Pavel Novitskiy
Principal Software Engineer at ClickHouse
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Novitskiy is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Netherlands with 13 years of experience designing and operating high‑scale infrastructure and web services. He has deep expertise in UNIX-like systems, building distributed monitoring for 2000+ servers, and developing high‑load web stacks using nginx + Lua and uWSGI/gunicorn ecosystems. Pavel combines strong hands‑on ops skills—PostgreSQL HA clusters, Bacula backups, Chef automation, Redis/Mongo/memcached—with hardware and networking experience across Dell/HP/Cisco environments. His career includes progressive SRE and engineering roles at ClickHouse, Yandex and VK, where he focused on reliability, automation, and performance at internet scale. Notably, he’s skilled at integrating monitoring and configuration from scratch and translating operational needs into robust automation and scripts. Fluent in shell and Ruby scripting with working knowledge of Python, Lua and regex, he excels at closing the gap between development and production.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (42)
bigquery10
mysql10
big-data10
analytics10
olap10
mpp10
sql10
ai10
clickhouse-client10
embedded10
rust10
cpp10
cloud-native10
dbms10
clickhouse10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
presto53/blocker
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:57 commits in 9 days
presto53/ruby-dhcpd
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
Contributions:21 commits in 8 days
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