Pavel Shilovsky
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Shilovsky is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years specializing in distributed storage systems and network file protocols, currently contributing to Azure Storage at Microsoft. He is a core contributor to the Linux SMB3 (CIFS) file system and long-time maintainer of the CIFS-Utils project, with a career thread spanning Azure Files, cloud object storage, and file data platforms at major cloud providers. Pavel’s work includes deep kernel-level protocol design and implementation—continuing contributions that began with multiple Google Summer of Code projects improving SMB2/SMB3 support. He holds an MS and PhD-level background in physics and mathematics, bringing rigorous analytical skills to large-scale storage reliability and performance problems. Known for bridging open source and enterprise production systems, he often operates at the intersection of protocol standards, kernel internals, and cloud storage services. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines long-term stewardship of critical open-source tooling with hands-on engineering across top cloud platforms.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics and Mathematics, PhD Physics and Mathematics at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky
Russian, English
Github Skills (9)
c1710
filesystem10
c1110
linux-kernel10
networking9
implement9
protocols9
error-handling8
memory-management8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
piastry/cifs-utils
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 PRs, 110 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
sambaversion-controlsubversionmercurialgit-utils
piastry/linux
Oct 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:120 pushes, 55 branches in 3 years 1 month
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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