Boris Topalov
about me
I'm a full-stack software engineer based in NYC with 2.5 years of professional experience. I currently work on B2B payments infrastructure at Capital One. Outside of work, I'm learning about LLMs by building Abby, an AI assistant for Ableton, and Petri, a tool for multi-agent AI-to-AI experiments. Beyond coding, I spend most of my time making music; these days I'm mainly producing electronic music and DJing.
work experience
- Automated a previously-manual payment refund process which reduced refund processing time from several days to less than 15 minutes.
- Built a visualization tool for customer payment lifecycles, which is used by support agents servicing thousands of enterprise customers.
- Upgraded legacy Java codebases and resolved JVM issues such as memory misallocation inside Docker containers.
- Created a Quickbooks integration which received an award at 2023 company hackathon.
- Owned, designed, developed, and shipped a cross-platform desktop audio plugin built in C++ (JUCE) and React.
- Built a pipeline in Python and AWS that used machine learning to extract musical stems for over 50,000 audio samples.
- Rearchitected core state management of a React codebase, resolving long-standing bugs and performance issues.
- Developed product strategy and pitch decks, created marketing material, and provided direct customer support for our applications on Discord.
- Built a fully autonomous GitHub crawler & scraper system which parsed thousands of GitHub pages and algorithmically ranked tens of thousands of GitHub users as candidates for recruiting.
- Created a custom priority-based job queuing system used by the system to prioritize scraping highly relevant data based on user-provided metrics.
- Improved the performance of core SQL scripts by ~70% through SQL profilers, and re-wrote large chunks of undocumented, inefficient code into well-documented and maintainable solutions.
- Created an automation-focused analytics framework which was used by teams covering $20B lending portfolios.
- Developed a monitoring and analytics dashboard that analyzed millions of data points every day to aid executive decision-making of a $7B lending business.
projects
abby
An LLM music production assistant for Ableton that can create new device chains and make suggestions as you produce.
petri
A framework for orchestrating multi-agent experiments in a user-controlled experiment setting.
locallm
Fully local chat app for an LLM agent that searches the web, cites its sources, and stores information in a vector database (RAG).
wordle-versus
Multiplayer Wordle!
spotseek
Golang client for Soulseek, a distributed peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.