Pavlo Navalnyi is a Front-end Engineering Director with 11 years of professional experience and a 15+-year personal history in web development, having progressed through every major front-end paradigm from HTML tables and jQuery to Angular and React. He currently leads a 150+ person front-end department across four countries at Avenga, having scaled a small team into a global competency of 300+ engineers through hiring, standardized processes, and people-first culture building. Pavlo blends hands-on technical judgment—architecture, tooling, and single-page app development—with strategic responsibilities including M&A, budgeting, and pre-sales. He is passionate about mentorship and community: he runs knowledge-sharing programs and fosters environments where engineers actively support and grow one another. Based in Ukraine, he pairs deep technical lineage with proven leadership in cross-border teams and organizational design. An early web tinkerer, he still values pragmatic tooling and developer experience as levers for large-scale engineering productivity.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Lviv Polytechnic National University
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, KS-11, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, KS-11 at Khmelnitsky Polytechnic Collage
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Pavlo Navalnyi - Front-end Engineering Director at Avenga