bugs related to the Monaco editor and search functionality. They also implemented features such as per-challenge tsconfig support and removing header z-index issues. Furthermore, they have made code changes across multiple files and components using TypeScript and React.
nextjsprismareacttypescript
mikepenz/release-changelog-builder-action
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
A GitHub action that builds your release notes / changelog fast, easy and exactly the way you want.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tsvetomir primarily contributed to the project by implementing features and refactoring code related to the release changelog generation. They focused on improving the flexibility of the changelog builder by allowing flags per transformer and keeping labels in a set, along with fixing a typo. Additionally, they refactored the code to use `mapPullRequest` and packaged changes. This indicates involvement in both backend logic and potentially in the automation workflows.
changelognotesbuildsrelease-notesrelease-automation
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