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Pavel Bastov

@pavelbastov

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Backend engineer specializing in Kotlin microservices and GCP platform reliability.

France

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a team where I can own backend platform architecture end-to-end—designing APIs, improving reliability with strong monitoring/incident response, and driving infrastructure automation on GCP/GKE to ship faster with high quality.

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

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Chief Technology Officer

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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