Yan Pashkovsky
Senior Software Engineer at BNP Paribas
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolYan Pashkovsky is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building low-latency market data platforms and backend services across finance, internet, and security domains. Based in Lisbon, he specializes in C++ while also working extensively with Java and Python, and has hands-on experience in DevOps, release management (including APAC coordination), and performance optimization. His contributions to the widely used Pandoc project show a talent for complex parsing and translating diverse document formats, reflecting attention to edge cases and robust lexer/parser design. Past roles include improving image search at Mail.Ru, optimizing Hadoop workflows, and developing high-load Linux network services and monitoring agents. Trained in computer security (Moscow Technical University), he blends systems-level rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, production-grade software. An open-source enthusiast, he maintains an active GitHub and continues to enjoy tackling tricky parsing and performance problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (Magister), Computer Security, Specialist (Magister), Computer Security at Moscow Technical University
Русский, Английский, Немецкий, Испанский, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
manpage10
text-parsing10
haskell10
parser-combinators10
regular-expression9
markdown-it8
markdown8
converter7
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jgm/pandoc
Feb 2018 - Nov 2018
Universal markup converter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 31 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yan contributed significantly to the development of a man page reader for the pandoc tool. They implemented a lexer and parser for man page syntax, including handling macros, escapes, and different formatting styles. Their work involved tokenizing man page content and translating it into Pandoc's internal representation for document conversion. The commits reflect a focus on parsing various man page elements, including lists, code blocks, and special characters.
pandocmarkup-converterpublishingpresentationcommonmark
Dekz120/server_eventloop
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:24 reviews, 109 comments, 2 issues in 2 months
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