Olga Filipova

Olga Filipova was born in Ukraine in Kyiv. She has grown up in the family of physicists, scientists and professors. She has studied System Analysis in the National University of Ukraine Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. At the age of 20 she has moved to Portugal where she did her Bachelor's and Master’s degree in Computer Science in the University of Coimbra. During her studies she participated in research and development of European projects and has become an assistant teacher of Operating Systems and Computer Graphics subjects. After obtaining her Master’s degree she started to work at Feedzai. At that time it was a small team of four starting developing a product from scratch and now it is one of the most successful Portuguese startups. At some point her main responsibility has become to develop a library written in JavaScript which purpose was to bring data from the engine to the web interface. This marked Olga’s main direction in tech – web development. At the same time she continued her teaching practice giving a course of Professional Web Development in the local professional education center in Coimbra. In 2013 along with her brother and her husband she starts an educational project based in Ukraine. This project’s name is EdEra and it has grown up from the small platform of online courses into a big player at the Ukrainian educational system scene. Currently EdEra is pointing into the international direction and preparing an awesome online course about IT. Don’t miss it!In 2014 Olga with her husband and daughter moves from Portugal to Berlin where starts working at Meetrics as a lead frontend engineer. Two years after she joins OptioPay as a VP engineering.Olga is happily married to the awesome guy called Rui, who is also a software engineer. Rui has studied with Olga at the university of Coimbra and worked with her at Feedzai. Olga has a smart and beautiful daughter called Taissa, fluffy cat called Patusca and two fluffiest chinchillas called Barabashka and Cheburashka.