Sonia Horchidan
PHD Student at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSonia Horchidan is a technology entrepreneur and researcher with a decade of software engineering experience, now serving as Co-Founder and CEO of OrbDB Labs. She completed a PhD at KTH focused on machine learning systems and uncertainty quantification and has hands-on experience teaching and researching distributed systems. Sonia’s background blends industry work at Google—contributing to real-time video and web audio via WebAssembly—with academic visits to Cambridge, giving her a strong bridge between production-grade engineering and cutting-edge research. Known for ambition, patience, and adaptability, she routinely tackles challenges across systems, ML, and real-time media pipelines. She brings a practical eye for shipping reliable, scalable software while maintaining curiosity for new technologies and concepts. Unusually for a founder, she keeps active in teaching and academic collaboration, ensuring her startup work remains grounded in rigorous research.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Graph Data Management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Graph Data Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology"Emil Botta" High School, Adjud, Vrancea countyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 9.83/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 9.83/10 at University of Bucharest
Romanian, English, Swedish
Github Skills (33)
neo4j9
cypher9
property-graph8
embeddable8
graph8
nosql7
compressor7
graph-database7
graphdb7
uglifyjs7
database7
parser7
embedded7
database-management7
scalability5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
soniahorchidan/soniahorchidan.github.io
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:35 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
soniahorchidan/streaming-model-serving
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
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