# Pavel Aitkulov

> Software engineer, Researcher

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pavelaitkulov

◦ Experienced Software Engineer with a strong track record solving business problems using advanced algorithms, machine learning, and functional programming
◦ Proven ability to design and implement optimized data pipelines, perform data analysis, and deploy machine learning models in a production environment

Full CV at https://github.com/ajtkulov/cv/blob/main/aitkulov_cv.pdf

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Orb Intelligence (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Software Engineer, Dun & Bradstreet, San Jose, CA Company profiles, B2B. Data Engineering, Fuzzy search, Clustering
- Increased search hit rate by 4% by developing a Spelling correction module. Applied Trie as
BloomFilters, Count-min-sketch for language models. 7M unique words, 55M pairs, 55M triples.
- Researched and developed a de-duplication method for 600M company profiles. Locality sensitive hashing, MinHash, Trie as BloomFilters for Hamming distance. Found 7M exact and fuzzy duplicates.
- Implemented Verification and Identification services that match web domains to companies. 60M
websites scale.
Technologies: Scala, Python, Postgres, ML, AWS

### Software Engineer @ Piano
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020
Software Engineer, Piano Media, Izhevsk, Russia
A platform for paywall and subscription business. Distributed systems, ML, Reports, DSL, Streaming.
200 Tb data in total, 5000rpsavg, 8000rpspeak daily.
- Launched Likely-to-Subscribe and Likely-to-Churn ML projects, 10M users
- Led and built a project that provides various types of analytic reports, real-time, on-demand,
customizable reports based on DSL. Connected Clojure-based DSL with Spark and BigQuery.
- Implemented User Segmentation Engine, 100M users, used Bloom filter as KV-store Technologies: Scala, Clojure, Unix, Spark, HDFS, DSL, AWS, Akka, Kafka, Catboost, BigQuery

### Researcher @ Huawei
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Researcher, Senior Algorithm Engineer, Huawei Research, Moscow, Russia
Nested data parallelism model, distributed systems, map-reduce, optimization compiler, meta-
programming and code generation, domain-specific languages
- Implemented Spark backend for nested data-parallelism model
- Researched and developed efficient custom Spark RDD’s for NDP-primitives Technologies: Scala, Spark, Distributed Programming, C++

### Software Engineer @ Rosneft
Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | Izhevsk
Oil mining, forecast, and monitoring system. OLAP, up to 2M data points per document, up to 15
dimensions, DSL, Calculations
- Increased calculation speed by 3.5 times using multithreading evaluations
- Pioneered testing and verification via Partial evaluation Technologies: C#, Multithreading, DSL, Partial evaluations


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computer Science
Udmurt State University

### Specialist in CS
Udmurt State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ajtkulov

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Last updated: 2026-04-11