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CTO · Head of Engineering · Engineering Leader

Igor Pavlov

Engineering leader for product, fintech, and AI-enabled teams

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

13+ years in engineering—from backend systems to CTO. I build teams and delivery systems where growth, reliability, and accountability can no longer be managed by hand. I stay technically deep—architecture reviews, code, real trade-offs—while building the hiring, ownership, and management layer that lets the business ship predictably.

13+ yearsBackend engineer to CTO
3 → 30Scaled a fintech unit at Uzum without losing delivery
40,000+Cards issued through bank tooling I built
1 yearBackend Engineer to Head of Development at Worki

Experience

Deeplens

Chief Technical Officer · 2025–2026
  • Led engineering for a B2B SaaS product turning customer feedback and public reviews into product insight; owned the full cycle from discovery to demo environments with live client data.
  • Built a client-facing TUI that lets users talk to their data and explore analysis results conversationally—from concept to working product.
  • Introduced an LLM quality loop: prompt regression cases, output benchmarks, and automated review cycles for faster, safer AI iteration.

Uzum · Tashkent

Team Leader / Unit Tech Leader · 2022–2025
  • Scaled a cross-functional unit from 3 to 30 people across engineering, analytics, and operations—built hiring, onboarding, delivery rituals, and an architectural committee.
  • Built internal bank-operations and card-issuance tooling with zero tolerance for failures: 40,000+ cards issued through systems I designed.
  • Developed 2 of 4 team leads into independent team owners; created an AI-assisted knowledge base used by both support and engineering teams.

Worki / VK Rabota · Moscow

Backend Engineer → Head of Development · 2018–2022
  • Promoted from Backend Engineer to Head of Development in one year; built the engineering org from scratch to 11–20 people with real 1:1s, 360 reviews, and performance cycles.
  • Designed a flexible monetization system with self-serve B2B integrations; owned reliability for a platform with hundreds of thousands of users.
  • Technical contributions: forked and extended prerender.io, built custom NATS clients for Ruby and Elixir, open-sourced a ClickHouse package.

Earlier experience

2011–2018

Backend systems, Rails, Python, Django, Flask, React, Unity3D, ML prototypes, startup products, international consulting (SVI / Silicon Valley Internship).