PAVEL PERMINOV
STAFF ENGINEER

Summary

I am a Staff Engineer who builds reliable platforms and AI-enabled products from idea to production. I have delivered full-stack systems, cloud infrastructure, and observability at scale across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and recently led AI solution development with OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Ollama.

I specialize in turning complex requirements into practical, secure, and automated systems. My work spans distributed architectures, CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, monitoring, and security hardening, with a focus on measurable outcomes like faster delivery, higher uptime, and reduced operational cost.

I enjoy mentoring and cross-team collaboration, and I communicate directly to resolve ambiguity and drive improvements. I am hands-on across application, DevOps, and infrastructure layers, and I persist until the system and the team are in a better place.

Toolset

  • Programming Languages: Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python
  • Development Tools: Git, Conda, Gerrit, Jest, GitHub, React Native, React.js, MobX, Redux, Robot Framework, PyTest, Node.js, NPM, Yarm
  • Databases: InfluxDB, MongoDB, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis
  • Infrastructure: Bash, Active Directory, CentOS, Fedora, Docker, Istio, HAProxy, Nginx, GlusterFS, CEPH, NFS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Helm, Debian, IPSEC, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, KVM, Microsoft Azure, RabbitMQ, NATs, Mikrotik, OpenSUSE, OpenVPN, Wireguard, Restic
  • IaaC: Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi
  • DevOps: Aptly, ArgoCD, Datadog, Artifactory, AWS, GitLab, Azure DevOps, ElasticSearch, FluentBit, Grafana, Jenkins, Kapacitor, Packer, Kibana, Prometheus, Telegraf, Logstash, Sentry
  • SecOps: Grype, OpenVAS, Nmap, Wireshark, tcpdump, Sysinternals
  • Workflow: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Release management, Confluence, Jira

Key Technical Skills

  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Proven ability to master complex concepts quickly and deliver creative, high-impact results.
  • Software architecture, development and optimization.
  • Security implementation and enforcement.
  • Microservice, distributed and monolithic architectures.
  • Software testing, quality assurance and code reviews.
  • Containerization and Orchestration.
  • Distributed systems.
  • Database management.
  • Performance optimization.
  • Data solutions.
  • Networking.
  • Hardware.
  • Algorithms and Data Structures.
  • DevSecOps practices.
  • Infrastructure architecture and management.
  • Cloud computing and virtualization.

Key soft skills

  • Cross-functional communication
  • Team communication
  • Ability to explain complex concepts clearly.
  • Teamwork
  • Problem solving
  • Technical leadership and mentorship (experience managing teams of up to 16 people)

Key business skills

  • Business first.
  • Been an entrepreneur. Loved it.
  • Costs optimization.
  • CTO
  • Recruitment process management (job postings, interviews, skill and experience evaluation, test assessments design and evaluation).

Experience

Senior AI Software Engineering Consultant at Unikie
January 2026 - Present

  • Played a role in enhancing AI solutions by developing ecosystems around cutting-edge technologies.
  • Built and optimized systems using OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Ollama to drive innovation.
  • Customized large language models for specific applications, improving user interactions and operational workflows.
  • Collaborated with diverse teams to ensure seamless integration of AI technologies into existing systems.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Unikie
December 2025 - December 2025 (1 month)

  • Ensured the stability, availability, and security of critical infrastructure environments.
  • Automated deployment processes with Ansible, reducing rollout times to 10-15 minutes.
  • Enhanced security practices across infrastructure and deployment pipelines, improving overall compliance.

Senior Software Engineering Consultant at Unikie
May 2025 - November 2025 (7 months)

  • Designed and developed a gateway aggregating multiple services under unified protocols.
  • Built unit and integration test suites increasing reliability.
  • Built a vulnerability detection system.
  • Created a custom rate limiter for platform endpoints.
  • Integrated Datadog for observability and performance monitoring.
  • Collaborated with multiple distributed teams to resolve system and architectural issues.
  • Identified critical vulnerabilities and ensured correct remediation through security channels.
  • Served as a key engineer capable of debugging the platform across infra, DevOps, and application layers.

Sr. Fullstack engineer at Bolt.works
September 2023 - January 2024 (5 month)

  • Integrated several third-party APIs, reducing manager’s decision making from 10–24 hours to 1-2 minutes.
  • Developed a tool to streamline developers’ workflows, eliminating the need for terminal window switching entirely.
  • Increased integration test coverage by 3% which improved Gitlab’s CI/CD process reliability.
  • Calculated and proved the way to reduce software development and delivery costs.
  • Developed and optimized software for AWS infrastructure.

Sr. Software/DevOps/Infrastructure engineer at Millisecond oy
April 2021 - August 2023 (2 years, 4 month)

  • Designed and developed a platform for mining operations management, eliminating customer’s need for paper-based processes and enabling real-time progress tracking.
  • Developed a distributed IoT platform achieving 100% real-time visibility and remote access. This allowed customers to see the state of their vehicles no matter the vendor.
  • Developed a truck management platform reducing operational costs by over 10% by keeping track of maintenance intervals and predicting problems.
  • Implemented security protocols, development workflows, Git policies and deployment policies to enhance system reliability and significantly reduce the likelihood of human error.
  • Integrated monitoring into all software achieving 100% real-time visibility.
  • Created 99% identical production and development kubernetes environments (using Ansible and Terraform across AWS, GCP, Azure and edge) which allowed to reduce bugs in production and test changes in close-to-real environments.
  • Automated CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, Gitlab, ArgoCD) and disaster recovery systems, achieving 100% process automation and 99.9% uptime.
  • Developed a solution for real-time monitoring and incident notification, cutting response time from hours to just 1 minute.
  • Supported Developers, Management and Customers regarding platforms, software development and other tasks.

Sr.Infrastructure developer at Ericsson
June 2020 - April 2021 (11 month)

  • Designed and implemented a distributed monitoring alert-handling system where multiple instances dynamically detect and process incoming events with conflict resolution through randomized tie-breaking to ensure efficient and reliable event assignment, meeting client requirements for 100% guaranteed alerting while ensuring Ericsson’s insanely strictest requirements for platform’s encryption and security.
  • Managed integration of open-source software into proprietary systems, streamlining development and enhancing functionality.

Infrastructure engineer at Curious AI
January 2019 - May 2020 (1 year, 5 month)

  • We’ve been developing a version control system for AI training on Kubernetes, enabling process restarts from any point, improving stability by 50% and enabling full reproducibility.
  • Developed Kubernetes tools and plugins, including a CSI plugin, Ingress controller and configuration manager, achieving 100% tailored control of the infrastructure.
  • Migrated legacy platforms to Kubernetes, standardizing deployments and reducing complexity.
  • Built AWS infrastructure (EKS, CloudFormation etc), ensuring 99.9% service availability and scalability.
  • Migrated legacy platforms to Kubernetes, standardizing deployments and reducing complexity.
  • Implemented Jenkins, significantly simplifying application development and delivery processes.
  • Supported developers in day-to-day infrastructure and DevOps related tasks.

DevExp engineer at Tochka Bank
June 2018 - December 2018 (7 month)

  • Developed a highly available cloud-native load balancer for InfluxDB with resynchronization and errors fixing.
  • Built command-line tools for authorization and database subscription management.
  • Identified and fixed Linux kernel bugs.
  • Supported developers in day-to-day infrastructure and DevOps related tasks.

Sr. Systems/DevOps/Software engineer at TPlus group
August 2008 - June 2018 (10 years)

  • Using bash, Python and PHP developed a low cost backup solution covering 100% of branches with backups and enabling rapid data recovery for every given hour.
  • Designed data centers, storage and virtualization solutions achieving 100% IT service coverage.
  • Developed numerous tools and scripts for automation and optimization purposes.
  • Supported users, customers and other IT teams regarding our systems and best practices

Languages

  • English – Fluent
  • Russian – Native
  • Swedish – B1
  • Finnish – A1

Education

  • Continuously hacking various equipment to explore and enhance its functionality.
  • Learning through building my personal projects.