Minko Gechev

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led Angular product strategy at Google.
  • Founded EdTech startup acquired by Coursera.
  • Recognized as a key industry thought leader.
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JavaScriptDesign PatternsAlgorithmsData StructuresAgile MethodologiesUnit TestingAJAXGitPHPCSSMySQLNode.jsSQLJavaC#

About

Product-minded engineering leader. Shaping the future of developer productivity at Google. Extensive experience in software development, AI, web, open source, and developer relations. Previously founded and led an EdTech startup acquired by Coursera. Dedicated to empowering developers with cutting-edge tools and technologies.

Experience

Google

4 roles

Senior Staff Software Engineer, uber-TL across web and multiplatform

Promoted

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

  • Technical lead across Google's web and multiplatform frameworks focused on AI strategy
  • Designing and developing agentic workflows to transform UI development inside of Google
  • Work cross organizationally to improve codegen for internal UI frameworks and refine agentic APIs

Senior Staff Developer Relations Engineer (Product Lead)

Oct 2023Sep 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Led the Angular product strategy including features and roadmap planning, marketing, and developer relations.
  • Led the Angular and Wiz convergence strategy delivering convergence on reactivity, dependency injection, debugging APIs, and developer tooling.
  • Established partnerships with internal and external teams to drive developer experience improvements in their flows and integrations with Angular.
  • Delivered keynotes and main stage sessions at events like JSNation, DevWorld, ng-conf, etc.

Staff Developer Relations Engineer (Product Lead)

Promoted

Oct 2021Oct 2023 · 2 yrs

  • Led the strategy for the Angular framework, shaping its product direction, developer narrative, and ecosystem alignment. Informed Google's web framework strategy for key events like Google I/O.
  • Initiated and led the technical and organizational convergence strategy between Google's two major internal web frameworks, Angular and Wiz.
  • Identified overlap across Angular and Wiz which unified the reactivity model for major apps like Google Cloud, YouTube, and Search.
  • Act as a recognized domain expert in Google's VP-level web strategy reviews, co-authoring key documents and influencing the technical direction of peer teams across the Core Web organization.
  • Secured budget and directed a cross-functional team to revitalize Angular across brand, narrative, and product roadmap.
  • Achieved Google representation at over 120 events from 2021-2023, reaching more than 40,000 developers directly despite resource constraints.
  • Managed and mentored a high-performing Developer Relations team, with my leadership scope recently expanding to include the Google Photos DevRel team. Started the Bazel DevRel team.
  • Recognized as a key industry thought leader, delivering keynotes at global conferences (ng-conf, NGPoland, Google I/O, iJS, FrontEnd Con, ConnectTech Open Source Community Africa).

Senior Developer Programs Engineer

Nov 2018Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Grew the Angular DevRel team defining our strategy, budget, and OKRs.
  • Led a strategic shift to prioritize transparency and social media, rebuilding community trust. This effort resulted in: +1,194% YoY growth in Twitter likes (+67k) and +1,797% in impressions (+21.5M), +1,048% YoY growth in YouTube video views.
  • Drove the creation of a public roadmap and a community RFC process, integrating community feedback directly into the development process.
  • Implemented and automated a new feature request and issue-tracking process that reduced the open issue backlog by over 59%.
  • Conceived and led the creation of Angular DevTools, an official debugging and profiling tool.
  • Designed the core architecture of Angular DevTools, designed and developed stable debugging APIs in the framework required for DevTools' success.
  • Led the cross-functional launch strategy (Chrome, Dev Marketing) for Angular DevTools. We launched at Google I/O and integrated Angular DevTools in I/O adventure as part of the interactive experience.
  • Drove the creation of a new debugging content series and improved error message guides to make debugging tractable for all developers.
  • Led strategic partnerships with Firebase, TensorFlow.js, and Chrome to increase Angular's visibility and drive a consistent developer experience at major events like Google I/O.
  • Worked with the Chrome metrics team to resolve a critical issue in Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) affecting hundreds of thousands of web apps.

Sofia university

Part Time Lecturer

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Sofia · Remote

  • Lecturer in the course "Web Development"

Rhyme.com (acquired by coursera)

Founder & CTO

Aug 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Created the idea of the product, prototyped it, and open sourced it as plainvm.mgechev.com
  • Designed and developed distributed platform for online learning acquired by Coursera
  • Hired and led 8 people full-stack engineering team that delivered the final product and is currently part of the Coursera Labs initiative
  • Introduced design, development, and quality assurance processes
  • To support our development processes I created the linter revive which became one of the most popular tools for static code analysis in the Go community
  • Launched Rhyme at ng-conf in front of over 2k developers during my hands-on workshop
  • Forbes included me in their 30 under 30 because of my contributions to the Bulgarian engineering ecosystem by bringing Coursera to the country
  • The President of the Republic of Bulgaria awarded me for my impactful open source contributions I developed to support Rhyme's infrastructure

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Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2016Aug 2018 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Design and development of a browser-based educational game for kids called Brownie Points. Across all platforms we reached 200k users.
  • Hired and led 4 people engineering team which was on charge of the backend, front-end and QA.
  • Developed and evangelized best practices for Angular application development. Spoke at 15+ international Web development conferences and delivered popular blog posts with my findings.
  • Created scalable architecture which allowed Brownie Points to grow in the dynamic startup environment without an introduction of technical debt.
  • Evangelized the architecture at two international conferences in Belgium and Belarus.
  • Introduced industry best practices for development of Angular apps with the development of codelyzer which the Angular team at Google included in their official development tooling. Currently, codelyzer has over 100m downloads.

Sofia university

2 roles

Part-time Lecturer

Oct 2013Feb 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sofia

  • Lecturer in the courses "Advanced JavaScript"

Teaching Assistant

Feb 2013Feb 2015 · 2 yrs · Sofia

  • Teaching assistant in the exercises of few courses including programming with ASP.NET and Design and Analysis of Information Systems.

Vmware

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2012Feb 2013 · 6 mos · Sofia

  • Design and development of AppletBlaster. Technology for provisioning of Java applets through HTML5 enabled browser running on a machine without Java Runtime Environment.

Jqwidgets ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2011Jun 2012 · 1 yr · Sofia

  • Design and development of Web UI components.

Independent

Freelance Consultant

Jul 2009Jul 2016 · 7 yrs

  • Design and development of various software systems. I've been contracting with Google and other big technological companies.
  • Technical trainings in Angular, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

Education

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

Master of Science (MSc) — Software Engineering

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

Bachelor of Science (BSc) — Information Systems

Saint Kliment Ohridski, Troyan

High school — Mathematics and Informatics

Ivan Hadjiiski, Troyan

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