Yuri Dogandjiev
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYuri Dogandjiev is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of experience building user-facing platforms and developer tooling, currently leading work on the Teams Platform from Seattle. He blends product-focused engineering with people leadership, shipping features that improve app authentication, context handling, and UX for Teams tabs and personal apps. His hands-on background spans Windows UI across multiple releases and Cortana, giving him deep experience in cross-platform client frameworks and interoperability. An active open-source contributor, he has meaningfully improved the popular microsoft-teams-library-js by adding authentication APIs, file preview support, and better back-button and context handling. Yuri’s dual degrees in Computer Science and Finance inform a pragmatic approach to technical decisions and product trade-offs. Colleagues know him as a go-to resource for building robust Teams integrations and practical libraries that simplify complex platform behaviors.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of RichmondBSBA Finance, BSBA Finance at University of Richmond - Robins School of Business
English, Bulgarian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
web-development10
apidoc9
api9
user-interface8
typescript7
typescript-types7
typescripts7
azure6
fluentui6
microsoft-teams6
microsoft-graph-api6
azure-ad-graph-api6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-library-js
Oct 2016 - Oct 2022
JavaScript library for use by Microsoft Teams apps
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 279 reviews, 105 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Yuri primarily focused on enhancing the Microsoft Teams JavaScript library, addressing issues related to authentication and message handling within the Teams environment. Their contributions included fixing authentication problems, improving window sizing, and adding new authentication APIs. Additionally, the user improved the library by whitelisting domains, adding a new API to open file previews, and adding support for the user's team role. Their work also included improvements to back-button handling and context updates.
microsoft-teamsjavascript-libraryjavascriptnodejsmicrosoft
ydogandjiev/microsoft-teams-test-tab
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
A test tab for Microsoft Teams used to exercise the platform and SDK
Contributions:47 reviews, 47 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 9 months
microsoft-teamssdkmicrosoft
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