Summary
Pavel Nabutovsky is a Director of Platform and seasoned ICT4D engineer with 12 years of experience designing and scaling secure, cloud-native systems for humanitarian and social-impact contexts. He led architecture and global technical delivery for the UNICEF-backed Primero child protection IMS, running field deployments across Kenya, Jordan, Sierra Leone, Somalia and more, and later translated that experience into product leadership at Salus CM. Pavel blends hands-on software craftsmanship with security and data protection governance, having authored company-wide policies and built CI/CD-backed SaaS architectures on Azure and Kubernetes to handle sensitive, high-variability workloads. His work bridges research and practice—he has investigated usable cybersecurity, data localization, and identity for humanitarian partners at Tufts—so he pairs technical depth with operational empathy for low-resource field environments. Colleagues rely on him to both write production code and to shape strategic roadmaps that make complex systems usable and resilient in the toughest conditions.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Humanitarian Response Intensive Course, Humanitarian Response Intensive Course at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Public Policy, Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Public Policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Russian, English, French