About the Author
Olga Filipova was born in Ukraine, in Kyiv. She grew up in a family of physicists,
scientists, and professors. She studied system analysis at the National University of Ukraine
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. At the age of 20, she moved to Portugal where she did her
bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science in the University of Coimbra. During
her studies, she participated in research and development of European projects and became
an assistant teacher of operating systems and computer graphics. After obtaining her
master's degree, she started to work at Feedzai. At that time, it was a small team of four
who developed a product from scratch, and now it is one of the most successful Portuguese
startups. At some point, her main responsibility became to develop a library written in
JavaScript whose 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 in a course of professional web development in the local professional
education center in Coimbra.
In 2013, along with her brother and her husband, she started an educational project based in
Ukraine. This project's name is EdEra and it has grown from a small platform of online
courses into a big player in the Ukrainian educational system. Currently, EdEra is pointing
in an the international direction and preparing an awesome online course about IT. Don't
miss it!
In 2014, Olga, with her husband and daughter, moved from Portugal to Berlin, where she
started working at Meetrics as a frontend engineer, and after a year she became the lead of
an amazing team of frontend software developers.
Olga is happily married to an awesome guy called Rui, who is also a software engineer. Rui
studied with Olga at the University of Coimbra and worked with her at Feedzai. Olga has a
smart and beautiful daughter called Taissa, a fluffy cat called Patusca, and two fluffiest
chinchillas called Barabashka and Cheburashka.
