Leadership & Team Building: Built and scaled a software development team of 6 developers, improving team productivity and collaboration through Agile and SCRUM methodologies. Increased project delivery speed by introducing best practices in continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).
Strategic Vision: Collaborated with executive teams to align technical development with business goals, contributing to increase in revenue by streamlining product offerings and optimizing technical infrastructure for future scalability.
Product Roadmap Influence: Actively contributed to product roadmaps, ensuring alignment between technical capabilities and market demands, resulting in faster go-to-market for high-impact features.
Strategic Product Development: Led the development of demo applications showcased at CES 2022 and CES 2024, enhancing the company’s global visibility and contributing to new business opportunities.
Mobile and IoT Integration: Spearheaded the development of new applications for iOS and Android, integrated with Apple CarPlay and Google Android Auto. These applications are used by over 50K motorbike drivers, contributing to growth in customer satisfaction and improvement of motorbike driving safety.
Cloud Migration & Optimization: Successfully migrated backend services from Azure to AWS (EC2, S3, SES), reducing cloud costs by 3x and improving system uptime to 99.99%. Implemented AWS Beanstalk and Docker to streamline application deployment and maintenance.
Innovation & Advanced Technologies: Developed internal SDKs to interact with IoT devices over BLE, enabling seamless integration with proprietary protocols and significantly improving device connectivity performance.
Voice Assistance Integration: Led the integration of Amazon Alexa voice assistance, enhancing user experience and expanding product capabilities in smart vehicle interactions.
Infrastructure Management: Established and supported local CI infrastructure (based on Jenkins), significantly reducing build times and improving deployment efficiency.
Recommendations
I worked with Ilya for a year and I discover a great person with a hacker mindset. He’s a truly valuable asset really focus on his team and his tasks. As a marketer, I had the pleasure to discuss with him about strategy and revenues. Great team mate, I highly recommend him.
I worked with Ilya where he is the technical lead of the Eyelights mobile team. A hard worker who listens to his colleagues, he has always taken the time to put his collaborators in the best possible conditions to work and increase their skills. On the human side, Ilya is sociable, friendly and open-minded. An integration in a new team is easy thanks to him.