Summary
Pavel Apalkov is a pragmatic team lead and senior software engineer with nine years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native systems for large Russian enterprises. He has led design and delivery of a unified knowledge base at Sberbank that serves 10k users at 1k RPS, replacing a vendor product and improving search relevance and service speed. Deeply hands-on in Java/Spring ecosystems, he also architects storage schemas, converters and search pipelines while operating CI/CD, observability and service mesh in OpenShift. Pavel combines technical leadership with coaching—creating individual development plans and upskilling teams—and has a track record of refactoring monoliths into resilient microservices. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and data-graph problems, he tends to optimize for performance and developer productivity rather than purely feature parity. He can be reached on Telegram as @PApalkov.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at MIREA (Russian Technological University)