Hey, I’m Pavel Bazin, product oriented software engineer with 10 years of experience shipping from 0 to 1. I’m a nomad, currently located in Brazil, which is my 4th country of residence.

Currently I work on a novel AI-driven software systems for Fluency Academy, one of the biggest ed-techs in the world, where I started as the first founding engineer 7 years ago.

Today I develop myself under leadership, management and IC trajectories. I strongly believe in leadership by example. I keep my skills sharp be it technology or management. Past year I’ve finished Harvard Business School Startegy Execution class.

You can reach me at LinkedIn , or via email hey at pavelbazin.com . Here is my, mostly private, GitHub profile as well.

In the past 10 years I’ve been delivering software using more than a dozen of programming languages, technologies, and platforms both as an IC and a leader. I consider myself value driven generalist software engineer. I have production experience with backend systems, frontends, and native applications delivered to hundreds of thousands of users. Notably, I have a solid experience with Go, Python, Java and Scala. I do love functional programming — Scala, Clojure, Elixir, however, over time my preference in development shifted from (over) engineering to business strategy execution and value generation. The best product is the delivered product, regardless of the technology used.

One of my passions is education. I love to study and teach others. I got bizarrely lucky to be the first engineer, and about 3rd employee, of Fluency Academy back in 2018, which turned to become one of the biggest ed-tech companies in the world. Together with founders I walked the path of “if that won’t work we are closing” to the leader of the Brazilian market and General Atlantic as our investor.

Being a founding engineer was a career dictating and transforming experience. Reality of the first engineer is that you do everything, if you don’t know something you learn it fast and do it anyways. You build, you scale, you maintain, you fix, but above all you communicate, you negotiate, plan, execute, hire, grow. By everything I mean from the lead generation forms to passing rounds of technical due diligence process with investors. It is a great power and crazy big responsibility. There was no defined “role”, but there were goals. First goal was to survive, then to scale, then to lead. Aside operational and growth wins I authored and build from the ground up memorization application to help our students with their materials which today counts more than 600,000 users and works with hundreds of millions of artifacts.

I have formal Computer Science education obtained in Europe (University of Pecs, Hungary), with diploma named “Unsupervised Artificial Neural Network Optimization Using Evolution Strategies”.