Summary
Pavel Konovalov is a seasoned IoT and software architect with more than 30 years building mission-critical systems for Smart Grids, renewable energy, and industrial automation. He combines hands-on development with strategic product leadership, currently serving as IoT Consultant at Pratexo while also guiding real-time industrial IoT initiatives as Chief Software Architect at his own consultancy. He has hands-on expertise across Go, C, C++, C#, Python, and Swift, and implements multi-protocol industrial communication stacks (IEC-61850, IEC-104, Modbus, OPC-UA, DNP3, MQTT) within microservice-based backends. Notably, he led FLISR-related development at EMA LLC, including a real-time 6-10kV fault location, isolation, and restoration module and a digital 10 kV recloser model used to test grid restoration algorithms. He has a strong leadership track record, including Deputy CTO at EMA and SCADA/DMS integration programs with GE PowerOn Fusion, and holds an honors degree in Computer Science from NSTU, with prior academic work as a senior lecturer. Based in the Tel-Aviv District, Israel, Pavel combines technical depth with practical, deployable solutions that bridge grid analytics, OT/IT integration, and secure, scalable backend architectures.
9 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Computer Science, Honours, Computer Science at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Russian, English, Hebrew