Pavlo Shushkov is an Engineering Manager and seasoned Python software engineer with eight years of experience building and leading teams in fintech, SaaS, and high-load neobank environments. Based in Warsaw, he progressed from hands-on backend and full-stack development to technical leadership roles, mentoring juniors and shaping delivery as a team lead and lecturer. He has practical expertise in monolith-to-microservice architectures, database integrations and query handlers—evidenced by contributions to the MindsDB open-source project touching Couchbase, BigQuery, Airtable and Access connectors. At PIN-UP GLOBAL and Yalantis he combined delivery ownership with code quality improvements and CI/test automation, balancing release management with developer enablement. Known for cleaning up and hardening codebases (flake8-driven refactors) he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and incremental improvement. Fluent in translating product requirements into reliable production systems, he pairs technical depth with a talent for growing engineering capability.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at State University of Telecommunications
Sociology, Sociology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
AI's query engine - Platform for building AI that can learn and answer questions over large scale federated data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 15 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Pavlo primarily contributed to the MindsDB repository by cleaning up code using flake8, addressing style issues across multiple files. They also made changes to handler files related to Couchbase, BigQuery, Airtable, and Access databases, indicating involvement in database integration and potentially query optimization. Furthermore, the user merged branches, suggesting responsibilities in managing code integration and potentially release management.
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Pavlo Shushkov - Engineering Manager at PIN-UP GLOBAL