Pavel Paulau
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPavel Paulau is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14+ years of experience designing and optimizing high-performance, large-scale systems. At Meta since 2018, he leads engineering efforts that demand deep systems knowledge, drawing on prior principal and senior roles at Couchbase and Cryptography Research. His background in quantum information systems (M.S./B.S.) informs a methodical, research-driven approach to problem solving and performance tuning. Pavel has a strong track record in performance engineering and distributed databases, with experience shipping production-ready, low-latency infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for architecture-level decisions and for mentoring engineers across the stack. He combines academic rigor with practical delivery, often surfacing subtle optimizations that materially improve system throughput and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. & B.S. Quantum Information Systems, M.S. & B.S. Quantum Information Systems at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
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Github Skills (103)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pavel-paulau/rollercoaster
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 37 pushes in 2 months
pavel-paulau/moveit
Feb 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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