About

Georgi Tenev is a highly skilled Staff Backend Engineer in ML & Data at Tide, a UK-based fintech company. With over 5 years of experience in the field, he is a core backend developer for several critical services, including a strategic ML-enabled Risk Engine pipeline that significantly improved the rate of automatically onboarded customers. Georgi is also responsible for software architecture and design of new services, guiding the team on day-to-day challenges and ensuring efficient delivery of lean solutions in collaboration with PM/POs. Georgi is an expert in Python, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and other relevant technologies. He has developed end-to-end implementations, testing, and deployment of real-time, event-driven services. Georgi has also piloted the integration of a managed Feature store solution to some of Tide's ML-enabled services. Georgi has an impressive educational background, with a Master's degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence from the University of Leuven, a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, and a Mathematics and Informatics degree from the National High School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. In his past roles, Georgi served as a Software Architect Consultant at Looming Tech, where he consulted and supervised innovative projects, and as a Team Lead - Python Data Engineer at South Gate Tech, where he worked on exciting projects within Tide. Georgi is a mentor to his team and an intern, sharing his knowledge on soft and technical skills. He also conducts internal and external knowledge-sharing sessions, presenting at various internal meetings and external meetups within the London/Sofia software and data science communities. Georgi is responsible for the hiring process across two geographic locations, defining the process, conducting interviews, and training others on how to interview. He is also responsible for defining and planning function-level strategic initiatives executed by the engineering function. Georgi's tech stack includes Backend, Senior Software Engineer, ML, test, Data Scientist, AWS, Python, Parts-of-speech, product manager, Docker, Kafka, Integration, and Data Engineering. He is a versatile and dynamic professional with a passion for entrepreneurship, code, and art.