Pavel Odintsov
Co-Founder at FastNetMon Community
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPavel Odintsov is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 14+ years focused on networking, DDoS protection and cloud infrastructure, now co-founder of FastNetMon based in London. He has led technical teams at Cloudflare and built and operated network-facing products at registrars, hosting providers and an internet exchange, giving him end-to-end industry insight from packets to peering. As technical lead of the open-source FastNetMon project he architects high-performance DDoS telemetry and mitigation (sFlow/NetFlow/IPFIX, BGP FlowSpec) and has contributed low-level packet parsing, sFlow stability fixes and GoBGP integrations. He combines hands-on backend systems work with product leadership, shipping affordable, production-ready mitigation for diverse networks. A subtle strength: he bridges C/C++ and Go ecosystems to solve real-time networking problems, making deep-tech tooling accessible to operators.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor (Honours) degree Automated control and data processing systems., Bachelor (Honours) degree Automated control and data processing systems. at Samara State Aerospace UniversityFirst education, First education at Samara school 131
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Github Skills (19)
c-language10
network-programming10
go10
bgp10
cprogramming-language10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
testing9
libbpf9
python9
ip9
lto6
netflow6
cmake6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
FastNetMon - very fast DDoS sensor with sFlow/Netflow/IPFIX/SPAN support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 3056 commits, 220 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pavel implemented fixes for type errors and improved the codebase by adding correct hashing to `std::unordered_map` for nDPI. The user also contributed to the creation of a PCAP library, implementing functionality for parsing packets and a reader. In addition to these, the user was involved in debugging and improving the sFlow plugin logic and overall system stability.
servicenowddos-sensorspansensorddos-monitor
osrg/gobgp
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
BGP implemented in the Go Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 219 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pavel contributed significantly to enhancing the GoBGP project's C++ client library, enabling functionalities for IPv4 unicast and Flow Spec. The user implemented gRPC API client examples and synchronized these examples with recent changes in the gRPC and GoBGP API. Furthermore, the user added support for local ASN and local BGP peering address information within the gobgp neighbor command and addressed Python 3.10 compatibility issues in the testing framework.
golangprogramming-languagebgpsdn
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