Summary
Ilia Shishkov is a Senior R&D Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance backend systems and databases, currently contributing to Pangolin RDBMS at Sberbank-Technology. He has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices and led small teams at Yandex.Eats, pairing hands-on C++ and Python development with mentorship and hiring—having conducted over 200 technical interviews. His background includes low-level, high-throughput systems work (browser core, real-time fraud and search traffic pipelines) and early-career GPU-accelerated tomographic reconstruction, reflecting strong systems and performance instincts. Ilia combines academic rigor (Candidate of Technical Sciences) with practical product delivery, often shaping testing and onboarding practices to boost team velocity. He thrives on translating research into customer-facing database features and improving developer productivity across the stack. Notably, his career spans both consumer-scale services and specialized scientific software, giving him a rare blend of breadth and depth.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Candidate of technical sciences Разработка программного обеспечения, Candidate of technical sciences Разработка программного обеспечения at Orel State Technical University (OrelSTU)
Русский, Английский