Pavel Ponomarev
Senior R&D Engineer At MV Drives at ABB
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Ponomarev is a Senior R&D Engineer with over 15 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning product ownership, embedded software, DevOps, and academic research in electrical machines and drives. At ABB he leads platform improvements for medium-voltage drives, combining hands-on embedded C++/Python development with system-level design and performance optimization down to ARM assembly. He holds a Doctor of Science in Electrical Machines and Drives and has led large EU-funded projects (coordinating the 9.5–10 M€ DRIVEMODE consortium), bridging research, industry partners, and product delivery. Pavel’s technical breadth includes FEM and CFD modelling, multi-objective evolutionary optimization on HPC clusters, EMT power models, and GUI-enabled transit simulations for electric buses. An active open-source contributor to ElmerFEM (notably improving PF3 mesh import and core code quality), he enjoys design-hacking and creating delightful scientific visualizations that make complex simulations accessible. Colleagues value his multi-angle critical thinking and ability to turn deep technical expertise into pragmatic engineering outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"Doctor of Science (Tech.), Electrical Machines and Drives, Doctor of Science (Tech.), Electrical Machines and Drives at Lappeenranta University of TechnologySaint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
English, Russian, Finnish
Github Skills (3)
c1710
c1110
finite-element-analysis10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ElmerCSC/elmerfem
Nov 2015 - Aug 2017
Official git repository of Elmer FEM software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the ElmerGrid component, specifically adding and debugging the import functionality for the Cedrat Flux 3D mesh (PF3) format. Their work involved modifying `femfilein.c` and `fempre.c` to correctly parse and load the PF3 mesh data, including element type mapping and node reordering. Furthermore, they also worked on cleaning up the code and making general improvements to the codebase.
git-repositoryelectromagneticsmpifemacoustics
pavelponomarev/elmerfem
Nov 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
elmergit-repositoryfem
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