Pavel (Pasha) Simakov Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ Tech Lead for Google Cloud CI/CD and DevOps products (Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Container Analysis & Scanning, Cloud Deploy, and more)+ Tech Lead for Secure Software Supply Chain, Secure CI/CD, Secure DevOps (SLSA framework, build provenance, SBOM generation, vulnerability management)+ Partner integrations business performance metrics & BI+ Experimental projects on applied LLMs and Business Intelligence in Cloud Operations# some of my public GitHub contributions & articles:+ Introducing LLMs with Template Augmented Generation (TAG): https://softwaresecretweapons.com/llm_tag.html+ Zero-Downtime Blue/Green VM Deployments with Managed Instance Groups, Cloud Build & Terraform: https://github.com/psimakov/gcp-mig-simple

Westport, Connecticut, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ advised: 75+ multidisciplinary startup engineering teams in building variety of new software products+ helped: choose best technical solutions, uniquely leverage Cloud, execute quickly+ worked with: Alex Gawley, Gabor Cselle, Ujjwal Singh, Fuzzy Khosrowshahi, and others in building out Google Area 120+ hands on: Flutter, Angular, React, React-Native, JavaScript, JQuery, Closure, AppScript, OAuth, REST, gRPC, Java, Python (2, 3), Golang, Firebase, Cloud Functions, AppEngine, Kubernetes, BigQuery, Bazel, Google Assistant & API.AI, G Suite, applied machine learning, TensorFlow, Python Notebooks, domain specific languages+ cloud providers: proficient AWS, certified Google Professional Cloud Architect (https://www.credential.net/4131h4un) in GCP# some of my public GitHub contributions & articles:+ ToyBox: https://github.com/google/pyaedj+ Machine Learning & Google Cloud: https://github.com/google/eng-edu/tree/master/ml/cc+ Online Education: https://github.com/google/coursebuilder-core+ Android: https://github.com/google/coursebuilder-android-container-module+ edX.org: https://github.com/google/coursebuilder_xblock_module

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ responsible for a number of internal and external software products leading multiple engineering teams+ tech lead for https://research.google.com/+ tech lead for https://www.cs-first.com+ tech lead for Course Builder, online education and open-source MOOC platform at Google Research+ tech lead for Google @ Open edX+ worked closely with Peter Norvig, Dan Clancy, Maggie Johnson+ delivered some of the world's largest, if not the largest MOOCs for Course Builder partners such as Google's Digital Garage and NPTEL+ reached over 5M Course Builder student registrations+ contributed to https://pencilcode.net/+ hands on in: JavaScript, OAuth, I18N, Python, GraphQL, REST, Datastore, Cloud Tasks, PHP, WordPress

Mountain View, Ca, Us

+ worked closely with Osama Bedier, Angela Lai, Mike Blandina, Daniel Issen+ helped manage Google Checkout architecture, APIs & data services+ worked on cloud-based version of Google Wallet+ helped to bring TxVia into Google Wallet+ developed few patents+ hands on in: Java, Guice, XML, REST, ProtoBuf, gRPC, MySQL, Map/Reduce, billing, Payment Gateway integrations, NFC pay

San Jose, Ca, Us

+ principal Architect for Merchant Technologies division of PayPal+ responsible for overall technology strategy, architecture, design and implementation of various systems; adoption of service-oriented architecture+ responsible for architecture direction of numerous payments products covering signup & integration API's, Website Payments Standard, Pro & Virtual Terminal (VT), Gateway, eBay & Express Checkout, auth&capture, billing, disputes, reporting and other supporting functionality+ worked closely with Nat Rajesh Natarajan, Nik Sathe and Shivkumar Krishnan+ hands on in: JavaScript, Java, Struts, C++, payments network integrations, consumer integrations+ received Tech Leadership award

+ founding engineer and chief architect of online marketing, media and entertainment platform Moola.com+ led design, development and operations of the Moola.com software and hardware platform from napkin drawing to production+ hired, trained and managed software engineering team+ worked closely with Jason White(http://www.blocksy.com/), Grant Ritchie(http://www.locationary.com) and Arlen Ritchie+ developed mission critical software components and subsystems, including custom distributed middleware, soft real-time games, real-time monitoring and business intelligence+ first in the industry delivered Google Maps-integrated hotel booking site using AJAX+ developed asynchronous search engine for federation of worldwide hotel booking information from numerous online data feeds in real-time+ did a lot of other good things, mostly confidential+ hands on in: Java, JavaScript, Flash, MySQL, datacenter management, Domain Specific Languages, AWS

Toronto, On, Ca

+ worked closely with Michael Atkin and Sean Leyne+ led a team of software engineers, developing a software solution for TV stations+ designed and implemented data mining & OLAP sales analysis tools+ developed reporting subsystem and custom PDF document generator+ redesigned application DCOM security and threading model

+ led a team of software engineers, developing a software product for financial analysis, balanced scorecard, and performance measurement+ re-engineered product from file-server to client-server architecture, designed and implemented distributed middleware, dramatically improved product performance and capabilities+ worked closely with Michael Lenaghan, Peggy O'Neil and Richard Underwood+ product size is over 1,000,000 lines of source code+ created proprietary OLAP engine and object database+ developed domain specific languages, parsers, compilers, code-generators and other high-leverage development tools for internal use+ hands on in: JavaScript, Flash, SVG, Delphi, Object-Pascal, C#, .Net, CTree DB, ODBC, MSSQL, TCP/IP & UDP, raw sockets

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

+ led a team of software engineers, piloting software product line for genomics and proteomics research+ worked closely with Alanas Petrauskas+ hands on in: MS Visual C++

Education record

Ph.D., Physical Organic Chemistry

B.S., Chemistry