# Victor Pavlov

> Experienced , hands-on software engineer and software manager .

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/victorpavlov

Experienced , hands-on software manager and technical lead. 
Manage and grow small/midsize engineering teams. 
Design, deliver and  maintain products, ensures customer success.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Zscaler
Jan 2021 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer @ MobileIron
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States

### Engineering Director/Tech Lead @ AllyO
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, CA
* Established team structure and development process to support the larger team, while preserving team member’s independence and creativity. Grew team 3 fold in one year.
* Coaches, guides and mentors engineers into leadership roles. Drives engineering/company culture.
* Leads engineering design, implementation and maintenance of core products: NLP/NLU, Bot Dialogue Manager, Machine Learning , AWS, Docker, Python ecosystem
* Part of ALLYO leadership team.
* Cross-team leadership, working with multiple teams

### Senior Engineering Manager /Tech Lead @ MobileIron
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View,CA
Architected, designed, implemented VPN client for all mobile platforms
* Lead Content/VPN clients team , iOS, Android, Windows and Mac platforms
* Work closely with other engineering teams, product management, support and sales, to collect/clarify requirements, drive engineering design across teams and ensure product success.
* Manage the client team and lead team’s agile process.
* As technical lead, actively working with network protocols as TCP, UDP, VPN, TLS/SSL,OAuth,SAML, certificate management, MDM/EMM across all mobile platforms, backend systems, including Python, Java, Objective-C, C#
* Develop and set best development practices
* Works directly with customer success teams and customers

### Director Of Engineering /Tech Lead @ Keynote Systems, Inc
Jan 2004 – Jan 2014 | San Mateo , CA
•	•	Originated, designed and implemented multiple flagship products: global web monitoring system, including large data collection and automation of web browsers. 
•	Gather and  prioritize technical requirements 
•	Build, recruit, manage and lead multiple engineering teams.
•	Define development process and practices. 
•	Collaborate with all teams in the company, including the executive staff.  
•	Working with customers, to understand their requirements and to address specific issues.
•	Actively develops code and implements features. C++, Java, Python, multi-threaded network servers, databases, TCP/IP, HTTP. 
•	Agile team leader.

### Co-Founder @ Private Startup
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 | Palo  Alto, CA
Co-founder responsible for  engineering. 
Responsible for the design and development of AI solution for pharmaceutical companies using various  AI algorithms, including SVM and neural networks.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Keynote Systems Inc.
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 | San Mateo, CA
Responsible for the architecture, design and development of core products, including web monitoring engines for web browsers. Most of the projects are done in C++, SQL, XML, TCP, DNS, HTTP protocols and Java

### Director of Engineering @ Loopnet
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | San Francisco, CA

### XML Cooktop - Engineering Community Software @ XML Cooktop
Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 | Palo Alto, CA
Author of “Xml Cooktop” - XML/XSLT IDE, freely available to the developer’s community.


## Education
### M.Sc. in Nuclear Power Engineering
Technical University of Sofia


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/victor-pavlov-ab6241

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Last updated: 2026-04-12