Pavel Popov
Chief Technology Officer at Vality
Bangkok, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Popov is a seasoned CTO and software engineer with 11 years of experience leading and scaling payment and fintech platforms from the trenches to Kubernetes-powered cloud deployments. Based in Bangkok, he has managed engineering organizations of 30–50 people across Erlang, Java, DevOps, frontend and security, driving architectural decisions that improved availability, SLA performance and business predictability. He built core payment processing systems, introduced Kafka and ClickHouse for analytics, and led anti-fraud and onboarding initiatives that materially increased product robustness. Known as a pragmatic troubleshooter and “chief troubleshooting officer,” he blends hands-on implementation with strategic planning to align technical roadmaps to business outcomes. An adaptive digital nomad, he stays current with emerging tech and repeatedly translates complex distributed-system challenges into reliable, production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Education, Information Technology, Diploma of Education, Information Technology at ESSTU
Github Skills (196)
testing10
windows10
actionscript10
http10
databases10
jdownloader10
wireguard10
tailscale10
junit10
docker-container10
network-server10
integration-testing10
client-library10
cdr10
vpn10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
tolkonepiu/keencli
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Bash script to control Keenetic routers via HTTP API
Contributions:1 release, 33 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 1 month
bash-scriptkeenetickeenetic-routerszyxelzyxel-keenetic
rbkmoney/magista
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
RBKmoney Reporting Service
Contributions:16 reviews, 168 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years 6 months
query-dslreporting-servicereportingthrift
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