Pavel Kotlyar
Staff Engineer at Sweat
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolPavel Kotlyar is a Staff Engineer based on the Gold Coast with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years coding across web and backend systems. He blends hands-on full‑stack Ruby on Rails expertise with modern backend architecture design in Go and GraphQL, currently rebuilding Sweat’s backend to support mobile apps at scale. Pavel has led engineering teams and startups, combining product-oriented management (introducing Stimulus/Hotwire, ViewComponents and disciplined planning) with deep implementation work across payments, fraud prevention, gRPC/GraphQL migrations and microservices. He also co‑founds an indie game studio and codes games by night, reflecting a creative edge that informs his pragmatic engineering. A long history of rewrites and platform migrations shows he excels at rearchitecting legacy systems into testable, maintainable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Sevastopol State Technical University
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (144)
circleci10
game-development10
godot10
game-engine10
unify10
buffalo10
open-source10
addon10
codegen9
webstorm9
golang9
gdscript9
rapid9
artemis9
graphql-tools9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
paxer/maze_generator
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:46 commits in 1 month
paxer/ColorSwitch
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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