Svetlin Stefanov
Software Engineer at Svetlin Stefanov AB
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSvetlin Stefanov is a Stockholm-based software and AI engineering consultant with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and production AI services. He combines deep backend engineering (Rust, Go, Java) with ML and generative-AI expertise (Python, PyTorch, LangChain, LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering) and operational savvy in Kubernetes, Terraform and GCP. His career spans fast-paced product environments—from Spotify and Trustly to H&M—where he designed microservices, data pipelines and scalable ML deployments. An active open-source contributor, he has made notable Rust contributions to gitoxide, implementing a typesafe Path abstraction and refactoring git-config parsing for safer, idiomatic Git handling. Known for moving models from prototype to resilient production, he blends research-minded ML work with pragmatic systems engineering.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Systems, Master's degree, Information Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Amsterdam
English, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
version-control10
filesystem10
rust10
gitconfig10
file-operations10
fileio10
pattern-matching9
data-structure9
data-structures9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GitoxideLabs/gitoxide
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 122 commits, 22 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Svetlin primarily contributed to implementing and refactoring the `git-config` module, a Rust implementation of Git configuration. They added a `Path` type for typesafe handling of Git paths, which involved modifying existing data structures and implementing path interpolation logic. Further contributions include refactoring, documentation, and the use of `git-glob` for pattern matching.
idiomaticversion-controlrustbuilt-with-rustcargo
svetli-n/gitoxide
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git
Contributions:186 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
idiomaticrustpure-rustleanrust-lang
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