Filip Mares
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFilip Mares is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience leading engineering teams from startup to large-scale product organizations. He has driven product and platform work across Microsoft—shaping AI-enabled experiences in Power Apps, Lobe, Skype, and now M365 Copilot’s App Builder—blending front-end craftsmanship with platform-level design. Known for building inclusive, high-performing teams, he pairs hands-on technical leadership with strong delivery discipline, from incubation projects to public previews and GA roadmaps. His background includes founding-engineer work at Talko and scaling consumer-facing systems that reached millions of users, demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and enterprise execution. Filip’s career shows a repeated pattern of turning research and incubation efforts into production-ready products that democratize AI and productivity tooling. He holds engineering degrees from Carleton University and a track record of improving engineering practices through mentorship, test automation, and design review culture.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng, Computer Systems Engineering, B. Eng, Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton UniversityHigh School, High School at Grand River Collegiate Institute
Romanian, Spanish, French, English
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Github Skills (89)
visual-studio10
backbone10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
javascript9
playback9
audio9
react-native9
ios9
react9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
filipmares/vscode-specialsboard-theme
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
filipmares/export-google-play
Oct 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 11 months
csvexportjavascriptgoogle-playplaylist
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