Summary
Pavel Shcherbinin is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with two decades in software development and over a decade in senior leadership, currently leading technology at Yandex from Belgrade. He has repeatedly scaled teams and platforms—growing engineering organizations from dozens to hundreds and driving migrations to cloud architectures that improved scalability and efficiency by measurable margins. His track record spans high-throughput distributed systems, low-latency protocols, and building resilient services (99.99% stability at TripleTen, thousands TPS at Insolar), coupled with strong product and business alignment. Pavel is a hands-on change agent who codified practices like DDD, event sourcing, zero-bug policies, and CI/CD to enable daily releases and multiply team productivity. He pairs engineering rigor with people development, running training programs and hiring processes that consistently raise team capability. Fluent in transforming legacy stacks into automated, observable platforms, he blends operational discipline with a pragmatic focus on delivery and quality.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
"MATI" - Moscow State Aviation Technological University
Digital MBA Business Administration and Management Digital, Digital MBA Business Administration and Management Digital at Mail.ru Group
English, Russian