Pavel
Istomin

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Hello! I’m a Software Engineer with expertise in Go, Java and Kotlin. I enjoy building high-performance, scalable solutions and mentoring others in their growth.

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About Me

My story

I'm a Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience specializing in Go, Java, Kotlin, and Python. Proven expertise in designing and developing high-performance, scalable software solutions for fintech and telecommunications domains. Strong advocate for clean, maintainable code with a focus on impeccable code style and naming conventions. Mentored junior colleagues and guided interns through their transition into full-time specialist roles. Currently enhancing expertise in Go and scalable system design through a fintech side project, combining technical skills with a passion for finance.

Age: 30
Residence: Croatia
Address: Zagreb
E-mail: pavel@istomin.tech

Experience

Working with

2022-Present

Senior Software Engineer
Infobip

This role opened up the opportunity to begin mentoring newer members of the team. Within the AI department, I funneled my efforts into building and scaling services that incorporated machine learning models and large language models. This included developing AI-driven applications for real-time data processing, optimizing APIs for business tasks, and integrating LLMs into conversational AI services, ensuring scalable AI services with strong deployment pipelines.

2019-2022

Software Engineer
Infobip

I contributed to a post-analytic Fraud Detection system and its evolution to microservices, a Data Catalog project with graph databases, and DataHub for data governance. I helped rearchitect a real-time URL Analysis system with Kotlin and Redis, improving performance by 3x, and worked on a real-time Spam Detection System using microservices.

2017-2019

Junior Software Engineer
DxFeed

I was responsible for researching the company's data structures and values, selecting data storage solutions, designing and developing Data Warehouse architecture with Cassandra, developing ETL processes using Java and Spark, and performing ad-hoc data extractions, enrichments, and transformations.

2016-2016

DevOps
Devexperts

In my role, I was responsible for administering Java applications on Linux, managing databases (primarily PostgreSQL), developing workflow automation applications using Java, communicating with B2B clients, monitoring systems, and investigating and resolving technical issues.