Pasha Perevedentsev
Founding Engineer at Keenable.ai
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolPasha Perevedentsev is a founder and seasoned search engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade search and recommendation systems, now leading Space Frontiers to provide AI-grounded search and APIs for scholarly publications and social media. He combines deep systems expertise from roles at Izihawa, Perplexity, OZON and Yandex with hands-on Rust contributions to notable open-source search tooling (e.g., enhancements to Tantivy such as DisjunctionMaxQuery and Brotli row storage). Comfortable across distributed systems, large-scale text processing (OCR, query expansion), P2P replication and WASM modules, he has a track record of improving latency, reliability and security in mission-critical services. Based in Dubai, he blends startup founder mindset with enterprise-grade engineering practices and a pragmatic eye for CI, observability and antifraud tooling. An understated strength is his ability to move between low-level performance fixes and product-facing API design, making search both fast and usable for AI agents.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Высшая Школа Экономики / Higher School of EconomicsMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
English, Russian
Github Skills (15)
query-optimization10
search-engine10
rust10
serialization9
serializer9
serializable9
deserialization9
brotli9
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
code-optimization8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
testing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
quickwit-oss/tantivy
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Pasha contributed to the Tantivy search engine library by fixing schema deserialization errors, adding a Brotli codec for row storage, and running the clippy linter for code quality improvements. They also implemented the `DisjunctionMaxQuery` feature, refactoring the `ScoreCombiner` for better functionality. Furthermore, they made `FruitHandle` and `MultiFruit` public and updated the code to address Fn -> FnOnce.
full-text-searchlucenerusttantivysearch-engine
PashaPodolsky/pygammacombo
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:38 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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