Boris Filipov
Principal Engineer at SoundCloud
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBoris Filipov is a Principal Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building and scaling recommendation algorithms and real-time systems for millions of users. He progressed through hands-on engineering roles at SoundCloud—moving from software engineer to principal—after earlier Ruby and JavaScript work at startups and consultancies. Boris combines deep backend expertise with product-focused delivery, routinely translating data-driven models into low-latency production services. He brings practical experience across the full stack and a history of shipping at scale in both remote and studio environments, with roots in applied computer science from Karlsruhe. An engineer who values pragmatic design, he often bridges experimentation and production to accelerate user-facing personalization.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (11)
homekit4
camera3
mysql2
rails2
raspberry-pi2
cloud-foundry2
ruby1
algorithm1
message-digest1
cf-cli1
cli1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
borfd/fpinscala
May 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 8 months
borfd/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Mar 2024
Contributions:8 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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