Illya Starikov
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIllya Starikov is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable systems, currently ensuring code health and quality at Google after earlier engineering roles and internships at Garmin. A Missouri S&T summa cum laude computer science graduate, he combines solid foundations in algorithms, data structures, and object‑oriented design with interests in AI and mathematics. He’s comfortable across the development lifecycle—writing code, designing tests, and supporting teams—and brings a pragmatic, test‑first approach to maintaining large codebases. Known to prefer vim, Illya’s long-standing passion for computing dates back to MS‑DOS terminals, a curiosity that still drives him to explore low-level details and elegant solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.83/4.00 (Summa Cum Laude), Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.83/4.00 (Summa Cum Laude) at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyHigh School Diploma, 2.7/4.0 (GPA), High School Diploma, 2.7/4.0 (GPA) at Desoto Sr. High School
Github Skills (10)
vim6
xvim5
xcode4
macos3
maze3
keybindings3
solve2
programming-language1
machine-learning1
operating-system1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IllyaStarikov/.dotfiles
Mar 2017 - Nov 2021
🟢 I use Vim btw.
Contributions:136 commits, 4 PRs, 377 pushes in 4 years 9 months
dotfilesvim
IllyaStarikov/camelot
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:46 commits, 1 push in 2 months
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