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Pavel Samsonov

Fractional Chief Technology Officer

€1,200/day
Marbella, ES
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Pavel

18 years walking into technology situations where something is broken, missing, or about to fail - and figuring out what to do about it.

That's taken me from managing $20M enterprise programs with 150+ engineers to building startups from zero as a solo technical founder. From passing Google's code review with near-zero revisions to rescuing product launches weeks before go-live. From architecting platforms that enabled $1.5M fundraises to cutting deployment chaos from 36 hours to 8 on Fortune 500 programs.

What I've learned across all of it: technology problems are almost never really technology problems. They're decision problems, organizational problems, and risk problems that happen to live inside code and infrastructure.

A few numbers from the journey:
- Reduced deployment time 78% on a $20M/yr telecom program, eliminating $1M+ in SLA penalties
- Built and transferred complete technology organizations twice — seed to Series A
- Passed Google's engineering review on 40K+ lines with 3 comments
- Rescued three product launches over the last 2 years within 10 weeks of go-live, protecting $30M+ in revenue
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Portuguese

    Fluent

  • Spanish

    Conversational

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • FJX Group
    Chief Technology Officer
    September 2025 - Today (9 months)
    Marbella, AN, Spain
    • - Technology due diligence for PE and investment funds evaluating acquisitions - architecture, team, process, and risk assessment with investment recommendations
    • - AI and digital transformation strategy - helping mid-market businesses identify and implement AI-driven operational improvements, automation opportunities, and technology modernization
    • - Post-acquisition technology oversight and remediation planning for portfolio companies
  • Urso Branco Software
    Fractional CTO, M&A Due Diligence, Crisis-Stage Rescue
    May 2019 - Today (7 years and 1 month)
    Florianopolis, SC, Brazil
    Founded and operated a cross-border technology consultancy serving venture-backed startups and enterprise clients across Europe, US, and Southeast Asia. Managed P&L, multi-country operations (EU/Brazil/EMEA), and client delivery simultaneously.
  • Slice.id
    Interim CTO, Build-Operate-Transfer
    January 2022 - May 2023 (1 year and 4 months)
    Built Indonesian influencer analytics platform from zero. Hired and trained 4-person local engineering team. Platform integrated YouTube, TikTok, andInstagram APIs. Secured $600K seed funding. Successfully transfer

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Education

  • Master's Degree, Computer
    State University of Nizhni
    2011
    Master's Degree, Computer

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