Ihor Pavlenko

Leading engineering, architecture, and delivery for Sense Education, an AI-driven SaaS platform that automates grading and feedback for open-response assignments in higher education.

- Defined architecture and technical strategy for AI grading and instant feedback systems, leveraging LLM-based approaches and modern NLP frameworks
- Built and scaled the end-to-end AI pipeline for semantic and ru

Led delivery and engineering operations across multiple SaaS product teams in a multi-project environment, focusing on scaling execution, improving predictability, and aligning engineering with business outcomes.

- Built and scaled engineering teams and delivery structures across multiple projects
- Established delivery governance, planning cadence, and execution frameworks
- Improved release pre

Led engineering for CleanConnect.ai — an AI-powered platform for energy analytics, methane detection, and ESG reporting, built as a multi-tenant SaaS solution.

- Led cross-functional engineering teams across backend, data, AI/ML, and platform components
- Scaled multi-tenant architecture supporting emissions data ingestion, ML pipelines, and enterprise onboarding
- Established engineering practic

Led engineering teams and technical execution across product initiatives, focusing on team scaling, architecture alignment, and delivery performance.

- Built and led engineering teams, defining structure, ownership, and processes
- Drove architecture decisions and technical direction across projects
- Improved delivery execution and engineering practices
- Worked closely with stakeholders to ali

Secure MSP Center (MSSP)

Platform for managed security providers to operate multi-tenant security services across enterprise customers.

- Led engineering teams delivering a multi-tenant SaaS platform for security operations
- Improved delivery predictability and execution through structured planning and governance
- Aligned engineering with product and business priorities across distributed t

Contributed to architecture and technical leadership, focusing on software design patterns and pre-sales activities.

Cisco Telemetry Broker (CTB)

High-throughput platform for filtering, aggregating, and routing network telemetry data across hybrid infrastructures.

- Defined architecture for large-scale telemetry pipelines processing high-volume network data
- Designed distributed systems for scalability, reliability, and performance
- Enabled use cases in observability, security analytics, and network visibili

Contributed to software architecture and design, focusing on UML, SOLID, and design patterns.

Worked as Teach lead at SoftServe.

Led technical teams and contributed to project delivery, test automation, and pre-sales activities.

Telemetry & Security Analytics Systems

- Led development teams working on telemetry and data processing systems
- Coordinated cross-team delivery in distributed environments
- Improved system performance, stability, and maintainability

Contributed to software development with a focus on micro frontends, test automation, and project delivery.

Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch)

Platform for advanced threat detection using behavioral analytics and network telemetry.

- Developed backend services for large-scale network security platform
- Increased test coverage from 0% to 95%, significantly reducing regression issues
- Contributed to system design and platform evolution after Cisco acquisition

Tech / Domains: network security,

This part-time role focused on contributing to a product designed to help IT professionals efficiently discover, organize, and track TLS/SSL certificates, ensuring no certificate goes unnoticed or unmanaged.

Key Responsibilities:

- Developing clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
- Designing and implementing a component architecture for scalability and reusability.
- Creating a custom UI libr

Progressed from software engineering to architecture and technical leadership roles, contributing to development of enterprise applications in network management and data-driven systems.

- Designed and developed scalable application components and system architecture
- Led development efforts and contributed to key technical decisions
- Built and maintained systems handling real-time data and lar

As a Software Engineer, I contribute to a cloud-based Fair Market Value (FMV) solution to support the life sciences industry. The product leverages a proven methodology to assist in research, commercial, and compliance functions.

Key Responsibilities:

- Collaborating on the development of a robust FMV platform.
- Implementing user interfaces using Bootstrap and KendoUI for responsive and user-fr

Summary:
I was an employee of the university's IT department, focusing on developing and supporting software solutions for academic and administrative needs. The primary projects included tools for student results management, scheduling, and a corporate website for service promotion.


Test Result Manager
An offline frontend application designed for managing student results. The primary objective

Master of Engineering in Computer Systems and Networks from Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies.