Summary
Pavel Parshikov is an engineering team lead based in Moscow with 14+ years designing and building high‑traffic web applications and over a decade of hands‑on backend expertise. He has progressed from PHP developer to senior engineer and now leads teams at Avito, bringing practical experience scaling systems that serve millions of users and optimize server footprint. Pavel combines academic rigor—holding a PhD and years as an associate professor with 20+ publications—with production engineering skills like sharded databases, CI/CD, caching strategies, and media processing pipelines. His background includes architecting a platform with 57M+ MAU and building custom tooling for monitoring, anti‑spam, and content processing, showing a mix of systems thinking and operational focus. Colleagues benefit from his track record of reducing infrastructure costs while launching new products and integrating complex third‑party ecosystems. Notably, he pairs research-led problem solving with day‑to‑day delivery, making him effective at both mentorship and hands‑on optimization.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science, 05.13.00 Computer science, computer engineering and control, PhD in Computer Science, 05.13.00 Computer science, computer engineering and control at Bryansk State Technical University (BSTU)
English, Russian