Pavlo Zahynailo
Principal Engineer at Rightfoot
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPavlo Zahynailo is a Principal Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building fintech and consumer-facing platforms, currently leading engineering at Rightfoot in San Francisco. As a founding engineer he architected payment and debt-reduction APIs, developer SDKs, and a self-service portal, combining backend microservices (Java, gRPC, Postgres) with modular Angular frontends. He has a consistent track record of shipping product-led improvements that drive growth and reliability—from boosting ordering and conversion metrics at Gorilla Delivery to hardening frontend security for enterprise clients. A mathematically trained problem-solver from Odessa, Pavlo brings both product-minded engineering and a practical full-stack toolkit, and he retains an entrepreneurial streak evident in early-stage platform building and developer experience work. He also flags his Ukrainian roots, grounding a global engineering perspective with resilience and adaptability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Mathematics at Odessa National 'I.I. Mecnikov' UniversityMathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Science at Richelieu Lyceum
English, Russian, Ukrainian
Github Skills (12)
api4
angular-component4
plaid3
angular-universal3
client-library2
api-client2
angular2
typescript2
protractor2
json-api2
json2
angular-cli1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pzahynailo/angular-ngrx-operation-client-test-task
Apr 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
pzahynailo/delivery-app-test-task
Feb 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
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