Filip Popić
Head Of Data Engineering
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFilip Popić is a Head of Data Engineering based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building data platforms across music, travel, and adtech. He leads teams that turn complex business needs into reliable, documented data products, having cut onboarding time from months to days and introduced DataOps practices that reduced alert noise and improved operational confidence. His background spans hands-on pipeline engineering (Airflow, BigQuery, Beam, Spark, Kubernetes) and influencing global tooling decisions like shifting org-wide CI/CD to GitHub Actions. Filip combines technical depth with people-first leadership—he mentors engineers, improves recruitment, and shepherds cross-functional governance as a Data Governance Steward. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s known for applying “working backwards” product thinking to prioritize high-impact solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at FER
Croatian, English, German
Stackoverflow
1,776reputation
196kreached
15answers
31questions
ssh
top-5%
gitlab
top-5%
Github Skills (167)
python10
ber10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
streaming10
apache-airflow10
beam10
data-engineering10
big-data10
scheduler10
sbt-assembly10
sql10
elt10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
travelaudience/data-engineering-challenge
Apr 2019 - Jul 2023
travel audience Data Engineering Challenge
Contributions:1 review, 3 comments in 4 years 3 months
data-sciencetraveldata-engineeringaudiencescala
fpopic/scala-code-generation-poc
May 2019 - May 2021
(Learning) shapeless / scalamacros / scalameta
Contributions:1 PR, 49 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
raiizioscalametascalazscala3
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