Pavel Solodovnikov
Senior Software Engineer at Querify Labs
Russia
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Top SchoolPavel Solodovnikov is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building robust systems across companies like Querify Labs, ScyllaDB, and ООО Компания Тензор. He combines deep applied-mathematics training with hands-on backend development, contributing to performance and code-quality improvements in large C++ codebases such as the upstream CMake repository. Pavel has a track record of pragmatic engineering: refactoring types to std::string consistency, adding const-reference qualifications, and streamlining generators and commands to improve maintainability and efficiency. Based in Russia, he excels at stabilizing complex build and storage systems and mentoring teams through technical debt reduction. Colleagues know him for quiet, steady improvements that compound over time and for preferring sustainable, well-documented changes over flashy rewrites.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Applied Mathematics, Specialist, Applied Mathematics at Yaroslavl Demidov State University
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (9)
maintainability10
build-system10
cmake10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
optimization9
performance-optimization9
optmization9
optimisation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/CMake
May 2017 - Jan 2018
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Pavel contributed to the CMake build system by making changes to the codebase, including replacing `std::basic_string<char>` with `std::string` for consistency and adding const-reference qualifications to improve code quality. They also modified commands and generators to improve efficiency. These changes indicate a focus on improving the codebase, and maintaining quality.
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ManManson/warzone2100
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
Contributions:322 pushes, 140 branches in 1 year 4 months
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