Summary
Illia Izotov is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-availability, cost-efficient systems across Java/Kotlin, C#/.NET and Unix/Linux environments. He has led cross-functional teams at StackAdapt and Amazon to design scalable services that cut data duplication by ~95%, improved p99 latency from 800ms to 250ms, and delivered self-serve features that reduced operational load by 80%. Comfortable with infrastructure as code and automation, he launched a new AWS region in under a week and drove a datastore redesign that reduced costs tenfold. A pragmatic mentor and coach, Illia routinely shapes code quality, testing practices and onboarding workflows—previously replacing week-long developer setups with Docker-based local testing that sped testing >15x. Based in the Greater Edmonton area, he pairs deep systems thinking with hands-on execution and a knack for turning messy legacy platforms into modular, maintainable products.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Master of Computer Science Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
French, English, Ukrainian