Summary
Pavel Efimov is a seasoned backend leader and Team Lead Golang with 10 years of experience building and optimizing high-throughput Go platforms. He consistently ships revenue-critical features in under a month while reducing memory use and error rates—cutting RAM by half and P95 latency by 15% in production systems operating at tens of thousands RPS. Pavel champions 100% observability and postmortems, driving MTTR below 30 minutes and introducing on-call and incident practices that decreased RCA time dramatically. He mentors and scales teams (currently leading seven engineers), spreads knowledge through internal talks, and influences cross-functional KPIs via targeted service improvements. Comfortable across cloud, databases, gRPC/Kafka, and OpenTelemetry, he pairs hands-on performance tuning (e.g., an 85% response-time reduction) with pragmatic architecture decisions. Based in Saint Petersburg, he’s equally likely to be writing a production optimization in Go or turning operational learnings into team-wide engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Университет ИТМО
English, Russian