Pavel Safronov
Software Engineer at MongoDB
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPavel Safronov is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building back-end systems and databases, currently working at MongoDB after recent roles at AWS and DoltHub. He has deep Go and database engineering expertise, evidenced by substantive contributions to notable open-source projects like dolt and go-mysql-server—adding MySQL-compatible date/time behavior, stored procedure validation, decimal literal support, and robust commit/amend handling. His career spans large cloud and database teams at Microsoft, Oracle, and Amazon, giving him a solid track record of shipping reliable, test-driven fixes and core functionality. Based in Redmond, he blends production engineering rigor with a hobbyist’s curiosity—he’s an avid hobby programmer and aspiring writer. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who focuses on correctness, edge-case validation, and improving developer-facing workflows. An underappreciated strength is his eye for comprehensive tests that prevent regressions in complex database behaviors.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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amazon-dynamodb
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Github Skills (28)
admin10
mysql10
database-administration10
data-versioning10
go10
sql10
golang10
version-control10
versioning10
relational-databases10
database-versioning9
amazon-web-services9
databases9
amazon-dynamodb9
database9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dolthub/dolt
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Dolt – Git for Data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:95 reviews, 36 commits, 60 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavel contributed to the Dolt project, a Git for Data database, by implementing and modifying core database functionalities. Their work included replacing incorrect characters, fixing issues related to the `dolt_commit` procedure and the `--amend` flag, and resolving a bug where the list of parents wasn't being used correctly. They also added tests related to the `dolt_commit` process, including tests for amending merge commits.
git-sqlversion-controlled-databasegit-databasedatabase-version-controldatabase
dolthub/go-mysql-server
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A MySQL-compatible relational database with a storage agnostic query engine. Implemented in pure Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:100 reviews, 33 commits, 46 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on enhancing the `go-mysql-server` project, a MySQL-compatible relational database implemented in Go. Their contributions included improvements to date and time functions to align with MySQL standards, and the addition of new test cases. Furthermore, they addressed stored procedure validation, improving error handling and ensuring procedures function correctly. They also implemented decimal literal support.
golangqueryrelationalquery-enginesql-server
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