Paul Klimashkin
Director Of Engineering at Illumio
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Klimashkin is a Director of Engineering based in Mountain View with two decades in software engineering and 14 years of hands-on product experience, currently leading engineering at Illumio. He specializes in building scalable, secure, real-world systems across enterprise, B2B marketplaces, public platforms and cybersecurity, and has a strong track record of evolving UI platforms and UX-driven teams. A pragmatic, hands-on leader, he mentors engineers, optimizes workflows, and drives measurable business impact through systems and process improvements. His background includes architecting high-scale Node.js microservices, real-time platforms (WebSockets), and data pipelines for analytics—skills honed while growing PastVu.com into a 150k-user archival social platform. Equally comfortable in front-end and back-end concerns, he combines product sensibility with deep engineering rigor and a penchant for practical solutions over perfect abstractions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys)Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
beautifier10
memoized-selectors10
bundler10
linter10
middleware10
localization10
imports10
sketching10
postcss-loader10
json10
intl10
commonjs10
html-email10
splitting10
nodejs10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
klimashkin/css-modules-theme
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
🚀 Theme composition for CSS Modules done simple/fast/complete
Contributions:1 review, 88 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 10 months
compositionsasscsscss-modulesscss
klimashkin/postcss-assets-webpack-plugin
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
Webpack plugin to apply postcss plugins on webpack's emit event (after loaders)
Contributions:6 releases, 3 reviews, 16 commits in 4 years 11 months
loaderscode-splittingpostcsswebpack4html-webpack-plugin
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