Pavel Zbitskiy
Principal Software Engineer at Algorand
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Zbitskiy is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston with a decade-plus career building large-scale systems in Python and C++, and six years in senior engineering roles focused on distributed ledgers and enterprise search. At Algorand he contributes to core SDKs and protocol implementations—working on transaction group support, LogicSig features, and ledger robustness across JavaScript, Python, and Go repositories. He has repeatedly combined hands-on engineering with team building, having founded engineering labs and scaled teams of 20+ as a senior manager at Rocket and Applied Technologies. A co-founder of RaeNotes, Pavel brings product transition experience and a strong operational mindset for shipping market-ready software. His academic background in mathematics and early work on firmware and mainframe tooling underpin a rigorous approach to performance-sensitive, secure systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who still digs into unit tests and low-level refactors to keep complex systems maintainable.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics, 4.95, Master's degree, Mathematics, 4.95 at Chelyabinsk State UniversityComputer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at South Ural State University (SUSU)
Russian, English
Github Skills (23)
transaction10
transactional10
javascript10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
typescript10
algorand10
go10
sdk10
typescript-types10
blockchain10
typescripts10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
algorand/go-algorand
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Algorand's official implementation in Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3440 reviews, 207 commits, 1130 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core ledger implementation in Go, which included ensuring resource freeing, preventing double closing of queues, and closing ledgers in tests. They also made changes to transaction group handling, renaming a field to improve clarity. In addition, the user addressed build script issues, particularly related to S3 bucket usage and upload configuration.
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algorand/js-algorand-sdk
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
The official JavaScript SDK for Algorand.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 15 commits, 18 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to the core functionality of the JavaScript SDK for Algorand, focusing on transaction processing, logic signature support, and API integration. Their work involved implementing features like transaction group support, LogicSig functionality, and adding a new function to send raw transactions. The user also improved the codebase by implementing v2 models and creating unit tests.
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