Summary
Pavel Pivovarov is a Principal Engineer in Cloud Foundation with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure platforms, now based in Sydney. He has led teams of a dozen engineers, mentored rising talent, and driven major initiatives like a 1,200+ repository GitHub migration and adoption of locally run GenAI with a focus on security. His background spans hands-on systems engineering and automation—from KVM/Proxmox and Puppet/Chef to Kubernetes, GitOps and AWS cloud architecture—giving him rare fluency across ops, platform design and developer experience. Pavel blends technical rigor with people leadership, creating engineering guidelines and data-driven performance frameworks that became team standards. He often bridges deep operational fixes with strategic platform decisions, and has a track record of turning legacy infrastructures into scalable, documented systems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, B, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, B at Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University
Russian, English