Pavel Penev
Performance Architect at HelpMeSee
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Penev is a Performance Architect with 13 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems and diagnosing problems others avoid. He blends a physics-born curiosity with deep software craftsmanship, having improved type safety, runtime validation, and cross-service data aggregation at Google to cut bug mitigation from weeks to days and reduce legal risk. Pavel’s background spans systems integration, large-scale data handling, and developer productivity—from reverse-engineering legacy code to shipping deployable Debian packages that slashed deployment time. An active contributor to the CadQuery CAD framework, he has strengthened B-spline support and test/type quality for a widely used Python parametric CAD project. Based in New York, he seeks elegant, future-friendly solutions and enjoys untangling the “magic” behind complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Computer Science, Physics, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Bulgarian, Russian, German, Bulgarian, English, Russian, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
params10
parameterized10
para10
python10
parametric10
cad10
modeling9
3d9
testing8
linux6
database6
mysql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CadQuery/cadquery
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
A python parametric CAD scripting framework based on OCCT
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 26 days
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the `cadquery/cadquery` repository by implementing new features and improving existing functionalities related to the B-spline curve creation and manipulation within the CAD framework. Their work included adding support for specifying tangents, parameters, and tolerance values for spline interpolation, enhancing the flexibility of the `Workplane.spline()` method. The user also focused on code formatting and type hinting to improve code quality and maintainability, along with improvements in unit tests.
3d-modelsscriptingpythoncadopencascade
pavpen/NationBuilderAPI
Sep 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 93 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 7 months
apidotnetc-sharpcsharpweb-api
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