Senior Rust engineer, Sofia, Bulgaria · remote since 2019.

I write the part that has to stay up. Rust, mostly: distributed systems, P2P protocols, blockchain indexing, and the tooling around them. Most of it is still running.

cargopete.com · CV (PDF) · pavlovskipetko@gmail.com · linkedin

7 years 7 months shipping in production, Rust for the last five of them. 217 stars on Matchstick. 36 of 89 public repos in Rust.

• graphcast (GraphOps, 2022-2025) - a P2P messaging protocol for The Graph's indexer network, built on Waku and libp2p. Gossip, fault-tolerant delivery, and a radio pattern that lets anyone add a message type without touching the core.
• matchstick (The Graph, 2021) - unit testing for subgraphs, in Rust and WebAssembly. The ecosystem standardised on it. 217 stars, 17 forks, still maintained by others.
• nuthatch - a self-hosted blockchain indexer in one binary. Follows the chain, seals segments to Parquet, serves SQL and MCP, makes no calls home.
• yatr - a single-binary task runner whose cache is content-addressed and signed, so a shared cache entry can be trusted rather than hoped about. Speaks REAPI.
• Fathom (current) - Rust services behind an AI data platform. Not public, which is why it isn't linked.

Accountant before that, which is where the habit of checking the number twice comes from.

In: Rust backends, services and CLIs · distributed systems and P2P protocol work · blockchain indexing and data infrastructure · developer tooling and testing frameworks · taking something that half works and making it hold · remote, EET, overlapping most of a European day.

Out: frontend as the main job (I ship React and Flutter when a project needs it, but it isn't what you want me for) · smart contract auditing (written contracts, not audited them for a living) · ML research (I build the pipelines, not the models) · relocation and full US-hours on-call · work where the architecture is settled and not open to a question.

This is also the source for cargopete.com - a static site, one page, no framework at runtime. Built with Astro, deployed on Vercel, apex www.cargopete.com.

Built to the cargopete-style house skill. That means the palette is mandated rather than chosen: src/styles/global.css carries the skill's reference/tokens.css verbatim between two MANDATED markers. Edit those tokens in the skill and re-copy them here - never in this repo - so every site in the house style stays identical.

Texture is flat: no gradients, no shadows, hairline borders and whitespace doing the structural work. Dark by default with a light theme that is a faithful inversion.

The terminal transcript in the hero is real output, run on 21 August 2026. Both commands can be pasted into a shell and reproduced. If the numbers drift, rerun them and update the page rather than rounding.

npm install
npm run dev          # http://localhost:4321
npm run build        # -> dist/
npm run check        # Astro types and content

Or with yatr: yatr dev, yatr build, yatr ci.

Fonts are self-hosted, subset with fonttools to the glyphs the page uses. Together they are 35KB, which is most of the page weight. Do not add a font CDN.

The favicon set is drawn, not imported. public/favicon.svg is the source of truth; scripts/make-favicon.py reproduces the same geometry as PNG and ICO with no dependencies beyond the standard library. Change both together, then run yatr favicon.

Zero third-party requests is a rule, not a target. No analytics, no tag manager, no font CDN.

Vercel auto-detects Astro: build npm run build, output dist/. Pushes to main deploy. vercel.json sets the security headers and a one-year immutable cache on /fonts/*.