Filip Michalsky
Co-Founder at Soap Payments
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFilip Michalsky is an AI-focused founder and engineer with eight years of experience building and scaling generative AI products and teams from prototype to production. Based in New York, he co-founded Soap Payments and previously led boutique AI strategy and implementation at Odyssey AI Partners, while shipping viral open-source vertical agents like SalesGPT. His background spans hands-on ML engineering—refactoring LLM integrations and adding Anthropic support for an extensible AI web-browsing framework—to leading large data science efforts at Fidelity, including deep learning recommendation systems and ML fairness work published at ICMLA. Filip pairs a Harvard computational engineering degree with practical startup grit, having co-founded multiple companies across fintech, real estate, and healthcare. He’s as comfortable refactoring backend LLM abstractions as he is advising growth-stage execs on AI strategy, and he often bridges academic rigor with pragmatic product execution. An underappreciated strength is his track record of converting research-grade models into user-facing systems that drive adoption and measurable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Process engineering IT and Management, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Process engineering IT and Management at University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (UCT Prague)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Chemical Engineering at Technical University of MunichCORe - Credential of Readiness Business Fundamentals, CORe - Credential of Readiness Business Fundamentals at Harvard Business SchoolMaster's of Engineering Computational Science and Engineering, Master's of Engineering Computational Science and Engineering at Harvard UniversityBachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Chemistry Double - Major, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics and Chemistry Double - Major at Bates CollegeBudejovicka Grammar School, Prague
English, Czech, German, Russian, Slovak, Chinese
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Github Skills (13)
apim10
lm10
api10
openai10
anthropic10
ai10
llm10
python9
abstraction9
refactoring9
agent8
folium6
data-visualization6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
browserbase/stagehand
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
An AI web browsing framework focused on simplicity and extensibility.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 11 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Filip primarily focused on decoupling OpenAI from Stagehand and adding support for other LLMs. This involved refactoring the code to separate the LLM client into its own class and abstracting the LLM provider. They also worked on integrating Anthropic, demonstrating knowledge of different LLM APIs. Furthermore, the user updated existing examples and added improved logging for better debugging and monitoring of the codebase.
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filip-michalsky/SalesGPT
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Context-aware AI Sales Agent to automate sales outreach.
Contributions:11 releases, 33 reviews, 109 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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