Head of Engineering · Unit Lead · CTO
Igor Pavlov
Engineering Leader for product, platform, and AI-enabled teams
Engineering leader with 13+ years in backend, product engineering, infrastructure, and team leadership. I have led teams from early formation to 30 people, built team leads, introduced hiring and performance systems, owned delivery and reliability, and shipped operationally critical fintech and B2B SaaS products.
CTOLatest role at Deeplens
3 -> 30Cross-functional unit scaled at Uzum
2 leadsGrew independent team leads
40k+Cards issued via reliable tooling
Leadership Experience
Deeplens
Chief Technical Officer · 2025-2026- Led engineering for a B2B SaaS product in AI-assisted feedback analysis and review processing.
- Owned architecture, delivery, product discovery, client-data demo stands, and technical trade-offs.
- Built AI-native engineering practices: prompt regression, output benchmarking, review automation, and faster product iteration.
Uzum
Team Leader / Unit Tech Leader · 2022-2025- Scaled a fintech unit from 3 to 30 people across engineering, analytics, and operations.
- Grew two team leads who became owners of independent teams.
- Built internal tooling for bank operations and card issuance under high reliability requirements.
- Introduced hiring, onboarding, delivery routines, architectural committee, and knowledge workflows.
Worki / VK Rabota
Back-end Engineer -> Head of Development · 2018-2022- Built the engineering team from scratch to 11-20 people and established management practices.
- Introduced hiring, 1:1s, 360 reviews, performance cycles, and technical ownership.
- Owned monetization systems, B2B integrations, service rewrites, infrastructure scaling, and reliability.
Earlier engineering foundation
2011-2018Backend, Rails, Python, Django, Flask, React, Unity3D, ML prototypes, startup product work, infrastructure, and international consulting.