Pavel Savchenko
Staff Software Engineer at Deel IT (Previously Hofy)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPavel Savchenko is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 14 years of professional experience and a 10+ year focus on scaling cloud-native SaaS platforms using Python and Go. Currently at Hofy (Deel IT), he shapes device management infrastructure and previously led platform and migration efforts at Zoa and Bulb, delivering cost savings and high-impact operational resilience during critical periods. He’s strong in infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD and Terraform, and has bootstrapped platform teams to let product engineers move faster. An active open-source contributor, Pavel has improved notable Django ecosystem projects and tools like GitSavvy and Django REST Framework, and authored django-advanced-filters. He combines technical leadership—hiring and mentoring at scale—with hands-on delivery, documentation workshops (Diátaxis), and community building as co-organizer of PyMalta. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns complex architecture decisions into measurable business value.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated; Specialty computer sciences, Graduated; Specialty computer sciences at Ironi Daled High-School
English, Hebrew, Russian, Romanian
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Github Skills (48)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
git10
middleware10
pytest10
admin10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
testing10
sublime-text10
api10
github-api10
filter10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
modlinltd/django-advanced-filters
Nov 2013 - Nov 2022
Add advanced filtering abilities to Django admin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 14 reviews, 222 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on developing core features for the Django-based advanced filters application. They implemented the basic model, forms, and admin mixins, including tests and requirements for the Django admin features. The changes involved modifications to forms, templates, and admin configuration files to enhance the filtering capabilities of the Django admin interface. They also contributed to static assets such as css and javascript.
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timbrel/GitSavvy
May 2015 - Mar 2020
Full git and GitHub integration with Sublime Text
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 116 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to enhancing GitSavvy's functionality, focusing on features related to Git and GitHub integration within Sublime Text. They implemented features such as git-flow commands, a standalone cherry-pick command, and the ability to create a GitHub fork. Furthermore, they addressed several bugs, including those related to displaying unmerged conflicts, handling Unicode errors, and improving environment variable configurations. The user's work also includes improvements to the user interface of GitSavvy by refactoring and updating several panels.
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