# Pavel Ufimtsev, founder of TelegramInformer

Founder of TelegramInformer, IT business consultant and senior developer. Building software since 2012; open to consulting, partnerships on new ideas, and people who want to join the project.

## What I do

I'm a senior developer and technical consultant based in Batumi, Georgia. I've been building software since 2012,
mostly websites, SaaS products and the integrations that hold businesses together. My core stack is PHP and
Laravel; I also work with Go, PostgreSQL, Node.js, TypeScript, React and WordPress.

Most of my work sits where technology meets the business: choosing what to build, building it so it survives
real traffic, and making it findable in search. I work in English and Russian.

## Why I built TelegramInformer

Telegram has become a news wire, a marketplace and a media industry of its own, yet honest numbers about its
channels are hard to get. I wanted a source that shows its work: every metric defined, every gap admitted, and
rankings nobody can pay to change.

So I built the whole thing myself: a crawler in Go that checks thousands of public channels every day, a
PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB database holding their history (back to May 2023), and this Laravel website. The same
work goes into this project as into client projects: careful data handling, fast pages and clean technical SEO.

## Selected work

- **TelegramInformer.** Founder and sole developer: data collection, analytics, database and website.
- **Pikadil.** Co-founder and tech lead of a deals marketplace. I lead a team of three and built the integrations
  with more than ten affiliate networks.
- **Audience Atlas.** Senior full-stack developer on an audience-intelligence SaaS platform: billing,
  permissions and marketing integrations.
- **CoffeeHow.** Lead developer of a coffee publishing site, rebuilt on a custom WordPress theme with an SEO-first
  structure.

## Working with me

I'm an entrepreneur at heart as much as a developer. I co-founded Pikadil, I built TelegramInformer from nothing,
and what I enjoy most is turning a rough idea into something that works and earns. So there is more than one way to
work together.

**Consulting and development.** If you run a business and need a technical partner, I can help with:

- building or improving a website or web product;
- backend development, APIs and integrations between your tools;
- site speed and technical SEO;
- automating repetitive work, including AI-assisted tools;
- a second opinion on a technical plan before you commit budget to it.

I take on focused consultations and projects, ongoing technical support, agency partnerships and longer contracts.
Details and case studies are at [pavelcode.com](https://pavelcode.com/).

**Partnering on a new idea.** If you have a strong idea for a product or a business, I'd genuinely like to hear it,
even at the back-of-a-napkin stage. I can't join everything, but every serious pitch gets an honest look, and the
right one can turn into a collaboration or a partnership.

**Joining TelegramInformer.** The project is open to contributors, partners and future team members: writers and
researchers with an angle on Telegram, people who want to help with the data, developers, and companies that need
what we collect. Here is [how to get involved](/about#join-the-project).

Whichever it is, write to hello@telegraminformer.com or use the [contact form](/contact), or find me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavel-ufimtsev).

## On this site

I write and maintain the [methodology](/methodology), the [editorial policy](/editorial-policy) and every other page
here, and I personally handle corrections and channel owners' requests. AI tools help me classify channels and
draft some texts; I review everything before it is published.

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Web page: https://telegraminformer.com/about/pavel-ufimtsev