Pavel Bastov
@pavelbastov
Backend engineer specializing in Kotlin microservices and GCP platform reliability.
What I'm looking for
I’m a backend engineer and technology leader with 15+ years building fintech SaaS platforms, with deep expertise in Kotlin/Spring Boot microservices on GCP/GKE. As Chief Technology Officer at Juakali, I took end-to-end ownership—from architecture and API design to deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
I architect distributed systems using Cloud Pub/Sub, OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs, and Redis caching, improving key operation performance by 5x–50x. I focus on reliability and automation—cutting incident resolution from several hours to under one hour, raising Pulumi-driven infrastructure automation from ~30% to ~90% coverage, and increasing release cadence from once every 3–4 months to once every 4–6 weeks.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Chief Technology Officer
Juakali
Mar 2021 - Present (5 years 3 months)
Owned Juakali’s fintech SaaS platform end-to-end, architecting and running high-availability Kotlin/Spring Boot microservices on GCP/GKE with OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs. Improved key operations performance by 5x–50x, reduced incident resolution time from hours to under one hour, increased Pulumi infrastructure automation coverage from ~30% to ~90%, and boosted release cadence from every 3–4 month
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University
Bachelor’s + Master’s (WES assessed equivalent), Computer Science
1997 - 2002
Studied Computer Science at Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University (1997–2002); WES assessed the program equivalent to a Bachelor's and Master's degree.
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