Vladimir Iliev
Senior Software Engineer at Payhawk
Sofia-City, Bulgaria
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Top SchoolVladimir Iliev is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading front-end and full-stack initiatives, currently driving product engineering at Payhawk. He specializes in modern JavaScript/TypeScript stacks (React, Angular, Node.js) and component-driven design, having led design system creation, large migrations and core UI library improvements across multiple companies. A long-time contributor to Telerik/Kendo UI projects, he has hands-on experience improving internationalization, grid/scheduler components and developer-facing examples used by many teams. Vladimir combines strong architecture and mentorship skills with practical delivery—refactoring legacy portals, designing microservices and improving performance and accessibility. Based in Sofia, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a history of cross-disciplinary experience spanning backend, databases and earlier work in survey programming and ERP integrations.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Fundamentals of programing and Introduction to programing with C#, Fundamentals of programing and Introduction to programing with C# at National Academy for Software Development (NARS)Bechelor of International Economic Relations, Internetional economics, Bechelor of International Economic Relations, Internetional economics at International Business Schoolonal (IBS) BotevgradBusiness Manager, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Business Manager, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at Burger King GmbH, MuenchenTelerik Academy, Telerik Academy at Telerik Academy
English, Bulgarian
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Github Skills (16)
localization10
javascript10
asp-net-mvc10
user-interface10
dashboard10
jquery10
kendo-ui10
widgets10
ui-components10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
html9
css8
telerik6
scheduler6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
telerik/kendo-ui-core
Jan 2013 - Feb 2017
An HTML5, jQuery-based widget library for building modern web apps.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:539 commits, 6 PRs, 139 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily contributed to the Kendo UI core library by addressing bugs, enhancing the framework's internationalization, and improving the overall user experience. They fixed an issue with the `kendo.offset` method and another that prevented full localization of the Scheduler component. The user also added styles for the noRecords template in the grid and added and translated the noRecords option messages in multiple languages.
jquerywidgetskendo-uitelerikjavascript
telerik/ui-for-aspnet-mvc-examples
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
A collection of Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC examples
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily contributed to the UI components and examples within the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC examples repository. The commits show a focus on adding and modifying demos, including grid and scheduler examples. The user's work involved adapting and integrating existing UI components with code demonstrating use cases, template customization and adding of features.
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