Summary
Pavel Sokolov is a backend-first full stack developer with 13 years of experience building and owning production systems across fintech and adtech, currently working at Yazen Health in Stockholm. He designs, implements and maintains high-load distributed services and integrations, with hands-on responsibility for logs, metrics, CI/CD and incident resolution that keep customer-facing products stable and reliable. Pavel moves fluidly between Python, PHP and Java stacks and has led end-to-end projects from architecture to UX and stakeholder alignment, including a core lending platform serving 30k+ customers. Known as a pragmatic “Swiss army knife,” he combines deep technical craft with a habit of asking curious questions to surface better product outcomes. His background in academia and enterprise projects gives him a strong appreciation for UX, testing and long-term maintainability beyond just delivering features.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Specialist, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering at Saint Petersburg State University
M.Sc., Information Systems, Management, M.Sc., Information Systems, Management at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Russian, English, Swedish