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Engineering Manager · Product engineering · High-load systems

Igor Pavlov

Engineering leader building autonomous teams and reliable delivery systems

[email protected] t.me/beastia linkedin.com/in/gophan igor-pavlov.ru

Engineering leader with 13+ years in backend, product engineering, infrastructure, and people management. I build teams that reach product goals without constant manual coordination: developing leaders, making ownership explicit, removing delivery friction, and turning recurring problems into measurable improvements. I have scaled organizations to 30 people and led products where availability, operational quality, and fast iteration had to work together.

3 → 30Cross-functional fintech unit scaled
2 leadsDeveloped into independent team owners
11–20Engineering organization built at Worki
40k+Cards issued through operational tooling

Leadership Experience

Deeplens

Chief Technical Officer · 2025–2026
  • Led engineering and delivery for a B2B SaaS product analyzing customer feedback and public reviews.
  • Turned product and quality problems into testable hypotheses, regression cases, output benchmarks, and shorter feedback loops.
  • Owned architecture and delivery trade-offs while keeping the team close to real customer data and business outcomes.

Uzum

Team Leader / Unit Tech Leader · 2022–2025
  • Scaled a fintech unit from 3 to 30 people across engineering, analytics, and operations.
  • Developed two team leads into independent owners instead of routing decisions through one manager.
  • Built internal systems for bank operations and card issuance, supporting 40,000+ issued cards under strict reliability requirements.
  • Introduced hiring, onboarding, delivery routines, architecture review, documentation, and knowledge workflows as the organization grew.

Worki / VK Rabota

Back-end Engineer → Head of Development · 2018–2022
  • Built the engineering team from scratch to 11–20 people and established a sustainable management system.
  • Introduced hiring, 1:1s, 360 reviews, performance cycles, technical ownership, and direct feedback practices.
  • Led monetization, B2B integrations, service rewrites, infrastructure scaling, and reliability work for a growing product.

Earlier engineering foundation

2011–2018

Backend and product engineering with Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, Flask, React, infrastructure, ML prototypes, startup products, and international consulting.