Pavel Popov
Principal Engineer at Vio.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Popov is a Principal Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building data-intensive systems and end-to-end product delivery at Vio.com. He blends deep data engineering and architecture expertise—Snowflake, SQL, Scala/Spark, Kafka—with modern backend development in Go, Python, and extensive AWS, driving search and analytics improvements in production. His background spans petabyte-scale offline analytics, ETL and DWH leadership in finance, and early research training (PhD-level physics) that informs a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to systems. A hands-on team player and communicator, he moves quickly between low-level performance tuning and high-level architecture while exploring niche interests like Emacs and Clojure that influence his tooling and developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
English
Github Skills (165)
python10
dependency-resolution10
scheduled-tasks10
job-scheduler10
git-status10
rabbitmq10
message-passing10
task-scheduler10
golang10
batch10
job-queue10
queue10
luigi10
colemak10
lag10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FindHotel/terraform-provider-snowflake
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Terraform provider for managing Snowflake accounts
Contributions:2 releases, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 11 months
providersnowflakeaccountsterraformterraform-provider
FindHotel/analytics-go
Oct 2018 - Jan 2025
The hassle-free way to integrate analytics into any Go application. Maintainer - @velppa
Contributions:10 releases, 15 reviews, 8 PRs in 6 years 5 months
golanganalyticsmaintainergo-applicationintegrate
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