Pavel Karataev
Technical Team Lead at VK
St Petersburg, St Petersburg City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Karataev is a seasoned Python backend developer and technical team lead with 14 years of experience building web applications and leading engineering teams in Russia. He currently leads backend efforts at VK, driving services like market.my.games, and has a track record of reviving legacy B2C projects and launching new B2B products. Pavel favors agile practices, strong team communication, and clean code principles, combining hands-on development with people leadership. He brings deep practical knowledge of PostgreSQL alongside experience with NoSQL systems like MongoDB, enabling reliable data-driven architectures. Known internally as a clean-code evangelist, he excels at turning messy codebases into maintainable, production-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Github Skills (39)
static-analysis10
python10
mypy10
strongly-typed10
railway-oriented-programming10
type-safety10
linter10
webview9
static-code-analysis9
django9
packaging9
resolver9
mobile-application9
web-frontend9
rust9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
minmax/pypoker-eval
Nov 2011 - Jun 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
minmax/gunicorn
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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