Pavel Kolesnikov
Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Kolesnikov is a seasoned data engineer with 16 years of experience building and shaping data platforms and product strategies, currently driving data engineering at Meta from San Francisco. He blends deep technical delivery—rooted in early software and functional architecture at HP—with product and solution leadership roles at GoodData and Sigma, where he moved between hands-on engineering and customer-facing product management. His career demonstrates a rare combination of business-facing communication and technical rigor, enabling him to translate complex analytics requirements into scalable platform designs. Pavel’s background includes leading solution architecture, sales engineering enablement, and director-level product work, reflecting an ability to influence both engineering roadmaps and go-to-market outcomes. He holds an MSc from the University of Liverpool and brings a hobbyist’s curiosity that fuels continuous learning and pragmatic innovation.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at University of LiverpoolCharles University
German, Russian, Czech, English
Stackoverflow
119reputation
15kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (50)
simplify10
parser10
rails10
csv-parser10
ruby10
hanami10
stream10
api10
command-line-utility10
csv-parsing10
gooddata10
csv10
react10
csv-reader10
zero-configuration9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
koles/ya-csv
Jul 2010 - Apr 2020
CSV parser/writer for Node.js
Contributions:88 commits, 12 PRs, 19 pushes in 9 years 10 months
csvcsv-readernode-jsnodejsstream
gooddata/gooddata-agent
May 2017 - Mar 2020
A simple command line tool for uploading data to GoodData's WebDAV storage
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
command-line-toolwebdavgooddatastorageuploading
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