Pavel Gabriel
Payment Systems Architect & Engineer, CTO Office at Moov
Białystok, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
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Top SchoolPavel Gabriel is a payments-focused systems architect and engineer with 16 years of experience building card processing platforms, gateways, and security-first infrastructure. Currently in Moov’s CTO Office, he drives cross-team technical initiatives, authors open-source ISO 8583 tooling in Go, and builds POCs that enable engineering teams to ship reliable payment services. He previously founded Vaulty to reduce PCI scope via data pseudonymization/tokenization and has led product and engineering teams as CTO across multiple fintech startups and acquisitions. Pavel combines deep protocol-level expertise (EMV, ISO 8583, acquiring/issuing) with practical hands-on skills in infrastructure, security, and OSS, and he teaches engineers how payment systems work end-to-end using real hardware. His contributions to notable OSS projects like goproxy and test automation for Capybara reflect a pragmatic focus on robustness and interoperability. Based in Białystok, Poland, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with a habit of turning complex security and payments challenges into production-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
debug10
selenium10
web-application10
headers10
testing10
proxy10
selenium-ide10
acceptance-testing10
http-proxy10
go10
webapp10
webtest10
web-testing10
asp-net6
ionic-framework6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elazarl/goproxy
May 2020 - May 2020
An HTTP proxy library for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Pavel focused on debugging and improving the Go proxy library's behavior. They addressed issues related to `Content-Length` and `Connection` headers, fixing test failures. The user also removed obsolete code and clarified the purpose of certain changes through updated comments. These modifications show a focus on refining the core functionality and ensuring the library's robustness.
golangproxy-serverproxyfiddlerhttp-proxy
teamcapybara/capybara
Feb 2010 - Feb 2010
Acceptance test framework for web applications
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the test suite, focusing on verifying the behavior of Capybara, an acceptance testing framework for web applications. Their commits demonstrate work on test cases for select boxes, and general attribute testing, as well as fixing an existing issue. Several commits include adding, modifying, and updating specifications within the test suite for the Rack-Test driver and the Selenium driver.
web-applicationsminitesttestingtest-frameworkframework
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