Pavel Kuznetsov
Moscow, Russia
Top-fifty ICPC finisher, six years at Yandex search infrastructure, two popular open-source Go libraries. Pavel writes the high-throughput services.
Pavel started competitive programming at thirteen in his hometown of Novosibirsk, Russia, and was a top-fifty finisher at the 2014 ACM-ICPC World Finals in Yekaterinburg. He spent the next six years at Yandex in Moscow, working on the parts of search infrastructure that have to answer hundreds of thousands of queries per second without ever — under any circumstances — failing visibly to a user. That experience shaped his engineering politics: "code is read more often than written, debugged more often than read, and load-tested more often than debugged."
He moved to Moscow in early 2022 and joined Keltus shortly after. He maintains two open-source Go libraries used widely enough that they show up in Cloudflare and HashiCorp dependency graphs, and he is the technical lead on every Keltus project where Go is doing the heavy lifting — GoWeb's real-time forum core, NewsTosser's rewrite pipeline, Zavos's translation orchestration.
Pavel competes in classical chess (FIDE rating around 2100), plays ice hockey on an over-30s amateur team in Brno, and refuses to commit code on Fridays — "because Saturday me is who has to fix it."