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Pavel Iakovenko

Member of Technical Staff @ xAI | Developer Experience

Austin, Texas, United States

Career path.

  1. xAI

    Member of Technical Staff

    Nov 2025 - Present
  2. Avride

    Tech Lead Manager — Data Platform Team

    Jun 2024 - Nov 2025
  3. Avride

    Team Lead — Devtools Team

    May 2022 - May 2024
  4. Yandex

    Lead Software Engineer — Yandex Self-Driving Group

    Apr 2021 - May 2022
  5. Yandex

    Team Lead — FinTech Department

    Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
  6. Yandex

    Senior Software Engineer → Team Lead — Metasearch Gateway & Reliability Team (Yandex Search)

    Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
  7. Yandex

    Software Engineer — Logs Processing Team

    Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
  8. Yandex

    Software Engineer — Linguistics Department

    Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
  9. Yandex

    Software Developer Intern — Logs Processing Team

    Jul 2014 - Sep 2014