Pavel Iakovenko
Member Of Technical Staff at xAI
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPavel Iakovenko is a technical leader with 12 years of experience building large-scale data and developer platforms, currently focused on developer experience at xAI after leading data platform and devtools teams at Avride. He designs scalable CI/CD, build systems and cloud infrastructure that power ML and autonomous systems, having overseen pipelines that handle hundreds of terabytes daily and multi-region AWS-like deployments. Skilled across Python, C++, Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, Iceberg and ClickHouse, he blends low-level performance engineering with infrastructure-as-code and observability practices. Pavel has a strong track record of boosting reliability and developer productivity—shipping a company-wide CI/CD for ~200 engineers and improving payment platform availability to 99.9%—and mentors teams in DevOps best practices. He holds degrees from MIPT and Yandex School of Data Analysis, and brings a habit of turning complex data workflows into pragmatic, cost-efficient systems.
12 years of coding experience
International BaccalaureateMaster's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)Big Data, Big Data at Yandex School of Data Analysis
Russian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (1)
python4
Github contributions (5)
Draif/nlp-mipt-2017
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
AnnaSavinova/fizteh-java-2013
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:59 commits in 27 days
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