Pavel Zaytsev
Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Zaytsev is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance backend, data, and distributed systems using Scala, Java, and Python. Based in Santa Monica, he has driven robust state transfer, clustering, and observability improvements for CorfuDB at VMware and now contributes at Broadcom, blending functional programming idioms with cloud-native, serverless, and IaC practices. He has engineered end-to-end CD pipelines, distributed task graphs, and cache strategies at Yummly and designed microservices and large-scale data pipelines that processed 100+ TB in under 10 minutes at NinthDecimal. An active contributor to CorfuDB, Pavel has deep hands-on experience with cluster consistency, memory/metric fixes, and diagnostic tooling that reveal non-obvious system behaviors. He combines production-grade engineering with an eye for deterministic, testable architectures and pragmatic automation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaAssociate of Science (A.S.) Physics and Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Physics and Computer Science at Foothill College
English, Russian
Github Skills (19)
consensus10
back-end-development10
distributed-systems10
java10
javas10
data-structure9
algorithm9
algorithms9
databases9
database9
datastructures-algorithms9
data-structures9
docker8
database-administration8
dockers8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CorfuDB/CorfuDB
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A cluster consistency platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:294 reviews, 239 commits, 102 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the cluster consistency platform. The commits indicate work on internal server components, including creating server images and refactoring cluster graph. The user also worked on state transfer processes, particularly focusing on restoration and merging of segments within the distributed database system. Furthermore, the user addressed several critical issues related to exceptions, metrics, and memory management.
nosqlconsensusstreamingdatastoredistributed-database
PavelZaytsev/sstable
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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