Ilya Chekalsky is a founder and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building SaaS and AI platforms that scale to millions of users. He has grown and led cross-functional teams of 30+, shipped PB-scale distributed systems, cost-efficient cloud architectures, and production AI pipelines with strong CI/CD and reliability practices. Product-led and data-driven, Ilya has taken ventures from zero to multi-million euro revenue while running 200+ A/B experiments and aligning diverse stakeholders. Based in Amsterdam and co-founder of Neural-Love, he combines hands-on technical depth with a pragmatic, healthy engineering culture mindset. An early specialist-trained engineer, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with entrepreneurial execution.
12 years of coding experience
Diploma with Honours, Diploma with Honours at Ufa IT College (UKSIVT)
Specialist, Specialist at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Contributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 132 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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