Igor Polevoy
Founder at Leantegral
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolIgor Polevoy is a founder and seasoned technologist with 16+ years of experience building and scaling web platforms, product teams, and developer tools from startups to enterprises. He founded ExpressPigeon (acquired by IMImobile and later Cisco) and is the original author and main maintainer of JavaLite, an open-source Java web framework used by large companies. Igor blends hands-on engineering and architecture with product-first leadership—pinning down product scope, laying technical foundations, and driving teams to deliver customer-facing systems. His background spans CTO and architect roles at organizations like Groupon, Humana clients, and social-impact projects such as Jail Education Solutions, showing a knack for shipping sophisticated systems under tight timelines. Often spotted coding in unconventional places, he teaches and mentors developers and favors pragmatic, fast-ROI solutions.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science at DePaul University
English
Github Skills (152)
parser10
jsoup10
orientdb10
activejdbc10
realms10
xss10
activerecord10
embedded10
web-development10
xpath10
cpp10
javalite10
css-selectors10
gwt10
html-parser10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
javalite/javalite
Jul 2010 - Jan 2023
JavaLite is a cohesive collection of frameworks designed from ground up to add pleasure back to your daily life
Contributions:17 releases, 7 reviews, 1242 commits in 12 years 8 months
daily-lifeconventionsgroundradactivejdbc
javalite/javalite.github.io
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 84 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.