Sonia Horchidan
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at OrbDB Labs
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSonia Horchidan is a technology entrepreneur and researcher with a decade of software engineering experience, now serving as Co-Founder and CEO of OrbDB Labs. She completed a PhD at KTH focused on machine learning systems and uncertainty quantification and has hands-on experience teaching and researching distributed systems. Sonia’s background blends industry work at Google—contributing to real-time video and web audio via WebAssembly—with academic visits to Cambridge, giving her a strong bridge between production-grade engineering and cutting-edge research. Known for ambition, patience, and adaptability, she routinely tackles challenges across systems, ML, and real-time media pipelines. She brings a practical eye for shipping reliable, scalable software while maintaining curiosity for new technologies and concepts. Unusually for a founder, she keeps active in teaching and academic collaboration, ensuring her startup work remains grounded in rigorous research.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology"Emil Botta" High School, Adjud, Vrancea countyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Bucharest
Romanian, English, Swedish
Github Skills (24)
embeddable9
neo4j9
cypher9
database8
property-graph8
graph-database8
graph8
vector8
nosql7
graphdb7
uglifyjs7
parser7
embedded7
full-text-search7
distributed-computing5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
soniahorchidan/soniahorchidan.github.io
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:35 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
soniahorchidan/streaming-model-serving
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
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