Pavel Sokolov
CEO at Tvip LLC
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Sokolov is a seasoned technology executive and founder with 11+ years of hands-on engineering and leadership experience, currently serving as CEO of Tvip LLC in St. Petersburg. He combines deep embedded and IoT expertise—evidenced by substantive contributions to prominent open-source Zigbee projects like zigbee2mqtt and zigbee-herdsman—with practical build and release automation work on nanopb and PlatformIO. Pavel’s background spans technical director and CEO roles since 2000, giving him rare fluency across product engineering, operations and company leadership. Trained as a master in CAD from LETI, he brings a systems-level view to hardware-software integrations and often focuses on making complex IoT device support and build pipelines reliable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
Степень магистра, САПР, Степень магистра, САПР at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Электротехнический Университет «ЛЭТИ»
Github Skills (36)
platformio10
network-configuration10
javascript10
system-configuration10
tuya10
protocol-buffers10
mqtt10
embedded-language10
c1110
mqttnet10
c1710
cl10
iot10
device-driver10
sys10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Koenkk/zigbee-herdsman
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
A Node.js Zigbee library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the `zigbee-herdsman` library by adding support for various HEIMAN smart home devices, including alarm remotes, air quality monitors, and smart IR remotes. They extended the library's capabilities by incorporating HEIMAN-specific clusters and commands. Furthermore, the user implemented Tuya-specific ZCL command refactoring to address issues and incorporate new functionality, such as OTA updates. These changes involved modifications to cluster definitions, event handling, and the underlying communication protocol, demonstrating a strong understanding of Zigbee and ZCL protocols.
node-rednode-jsgoogle-homezigbeenodered
nanopb/nanopb
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Protocol Buffers with small code size
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 45 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Pavel focused on enhancing the build and configuration process for the nanopb project, particularly within the context of PlatformIO. Their contributions included implementing PlatformIO generator support, adding dependencies for protobuf and gRPC, and fixing ESP-IDF generation issues. The user also made improvements to the generator's error handling and fixed a config parser warning, indicating a focus on automation and build system optimization.
code-sizenanopbprotocol-buffersprotobufgrpc
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