CTO · Engineering leadership · Practical AI
Igor Pavlov
Engineering & AI Transformation Consultant
Engineering leader with 13+ years in backend, product engineering, team scaling, delivery systems, and AI-assisted workflows. Former CTO at Deeplens, Unit Tech Lead at Uzum, and Head of Development at Worki / VK Rabota. I help companies turn unclear delivery, operational friction, and AI ambition into working systems, tooling, and stronger engineering teams.
13+ yrsEngineering and leadership
3 -> 30Unit scaled at Uzum
40k+Cards issued via internal tooling
11-20Team built at Worki / VK Rabota
Experience
Deeplens
Chief Technical Officer · 2025-2026- Led a B2B SaaS product for AI-assisted customer feedback and review analysis.
- Owned product discovery, architecture, delivery, demo stands, and client-data integration.
- Built AI-native practices: prompt regression, output benchmarking, automated review cycles, and conversational data exploration.
Uzum
Team Leader / Unit Tech Leader · 2022-2025- Scaled a fintech unit from 3 to 30 across engineering, analytics, and operations.
- Built reliable internal tooling for bank operations and card issuance, enabling 40,000+ issued cards.
- Established hiring, onboarding, delivery, technical decision-making, and AI-assisted knowledge workflows.
Worki / VK Rabota
Back-end Engineer -> Head of Development · 2018-2022- Built the engineering team from scratch to 11-20 people and introduced leadership rituals.
- Created monetization systems, B2B integrations, infrastructure scaling, and reliability practices.
- Led Ruby and Elixir service work, NATS tooling, ClickHouse integration, and prerender infrastructure.
Earlier career
2011-2018Backend, Rails, Python, Django, Flask, React, Unity3D, ML prototypes, startup products, and international consulting.