Summary
Stefan Savev is a Lead Software Engineer based in Berlin with over 12 years of hands-on experience and more than 20 years of cumulative software engineering practice across industries, combining production-grade coding with cloud and DevOps leadership. He holds a PhD-level problem-solving mindset and deep expertise in Big Data, ML, security and cloud architecture, backed by AWS and Google Cloud certifications and frequent work with Terraform and CloudFormation. As founder and CEO of Stream ML and now leading engineering at Klarna, he pairs entrepreneurial product thinking with the ability to architect, ship and operate resilient microservices and data pipelines in production. Stefan is polyglot across Python, Java, Go, Scala and Bash, fluent in both functional and object-oriented paradigms, and comfortable translating ambiguous requirements into performant, maintainable systems. He regularly partners with stakeholders from founders to engineers and accelerates projects with rapid prototypes, A/B testing and disciplined release processes. An underappreciated strength is his ability to read ML models as structure for high-dimensional system design, enabling clearer architectures for complex data products.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
foreign language school lovetch
"D. Tzenov" University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Northeastern University
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
English, German