Illya Chekrygin
Senior Staff Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIllya Chekrygin is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Seattle with 11+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, now driving cloud-native reliability at Apple. He specializes in Go, Kubernetes (self‑hosted and managed flavors), Kubernetes extensions and operators, and CI/CD and container infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Azure. A founding engineer at Upbound and senior maintainer on the prominent Crossplane project, Illya combines production-grade controller development with provider integrations that enable dynamic provisioning across clouds. His background spans streaming at HBO, data platforms at zulily, and high-throughput distributed ETL and revenue systems at Yahoo and Right Media, giving him deep operational and architectural experience. Certified as both CKA and CKAD, he brings a pragmatic balance of hands-on coding, infrastructure automation, and long-term maintainability. He often focuses on subtle backend and credential-management improvements that keep multi-cloud control planes secure and resilient in production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Nova Southeastern UniversityBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University
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Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
cloud-computing10
storage10
cloud-infrastructure10
resource-management10
gcp10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-services10
terraform9
cicd9
apidoc9
control-center9
aws9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
crossplane/crossplane
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
The Cloud Native Control Plane
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:197 commits, 112 PRs, 49 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Illya primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of the project, specifically by adding and modifying functionality related to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) credentials, resource classes, and resource claims. Their work included implementing features to support dynamic provisioning of GCP storage buckets, updating the core controller to manage bucket secret creation and ensure consistency with resource references. The user also refactored code and updated various dependency versions, ensuring code maintainability and adapting to ongoing rebase changes.
containerscloud-computingserverlesscloudmulticloud
crossplane-contrib/provider-aws
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Crossplane AWS Provider
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:146 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Illya contributed to the AWS provider, implementing credential handling for GCP. They focused on creating, deleting, and managing resource instances, including Kubernetes clusters, and database instances. The user also updated dependencies, generated code, and refactored existing code to standardize code structure and enhance reusability, demonstrating contributions across both backend and cloud infrastructure domains.
providerterraformawsterraform-modulecrossplane
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