Summary
Pavel Yushchenko is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 12+ years of hands-on experience building high-performance trading and fintech platforms across Java/Kotlin/Scala, C++, Python and blockchain stacks. He has repeatedly led architecture rewrites and scaled mission-critical systems—reducing costs and DB load, improving SLA and delivering new financial instruments and compliance-ready platforms. Pavel combines deep low-latency engineering (matching engines, fixed-decimal C++ math libraries) with cloud-native ops (Kubernetes, GCP, AWS) and hiring/operational leadership to turn outsourced teams into on-site engineering organizations. Based in Belgrade, he currently leads FinHarbor and heads fintech engineering at Broxus/Pi Union, focusing on unified architectures for AML/CTF-compliant fiat and crypto flows. Beyond product work he has a background in security audits and running summer informatics programs, showing a mix of technical rigor and community mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian, English, Ukrainian