Summary
Ivan Pachev is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building large-scale data systems and streaming pipelines, currently working at Google. He specializes in data warehousing, query optimization, machine learning, data semantics and emerging vector database technologies, and has hands-on experience processing exabyte-scale datasets. His background includes distributed computing and enterprise build systems from WANdisco and computer vision for semiconductor robotics from Logosol, reflecting a blend of systems and applied research. Holding a MS in Computer Science and a BS in Software Engineering with a math minor from Cal Poly SLO, he pairs strong academic foundations with production engineering at scale. Outside of work he pursues continual learning and plays jazz, an interest that echoes his improvisational approach to solving complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English, Bulgarian, Spanish, Japanese