Alexander Popov
Senior Software Engineering Manager at OfficeRnD
Bulgaria
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Popov is a senior software engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading full-stack teams and shipping production web applications from Bulgaria. He blends hands-on front-end expertise—demonstrated by notable contributions to the widely used Kendo UI library, improving MVVM bindings and fixing multi-select/template bugs—with backend and dashboard work on Telerik's Northwind project. At Progress and now OfficeRnD he progressed from engineering manager to senior manager, focusing on product-aligned delivery, UI/UX refinements, and cross-functional collaboration for hybrid work platforms. Known for digging into tricky data-binding and UI edge cases, he brings a pragmatic balance of technical depth and people leadership to scale engineering teams and improve developer-facing components.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
html10
databinding10
javascript10
asp-net-mvc10
csharp10
jquery10
kendo-ui10
dotnet-core10
testing9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
sql6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/kendoui-northwind-dashboard
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
A dashboard for Northwind built with Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the development of a dashboard application for Northwind, primarily focusing on front-end development using Kendo UI for ASP.NET MVC. Their work included implementing and modifying UI components such as grids and charts, as well as updating views to align with a new design. The commits also show modifications to backend code, suggesting the user worked across both front-end and back-end aspects of the application. Key contributions involved creating and integrating various views and charts to enhance the dashboard's functionality.
mvctelerik
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Nov 2013 - Nov 2016
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 1 PR, 82 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the Kendo UI MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) data binding capabilities within the `kendo-ui-core` library. Their work included adding comprehensive tests for various data types (dates, numbers, booleans) within the checked and value bindings of input elements, including the addition of data format support. Furthermore, the user addressed select element source binding issues and incorporated features like clear button and auto width functionality. They also corrected several bugs related to multi-select and template interactions.
jquerywidgetskendo-uitelerikjavascript
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