Summary
Calin Ilie is a product-focused engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building software across startups and large enterprises, currently shaping product at Refute. A First Class Computer Science graduate from the University of Manchester, he has shipped services at bet365, Improbable and THG, blending backend engineering with a strong curiosity for electronics and 3D design. Known on GitHub as a maker, breaker and hacker, he brings a pragmatic tinkerer’s mindset to product problems—prototyping hardware-adjacent solutions as easily as backend features. Based in Manchester, he pairs fast iteration and production reliability with a knack for spotting practical UX and operational improvements that aren’t obvious from specs alone.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Romanian Diploma de Bacalaureat Mathematics and Computer Science, Romanian Diploma de Bacalaureat Mathematics and Computer Science at Colegiul Național Ion C. Brătianu
English, Romanian, German, Italian