Ilia Lobsanov
Senior Software Engineer II at Narvar
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIlia Lobsanov is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building full-stack, high-traffic web platforms and SaaS products from early-stage startups to enterprise environments. He has a strong Ruby on Rails background complemented by modern front-end work (React, Hotwire/Stimulus) and performance-focused migrations, recently improving page load and revenue-generating features for commercial real estate platforms. Ilia has repeatedly driven developer productivity through tooling and onboarding improvements—introducing GitHub Codespaces, Tailwind, and CI best practices—and built practical AI integrations like a ChatGPT-style support agent. His career spans roles as early technical hire/CTO and founder, giving him product-minded instincts alongside hands-on engineering and devops chops. Based in Toronto, he combines deep legacy-system modernization experience with a preference for pragmatic, testable solutions that scale. An often-overlooked strength is his knack for turning operational and onboarding pain points into measurable team velocity gains.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Waterloo
Russian
Stackoverflow
21reputation
913reached
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5questions
Github Skills (143)
postgresql10
pg-search10
currency-converter10
elasticsearch10
scopes10
data-sync10
trigrams10
currency-exchange-rates10
database10
search-engine10
rails-api10
java10
metaphone10
slack10
text-search10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nurey/active_model_serializers
Apr 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:16 pushes in 1 year
railsrubyserializeractivemodelhooks
nurey/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:22 pushes in 8 years 10 months
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