Pavel Gurkov
Site Reliability Engineer at The Trade Desk
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPavel Gurkov is a Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building and operating high-throughput, resilient infrastructure for payments and large-scale streaming platforms. He has driven SRE and staff-engineer responsibilities at companies like The Trade Desk, Dojo and Booking.com, owning CI/CD, Kafka fleet operations (30+ clusters, multi-GBps), observability and on-call practices. Pavel combines deep systems automation—authoring tools like swiss-knife and rebuilding dashboard/backup systems—with hands-on work from OS-level provisioning to API-facing products such as Queues-as-a-Service. At Dojo he led the end-to-end delivery of POS/PDQ APIs, CI/CD (GHA → ArgoCD + Helm → GKE) and interactive testing environments, showing a knack for both developer UX and production hardening. Pragmatic and prolific in automation, he favors elegant, maintainable tooling that reduces toil and downtime.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Power engineering, 4.5, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Power engineering, 4.5 at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
Russian, English
Stackoverflow
747reputation
52kreached
36answers
6questions
Github Skills (107)
monitoring10
golang10
json10
kafka10
time-series10
modbus10
puppet9
mqtt9
ruby9
telegraf9
yahoo9
influxdb9
load-testing9
xpath9
financial-data9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trueneu/swiss-knife
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:16 releases, 154 commits, 20 PRs in 11 months
golanghoststinyextendablecli
bookingcom/perl-Net-Kafka
Oct 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
sinkapache-kafkaapachesaslproducer
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