Pavel Zastavnitskiy is an engineering director based in Amsterdam with nine years of experience turning business problems into production-grade web platforms and APIs. He combines deep hands-on skills across JavaScript/Node.js/React and backend languages like Python, Ruby and PHP with a strong focus on CI/CD, test automation and performance optimization. Pavel progressed from front-end roles at Booking.com to senior engineering at Datadog and now leads distributed teams remotely, mentoring engineers and shaping hiring and growth practices. He has practical systems-design experience including CDN and GraphQL architectures and has contributed to the webpack project by improving AMD/CommonJS module resolution. Known for pairing technical depth with people development, he consistently moves teams from prototypes to reliable, high-performance delivery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Chelyabinsk State University
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on debugging and improving the AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) module resolving process within the webpack bundler. Their contributions involved fixing issues related to local CommonJS module wrapping, and how modules with exports are handled. The user's work also included code modifications to handle module definitions and dependencies. Furthermore, they enhanced the codebase through style changes and by stringifying module names.
Save application state in the querystring. Restore it when page is refreshed.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 10 months
reactstate-managementquerystringrestoreredux
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Pavel Zastavnitskiy - Engineering Director at Remote