Summary
Ilia Mikhailov is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering organizations, now serving as CTO at Qliro to grow a Nordic leader in composable payments. He has a proven track record as a founder-CTO who grew Ingrid’s engineering team from 2 to 40, drove product strategy, and moved the company from a feature factory to a true product organization. Ilia combines hands-on engineering, architecture design and strategic outsourcing to deliver at pace, and has repeatedly accelerated delivery by introducing CI/CD, microservices and cloud migrations. Recently he’s been embedding with teams as a fractional CTO and AI workshop facilitator, using AI-assisted workflows to boost developer productivity in healthtech and startups. He balances tactical delivery with executive strategy—recruiting cross-functional teams, onboarding large clients, and aligning roadmaps to business outcomes. Based in Stockholm and educated in Information Management and Technology, he brings an engineer’s curiosity to leadership and a knack for turning operational bottlenecks into scalable systems.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Management and Technology, BS Information Management and Technology at Syracuse University
Russian, English, Swedish