Pavel Alay
Delivery Manager at EPAM Systems
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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RockstarPavel Alay is a Delivery Manager with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently leading delivery at EPAM Systems after progressing from Lead Software Engineer roles. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used iText Java PDF library, where he solved complex text extraction and font-handling issues—with people and project leadership at scale. Pavel’s background spans product-focused engineering at iText and Dual Lab and long-term systems work at Altsoft, giving him deep domain knowledge in document processing and resilient backend systems. He is based in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, and is known for bridging low-level debugging skills with pragmatic delivery practices. An understated strength is his capacity to translate tricky technical edge cases (like Indic script decoding) into reliable production fixes that improve downstream developer and customer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (9)
text-extraction10
javas10
font-face10
fonts10
pdf-parsing10
java10
unicode10
pdf6
itext6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
itext/itext-java
Aug 2014 - Oct 2019
iText for Java represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enhance PDF documents, iText can be a boon to nearly every workflow.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 742 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Pavel appears to be focused on implementing and debugging core functionalities within the itext/itext-java repository, specifically related to PDF parsing and text extraction. Their contributions involve fixing issues with decoding text, particularly for Indic scripts, and adding enhancements for accurate text extraction, such as implementing methods to calculate average character widths. They also addressed issues with handling various font types and contributed to the management and correct rendering of font-related components within the PDF documents.
signature-padpdf-documentssignatureabilitypdf-generation
pavel-alay/drebedengi-api
Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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