Ilia Sidorenko
Chief Technology Officer at STQRY
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlia Sidorenko is a technology leader and hands-on CTO with 13 years of experience building products from startup to scale, currently leading STQRY from Rochester, NY. He blends engineering leadership with active coding—contributing C++ gameplay client improvements and front-end browser-extension work—demonstrating comfort across systems, UI, and real-time interaction. Ilia founded and led Turnout App, bringing entrepreneurial experience to product-focused engineering and cross-functional team building. His career spans progressive technical roles from intern to CTO, underpinned by a Computer and Information Sciences degree from Auckland University of Technology. Known for pragmatic delivery, he emphasizes improving the human condition through technology and often moves between strategic architecture and nitty-gritty bug fixes himself.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree Computer and Information Sciences at Auckland University of TechnologyHigh School Physics Calculus Digital Technologies English Statistics, High School Physics Calculus Digital Technologies English Statistics at Selwyn College
English
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
c-language10
sdl10
browser-extension10
chrome-extension10
opera-extension10
webextension10
cprogramming-language10
coffeescript9
multiplayer9
ui-design9
multiplayer-game9
opengl9
html8
css7
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
wseagar/eight-dollars
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
A browser extension that shows twitter blue vs real verified users
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 71 commits, 9 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ilia primarily worked on a browser extension that displays Twitter Blue vs. real verified users. Their contributions focused on modifying the user interface to visually differentiate between verified and blue-verified accounts. They refactored code, improved element selection, and implemented dynamic updates to handle changes in the Twitter UI, including handling edge cases like those found in Twitter Spaces. They also worked on adding advanced search options.
blueverifiedbrowserverified-usersfirefox-addon
yvt/openspades
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
Compatible client of Ace of Spades 0.75
Role in this project:Game Developer & C++ Programmer
Game Developer & C++ ProgrammerContributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 75 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ilia primarily contributed to the client-side code of the game, focusing on features related to the player's perspective and input handling. They fixed spectator mouse controls, updated and modified the game's existing code for spectator modes, and added a first-person view option. Additionally, the user added functionality to the project, including a script to generate icons for the Linux operating system and added a command to the Gui to show/hide the startup screen.
gamespadesc-plus-plusaction-gamemulti-platform
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