Pavel Pristupa
Chief Technology Officer at Donkit
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Pristupa is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Belgrade with over 15 years of software engineering experience and a decade of professional industry roles. He combines deep academic grounding—MS and ongoing PhD work in Computer Science from Tomsk State University—with hands-on delivery in engineering and architecture across startups and established companies. Pavel progressed from software engineer roles at ZOOM and QuantumSoft to principal engineering at SupplyShift (a Sphera company) and now leads technology strategy and execution as CTO at Donkit. He excels at bridging research-grade rigor with practical product engineering, particularly in long-lived systems and team scaling. Fluent in both Russian and Serbian tech ecosystems, he brings cross-border perspective and academic curiosity to commercial software challenges. A detail that sets him apart is the simultaneous pursuit of doctoral research while driving product and engineering at senior leadership level.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Tomsk State UniversityRadio Engineering and Cybernetics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Radio Engineering and Cybernetics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English, Chinese, Serbian
Github Skills (52)
rest-framework10
django-rest10
spring-mvc10
alembic10
sqlalchemy10
spring-boot10
java9
spring9
python9
django9
coreapi9
django-rest-swagger9
documentation-generator9
django-rest-framework9
rest-api9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
WinterFramework/winter
Jan 2019 - Dec 2022
Web Framework with focus on python typing, dataclasses and modular design
Contributions:39 releases, 75 reviews, 282 commits in 3 years 11 months
spring-bootspring-frameworkpythonspring-mvcspring
pristupa/ddd
Jan 2019 - May 2020
Domain-Driven Design framework for Python
Contributions:39 commits, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythondddframeworkdesign-frameworkcqrs
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