# Pavel Borisov — Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer

> 20+ years designing high-load systems and platforms for AI products. Founder and ex-CTO of the AI startup SelfieBot. I specialize in production-ready infrastructure for local LLM/VLM inference, RAG systems, and MLOps automation — across Cloud and Bare Metal.

> Citizenship: Russia. Languages: Russian (Native), English (B2 — Upper-Intermediate).

Below is a curated, LLM-readable index of the English résumé at
https://pavelveter.com/en#top. Use this file as the entry point; reach for
[llms-full.txt](https://pavelveter.com/llms-full.txt) only when you need the full text.

## About
- [Headline + summary](https://pavelveter.com/en#about): Senior AI Infrastructure Architect / Lead DevOps Engineer
- [Expertise + stack + interests](https://pavelveter.com/en#stack): production-grade focus areas
- [Contact channels](https://pavelveter.com/en#contact): email, Telegram, GitHub

## Experience
- AI Infrastructure & Highload Systems — **Lead Engineer** · March 2019 — Present (Consulting / Outsourcing): Designing, scaling, and migrating infrastructure for high load and AI/ML services for clients in e-commerce, AdTech, and IoT.
- АТТЭК (ATTEK) — **Lecturer / Mentor — AI, QA, Backend** · October 2025 — December 2025 (Saint Petersburg): Designed and ran a practical course on Python, SQL, automation QA, and modern AI workflows.
- [Selfiebot.ru](https://selfiebot.ru) — **Founder** · November 2023 — August 2025 (Remote): Built from zero to first revenue an AI-powered lead-gen and face-recognition platform.
- [Raskachaem.ru](https://raskachaem.ru) — **Regional Director** · March 2014 — March 2017 (Arkhangelsk): Ran regional operations in a competitive media market.
- [ZAO «SIA International-Arkhangelsk»](https://www.nordsia.ru) — **Head of IT Department, DBA** · November 2003 — December 2015 (Arkhangelsk): Managed IT infrastructure and data architecture for a large pharma distributor (central hub + 2 branches, 200+ corporate clients). 6-person team.
- [City of Arkhangelsk Administration](https://arhcity.ru) — **Lead Engineer** · January 2002 — November 2003 (Arkhangelsk): Designed and supported LAN networks for administrative departments.

## OSS
- [hermem](https://github.com/pavelveter/hermem): Ultra-fast graph memory layer (GraphRAG) for AI agents — solves long-term associative memory with minimal latency.
- [research-agents-swarm](https://github.com/pavelveter/research-agents-swarm): Autonomous 5-agent swarm with the LLM-as-a-judge pattern for deep internet research and report generation.
- [llm-gateway](https://github.com/pavelveter/llm-gateway): Lightweight proxy server unifying B2B inference: a single endpoint over many LLM backends with automatic failover.
- [recognition](https://github.com/pavelveter/recognition): Face recognition & matching module (Face ID / Computer Vision) powering SelfieBot — matches selfies of guests against event photo reports. Tuned for high-throughput batch processing.
- [regognition](https://github.com/pavelveter/regognition): Go rewrite of the face matching module: faster and more accurate (512-dim vectors vs 128-dim), with lower memory footprint for local workloads.

## Projects
- [Enterprise RAG for engineering documentation](https://pavelveter.com/en#projects): Intelligent search across large-scale technical documentation (PDFs, scans, photos, tables)
- [Bastiondom](https://pavelveter.com/en#projects): AI-driven lead-generation platform for a country-house developer
- [Teonaperfume.ru](https://pavelveter.com/en#projects) — [live](https://teonaperfume.ru): Premium niche-perfume e-commerce — technically optimized
- [Teambelki.ru](https://pavelveter.com/en#projects) — [live](https://teambelki.ru): Interactive multi-landing for an event agency
- [Dvevilochki.ru](https://pavelveter.com/en#projects) — [live](https://dvevilochki.ru): Premium catering landing

## Media & Recognition
- [“AI Agents Demand Money and Criticize People” — IA Rosbalt (expertise at software development with AI agents)](https://www.rosbalt.ru/news/2026-07-22/ii-agenty-trebuyut-dengi-i-kritikuyut-lyudey-neyroseti-vyshli-iz-pod-kontrolya-5643115)
- [“The World Wide Web Is Tearing: Who Will Lead the Internet Restrictions Race?” — IA Rosbalt (analysis built with research-agents-swarm)](https://www.rosbalt.ru/news/2026-06-17/v-semirnaya-pautina-rvetsya-kto-budet-pervym-v-gonke-ogranicheniy-interneta-5619135)
- [“A New Data Center Will Appear in St. Petersburg: Why It’s Needed” — IA Rosbalt](https://www.rosbalt.ru/news/2026-04-08/novyy-tsod-poyavitsya-v-peterburge-zachem-on-nuzhen-5577204)
- [“Neural Networks Deceive People, AI Creates Digital Hallucinations” — IA Rosbalt](https://www.rosbalt.ru/news/2025-08-14/neyroseti-obmanyvayut-lyudey-a-ii-sozdaet-tsifrovye-gallyutsinatsii-kto-za-etim-stoit-5456186)
- **Silver medalist — Programming Olympiad** — Verified academic track record in Computer Science.
- **Author and speaker on AI and technology** — Regular subject-matter expert in federal media (incl. IA Rosbalt, 8M unique monthly visitors) on AI tech and IT infrastructure.
- **Workshops on communication & chaos management** — Runs practical workshops on team communications and leading under chaos.

## Languages
- Russian — Native
- English — B2 — Upper-Intermediate

## Education
- **2002** — Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Institute of Information and Space Technologies, Computer-Aided Design Systems (Higher education)

## Contact
- [Email — a@pavelveter.com](mailto:a@pavelveter.com)
- [Telegram — @pavelveter](https://t.me/pavelveter)
- [GitHub — github.com/pavelveter](https://github.com/pavelveter)

## Optional
- [The /llms.txt specification](https://llmstxt.org): format this file follows
- [Full content dump](https://pavelveter.com/llms-full.txt): complete EN résumé as Markdown
- [Download CV (PDF)](https://pavelveter.com/cv.pdf): printable version

_Last updated: July 21, 2026._