Ilia Lazebnik
Senior Director Of Engineering at Placer.ai
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIlia Lazebnik is a Senior Director of Engineering based in New York with a decade of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and platform teams, currently leading Placer.ai’s infrastructure, platform, and CI/CD organizations across the US and Israel. He combines hands-on expertise in AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform (including core contributions to the Terraform AWS provider and VPC modules), and observability to drive reliability, security, and developer productivity at scale. Ilia has led large migrations to Kubernetes, implemented enterprise tracing with OpenTelemetry, and built self-service platforms that run thousands of nodes while improving deployment velocity. An active open-source contributor, he has improved critical tooling across Prometheus Helm charts, Terraform providers, and security-as-code checks in Checkov, helping secure and automate infrastructure used by thousands. He also champions AI adoption across R&D, creating tooling and frameworks that accelerate release pipelines and measurable organizational growth.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, High School, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Holtz High School
English, Russian, Hebrew
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Github Skills (40)
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
apidoc10
hashicorp-vault10
charts10
cloud-infrastructure10
resource-management10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
sagemaker10
gcp10
terraformer10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
The AWS Provider enables Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:452 reviews, 2516 commits, 709 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ilia's commits primarily involve modifying and extending the `sagemaker/space.go` file, indicating a focus on back-end development within the AWS SageMaker ecosystem. The user added new arguments, updated existing features, and fixed test cases related to the SageMaker Space resource. These changes point to feature implementation and refinement within the Terraform provider for AWS. The user also worked on enhancing the functionality of the SageMaker space by incorporating app lifecycle management.
providerterraform-modulesaws-terraform-providerterraformterraform-provider
hashicorp/terraform-provider-kubernetes
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Terraform Kubernetes provider
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 26 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Ilia primarily contributed to the Terraform Kubernetes provider, focusing on implementing and extending features related to Kubernetes resources. Their work included adding support for new resources like CSIDriver and PersistentVolume, and introducing functionalities such as sysctl settings within the pod spec. Additionally, they improved the resource by including validations and added support for various features like readiness gates and topology spread constraints, and ensuring that the resource can be updated. They also worked on improving the resource's deletion behavior and added support for deleting volume mounts and updating service types.
providerkubernetesterraformterraform-providerkubernetes-provider
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