Pavel Zinovkin
Senior Software Engineer at Step
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorPavel Zinovkin is a senior software engineer and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling web and backend systems, currently based in Fremont, California. Formerly CIO of Mail.Ru Group/VK and CTO of Brief, he has led engineering organizations, designed large-scale architectures, and overseen infrastructure, monitoring, automation, and CI/CD for consumer-facing products. His hands-on background spans high-throughput services (document thumbnailing serving ~25M requests/day), large MySQL optimizations, and distributed task processing with RabbitMQ. At Step he continues to apply product-focused engineering while hiring and mentoring teams, blending executive leadership with deep technical craftsmanship. Notably, he progressed from developer to C-suite at one of Eastern Europe’s largest tech companies, demonstrating rare continuity from code to strategy. He combines pragmatic system design with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade systems under high load.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, English
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Github Skills (67)
apachebench10
golang10
httpd10
django9
rest9
api9
programming-language9
exporter9
interpreter9
load-generator9
http9
monitor9
go9
compiler8
monitoring8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pzinovkin/emf
Aug 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 7 years 6 months
pzinovkin/mysqld_exporter
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Exporter for MySQL server metrics
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
exportermetrics-serverprometheus-exportermysqlprometheus
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