Pavel Botvinkin

Yandex 360 is a productivity suite with 100M+ MAU and 170K+ organizations. Lead two cross-functional units (~20 people total), with 10 direct reports: eight backend engineers and two unit leads, each also leading a backend team. Technical remit: authorization, audit logging, MDM/MAM and DLP integration. Teams operate three production components (~10 microservices).

• Grew backend engineering from 2 to 10 people, including two team leads, conducting ~140 interviews over 18 months.
• Hired and mentored a backend engineer who became both a unit lead and a backend team lead, with delegated responsibility for delivery and day-to-day people management. He delivered a stalled cross-product group-policy project, owning architecture and implementation.
• Increased team delivery throughput by 75% through AI-assisted development, measured by the number of completed projects of comparable scope versus the previous six-month period.
• Lead preparation for semiannual performance calibrations covering ~150 backend engineers.
• Defined and secured approval for an authorization strategy covering all 10 products. Expanded adoption from one product to roughly half the suite through ROI proposals and a reference integration by the development team. Lead rollout to the remaining products.
• Initiated and led the mission-critical authorization service's stateful-to-stateless redesign and C++-to-Java rewrite through production rollout, moving state to SRE-managed PostgreSQL. Current load: ~50k read / ~500 write RPS.
• Led the inherited audit logging service's C++-to-Java rewrite to align with the team's standard stack. Current load: ~5k write / ~50 read RPS.

• Designed authorization roles scoped to resource IDs rather than whole organizations. Subsequently invited to lead backend engineering.

Led architecture and technical delivery for IHS Markit's (later Accuris) technical-documentation licensing business. Guided ~6 engineers: three backend, two frontend and one QA.

• Delivered the rebuilt licensing system to production on Azure (C#, TypeScript/Angular) with NGAC-based authorization.
• Reconstructed a 25-year-old legacy system's architecture and business logic through reverse engineering and disassembly despite partially missing source code.

Led EcoMAIN's shore-side vessel-data access and analytics project for over two years in the Atos-Siemens Energy partnership, with a cross-functional team of ~10 at peak.

• Owned the Azure system's architecture, development and technical roadmap (Kotlin, TypeScript/Vue.js), coordinating with Siemens' onboard-system team. Delivered the prototype. Production rollout followed my departure.
• Brought delayed frontend delivery back on track through a code audit and escalation to Siemens. Built the shore-side management UI MVP in two weeks. The team integrated it with the existing backend.
• Delivered a MindSphere pilot lasting over a year at Transmashholding's NEVZ plant, integrating industrial machines and factory IoT systems.

Led up to five backend developers building Siemens data-analytics systems.

• Delivered Kotlin time-series analytics services and APIs to production in MindSphere.
• Owned development and release of SEPL (Signal and Event Processing Language), a low-code data-processing language. Built its Kotlin execution engine and led development of its C#/WPF desktop workflow editor.
• Developed a CERN IoT pilot using SEPL for edge processing in the Large Hadron Collider's cryogenic systems.