Ilia Semenov
Founder at cloudthread
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorIlia Semenov is a San Francisco–based founder and FinOps expert with 11 years of experience designing and operationalizing cloud cost management across enterprises and startups. He led FinOps data engineering and internal cost systems at Lyft pre-IPO and shaped cloud cost strategy at EA, then co-founded Cloudthread (YC S21), which was acquired by FinOut after building engineer-friendly cost management tooling. Ilia combines product leadership and hands-on engineering to turn opaque cloud bills into actionable product-level insights, and he’s now building an AI-driven startup in stealth. His background spans analytics, systems, and business—MBA from INSEAD and advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and St. Petersburg State University—giving him a rare blend of technical depth and go-to-market savvy.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
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dynamodb10
rds10
elasticache10
aws9
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powerbi7
barchart5
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jekyll1
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ilia-semenov/ilia-semenov
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
cloudthread/cloudthread
Mar 2021 - May 2022
Cloudthread intro.
Contributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cloud-costsengineersfinops
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