Ilia Medianikov
Software Engineer at Wayve
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIlia Medianikov is a software engineer based in London with nine years of experience building backend systems at companies ranging from Yandex and Meta to fintech and autonomous driving startups. A two-time IOI medallist, he brings competitive algorithmic rigor to large-scale production challenges, notably contributing backend features to Facebook's sapling source-control project to improve blobstore resilience and changelog handling. His tenure at Meta and WorldQuant involved shipping robust, performance-sensitive systems, and he now applies that expertise at Wayve on perception and autonomy infrastructure. Comfortable in C++ and large distributed environments, Ilia combines low-level systems skill with pragmatic engineering for reliability and observability. An understated strength is his track record of reducing flakiness and OOM risks in critical services, reflecting a focus on operational excellence as well as new feature delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Belarusian State University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (9)
blob-storage10
rust10
blob-store10
testing9
logging9
configuration-management9
database-design8
sql8
git7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/sapling
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ilia primarily contributed to the `facebook/sapling` repository by implementing features related to the blobstore healer and the segmented changelog. They added functionality to record blob sizes, enabling the healer to manage memory effectively and prevent OOM errors. Furthermore, the user introduced features for filtering bookmark log entries by timestamp and enhanced the pushrebase process with the addition of logging pushrebase_distance. They addressed test flakiness by implementing config updates.
control-systemscalablesource-controluser-friendly
Croohand/croohand.github.io
Jun 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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