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Lachezar Lechev

Worked extensively on the stremio-web repository, delivering a range of user-facing features and stability improvements over nine months. Focus areas included enhancing media playback reliability, refining streaming and download workflows, and improving user interaction through UI feedback and keyboard accessibility. Leveraged JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to implement features such as stream download link copying, user recommendations, and rating systems, while also addressing playback bugs and dependency upgrades for smoother releases. Emphasized maintainable code by refactoring streaming APIs, updating data models, and managing package dependencies, resulting in a more robust, user-friendly web application with improved release readiness and developer velocity.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

80%Features

Repository Contributions

34Total
Bugs
5
Commits
34
Features
20
Lines of code
528
Activity Months9

Your Network

26 people

Work History

January 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026 monthly summary for stremio-web: Delivered a user-centric feature to copy stream download links and ensure stream URLs resolve to the correct streamable URL, improving sharing accuracy and playback reliability. Implemented as part of the "Stream Download Links Copy and Stream URL Handling" feature with the commit e11366b3748f7fcdd2e0fb24ec10a0a83378cbb9 (fix(streams): copy stream link returns streamable url feat(streams): add copy download link). The work enhances user experience while maintaining robust URL resolution.

December 2025

3 Commits • 3 Features

Dec 1, 2025

Monthly summary for 2025-12 focusing on features delivered, release readiness, and impact for stremio-web.

November 2025

4 Commits

Nov 1, 2025

Month: 2025-11 — Focused on stabilizing media playback, improving download reliability, and updating core web dependencies in stremio/stremio-web. Key outcomes include: 1) Reliable Player Streaming and Loading: refactor to use player.stream and improved loading when stream is not ready, reducing playback errors. 2) Download URL Priority for Video Downloads: ensured downloads use the downloadUrl over streamingUrl for a reliable download experience. 3) Dependency Upgrade: upgraded stremio-core-web to 0.51.0 to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. Impact: lower error rates, smoother playback, and more dependable downloads, contributing to improved user satisfaction and reduced support overhead. Technologies/skills: JavaScript/React refactoring, streaming APIs usage, dependency management, and code quality improvements with strong commit-level traceability.

October 2025

3 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

2025-10 monthly summary for stremio/stremio-web. Focused on stability and compatibility: upgraded core-web dependency and removed a flaky integrity check in the core library, reducing runtime errors and improving maintainability across the web app.

September 2025

2 Commits • 2 Features

Sep 1, 2025

2025-09 Monthly Summary for stremio/stremio-web. Key features delivered: (1) PullUserFromAPI: Flexible Data Handling — modified the PullUserFromAPI action to include an args object, enabling more flexible data handling when dispatching user data requests from the API. Commit: 88ed54641420b20ad85d9403933726a16a11cbbc. (2) Stremio Core Web Dependency Upgrade for Compatibility — upgraded the stremio-core-web dependency to ensure compatibility and access to latest features and fixes. Commit: 4001ea3accc65d5ee34cf51c1a8ad76dea489432. Overall impact: improved API data handling resilience and compatibility, reducing potential integration issues and enabling smoother future feature work. Technologies/skills demonstrated: JavaScript/TypeScript, dependency management, semantic versioning, disciplined and descriptive commit messages.

May 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 — stremio-web: Delivered key user-engagement features and tightened security, enabling richer personalization and more robust releases. Features included User Recommendations and MetaPreview Rating System, with a critical dependency integrity update to the core web package, aligning with release readiness and performance goals.

February 2025

7 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary for stremio/stremio-web: Delivered key playback and navigation enhancements, expanded data modeling for external playback, and upgraded core dependencies to improve stability and developer velocity. Focused on UX clarity, streaming data structure, and maintainability across the web client. Business impact includes more intuitive season handling, clearer mute behavior, reliable time display after load, and support for external playback in shell environments.

January 2025

7 Commits • 4 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 (2025-01) delivered core UX and streaming enhancements for stremio-web, focusing on stream discovery, interactive UI, and streaming reliability. Implemented the Stream LastUsed indicator by renaming the 'suggested' property to 'lastUsed' and updating MetaDetails and related components/styles, enabling clearer differentiation of recently used streams. Enhanced the ControlBar with a hover-based statistics menu that appears on mouse enter and hides on mouse leave, improving quick access to metrics without cluttering the UI. Refactored the Player to use player.stream instead of player.selected, leading to a cleaner streaming flow and improved subtitle handling. Upgraded core dependencies to enable metadata details, suggested streams, and archives features, laying groundwork for richer discovery and streaming capabilities.

November 2024

4 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 monthly summary for stremio/stremio-web focusing on delivering features and stabilizing playback UX while upgrading core dependencies. Key achievements include streaming server URL work enabling new URL handling by aligning the core-web dependency to a feature branch and enhancing streaming URL support; upgrading stremio-core-web to 0.48.0 to incorporate latest features and fixes; and a Player Seek Enhancement that improves seek bar interactions and keyboard navigation with efficient state changes. Major fixes include a bug fix for Seekbar action and arrow-key handling to ensure reliable seeking. Commit references highlight the work: d88aef1b0c876eda11e301536f2a391a53169fd9; 2cb027d99c6b23e77c6a95f9c2aa0f0bfaffd731; b6e141989c12482dce02054f09f3049c31450d5a; 6ead60808693e68e2a2d9a80131dce ca5bca8256. (Note: see details below in Key Achievements.)

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Quality Metrics

Correctness94.2%
Maintainability91.8%
Architecture91.8%
Performance91.8%
AI Usage29.4%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JSONJavaScriptLESSTypeScript

Technical Skills

JavaScriptModelingNode.jsReactType DefinitionsTypeScriptbug fixingdependency managementfront end developmentlibrary developmentpackage managementversion controlweb development

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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stremio/stremio-web

Nov 2024 Jan 2026
9 Months active

Languages Used

JSONJavaScriptLESSTypeScript

Technical Skills

JavaScriptNode.jsReactdependency managementfront end developmentweb development