Ilia Menshikov
Engineering Lead at Wise
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlia Menshikov is an engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on experience and a decade in management, currently scaling teams at Wise from London. He builds cross-functional, business-focused teams and shapes technical strategy with a people-first, outcome-driven approach that emphasizes autonomy and measurable impact. At Uzum and VK he launched high-impact products—such as a debit card adopted by 700k users in months and a moderation system that cut publication latency by 35x—while driving architecture changes that enabled large-scale traffic and reliability improvements. Technically grounded in Ruby and Elixir, he contributes to the widely used RuboCop project, improving static analysis rules and specs for the Ruby community. He’s also a practitioner of developer enablement: founding internal backend communities, running manager training, and creating tooling that reduces regressions and release slippage. Ilia combines academic rigor from advanced CS study with pragmatic product delivery and a track record of turning operational pain points into scalable systems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Technology, Master's Degree, Information Technology at Ural State Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Incomplete), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Incomplete), Computer Science at Ural Federal University
Russian, English
Github Skills (8)
linter10
static-code-analysis10
code-formatting10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
test-driven-design9
github7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rubocop/rubocop
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 18 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ilia contributed to the RuboCop project by implementing and modifying code related to code analysis and formatting rules. Their work involved adding a new cop, fixing false negatives, and adding examples to existing cops, specifically focusing on enforcing coding style guidelines. This included modifications to the code and the addition of relevant specifications. These commits directly improve RuboCop's capabilities as a Ruby static code analyzer.
linterstyle-guidecode-formattercode-analyzerruby
unkmas/unkmas-cv
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years
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