Pavel Iakovenko
SDE2 at Microsoft
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Iakovenko is an experienced SDE2 based in Raleigh with 11 years in software engineering and a longer career dating back to the late 1990s, currently contributing to Bing at Microsoft. He brings deep systems and tooling experience spanning test frameworks, compilers and runtimes from his work at ISPRAS and earlier database and analytics engineering. Pavel has hands-on DevOps and automation chops—evidenced by contributions to GitHub Actions runner-images where he improved build scripts, diagnostics and installer reliability. Comfortable leading small teams, he has delivered integrations with legacy engineering tools and complex protocol test adapters. His background blends low-level C/C++ system work, tooling for TTCN-3 test automation, and practical database optimization, giving him a rare cross-cutting view of infrastructure, developer tooling, and product-quality validation. Trained with a Master’s in Computer Science from Lomonosov MSU, he favors pragmatic, automation-first solutions that reduce toil and surface hard-to-diagnose production issues.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Github Skills (13)
sh10
automation10
github-ci10
script10
automations10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
scripting10
cicd10
macos9
bash9
powershell8
chrome6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
actions/runner-images
Jan 2024 - Oct 2025
GitHub Actions runner images
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Pavel contributed to the `actions/runner-images` repository by modifying and improving the build scripts for GitHub Actions runner images. Their work included adding diagnostic information to the PowerShell installation script. They also addressed issues related to downloading actions/cache and fixing a Chrome installer script. The commits indicate a focus on automation and the setup/configuration of environments within the context of GitHub Actions.
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paveliak/runner
Aug 2022 - Apr 2026
The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:
Contributions:36 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 9 months
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