Summary
Ilari Shafer is a software engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading teams at Microsoft and now Google, focused on data visualization, mobile systems, and time series. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from building a numeric time series datastore during his CMU graduate work to shipping features in Internet Explorer—with senior leadership driving large-scale platform and product efforts. Based in Bellevue, Washington, he is comfortable bridging research-grade systems and production engineering, having deployed monitoring and configuration-correlation platforms to campus clusters and production clouds. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who mentors engineers while keeping a strong emphasis on observability and usability. An early-career background in embedded firmware, signal analysis, and mathematical modeling gives him an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective on performance and data-driven interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish