Summary
Filipp Vasilev is a backend team lead based in Lisbon with 8 years of hands-on experience delivering reliable, full-stack systems for fintech and health-tech products. He combines architecture design, requirement gathering, and pragmatic system evolution to clear technical debt, accelerate delivery, and improve developer experience. At Zion he eliminated a two-year backlog in six months, migrated a legacy codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript, and built onboarding and documentation practices that scaled across teams. Now leading backend and full‑stack engineers at BrainRocket, he focuses on timely feature delivery, SDLC improvements, and technical debt management. Known for turning fuzzy business needs into fault‑tolerant, testable systems, he pairs people leadership and hiring experience with a strong operational bias.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer