Pavel Rybinstev

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Senior backend engineer and technical lead with 20+ years of professional experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and high-availability backend platforms across blockchain, financial, trading,…

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Senior backend engineer and technical lead with 20+ years of professional experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and high-availability backend platforms across blockchain, financial, trading, and enterprise infrastructure domains. Specialized in Go backend development, API platforms, event-driven architectures, infrastructure automation, and production systems operating under strict reliability and scalability requirements.

  • 14 years' experience
  • Joined May 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Computers & Electronics
  • Professional Services
  • Financial Services

Work experience· 5 roles

Software Engineer / Tech Lead · VoyagerJan 2022 – Jan 2022 · 1 mo

Led extraction of the accounting domain from a Node.js monolith into an event-driven microservice. Isolated financial logic, introduced Kafka-based ingestion, and re-architected transaction processing to support per-customer ordering via partitioning. Implemented feature-flag-driven deployment workflows for controlled rollouts and rapid rollback in a high-risk financial system.

Senior Backend Engineer · Validation CloudJan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos

Designed and implemented RPC services and scalable backend infrastructure for 300M daily requests with 99.99% availability. Built a production Ethereum Staking-as-a-Service platform to automate validator lifecycle end-to-end, including deposits, provisioning, monitoring, reward indexing, and MEV integration. Improved testing and CI for backend services and deployed changes in billing, staking, and compliance. Implemented end-to-end billing and usage metering for RPC-as-a-Service serving tens of thousands of customers, including compute-unit accounting, fair enforcement, and MEV considerations. Developed wallet-intelligence datasets powering blockchain analytics, including attribution of funds and geographic inference from on-chain activity.

Staff Software Engineer · InfoBloxJan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Led backend API and control-plane design translating user intent into DNS/DHCP infrastructure configuration. Implemented targeted config rollout to affected nodes, reducing unnecessary reloads and service disruption. Built versioned config delivery and forward-compatibility mechanisms that ship config ahead of binaries, minimizing downtime. Contributed to hybrid cloud/on-prem deployments and architected scalable backend systems (Go, Python, C#/C++) with microservices and CI/CD.

Backend Team Lead · Image RecognitionJan 2015 – Jan 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo
Software Engineer · WhiteBay TechnologiesJan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Education

B.S. in Computer Science · Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College2030 – 2015

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