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About

I’m a Director of Operations Engineering with 10+ years across finance, process engineering, and platform operations.

I own production for a proptech marketplace in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Austin: blue/green release engineering, CI/CD quality gates, observability, security, and payments and billing correctness on Stripe.

I designed and operate an AI agent pipeline on Claude Code that shipped 106 reviewed pull requests in its first month, fed by an LLM triage system I built.

I trained in accounting (B.S. Accounting and Finance), which grounds my focus on reconciliation, audit trails, and correctness in every system I ship.

Get in touch at gcpavlov@gmail.com or on LinkedIn.

Toolbox

Languages & Frameworks
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • Rust
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Flask
Data & Databases
  • PostgreSQL
  • Neon
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Database migrations
  • Data migration and ETL
  • Tableau
  • Excel (VBA)
Cloud & Infrastructure
  • AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, EMR, Glue, Redshift)
  • Azure (Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake Storage)
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Vercel
  • Fly.io
  • Temporal workflows
  • Nix / devenv
  • mise
CI/CD & Release Engineering
  • GitHub Actions
  • Blue/green deployments
  • Merge trains
  • Release management
  • Dependabot
  • Secret scanning (gitleaks)
  • Pre-commit hooks
  • Database migration safety gates
Observability & Reliability
  • Sentry
  • Health checks
  • Synthetic monitoring
  • Tiered alerting
  • Uptime and cron monitoring
  • Incident management
  • Root cause analysis
  • Error-coverage auditing
Security
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Authentication (Clerk)
  • Account-takeover and SSRF remediation
  • PII-safe logging
  • Rate limiting
  • File upload validation
  • Dependency vulnerability gates
Payments & Financial Systems
  • Stripe (Payments, Connect)
  • Billing systems
  • Payment reconciliation
  • QuickBooks
  • Maxio (Chargify)
  • First Data
  • GAAP
  • Month-end close
AI & Automation
  • Claude Code
  • AI agents
  • Large language models (LLMs)
  • OpenRouter (Claude, GPT, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek)
  • Ollama (local models)
  • TypeSafe Jev
  • Claude Code skills
  • Process automation
Integrations & Business Systems
  • REST APIs and webhooks
  • Twilio
  • SendGrid
  • Sanity CMS
  • Linear
  • CRM (Twenty, Zoho, Vtiger, Sonar)
  • ERP implementation

Education

2012 – 2015

B.S., Accounting and Finance; B.B.A., Business Administration (dual major)

Robert Morris University – Illinois, Chicago, IL · GPA 3.9

Languages: English (native), Russian (native)