Summary
Ilya Epifanov is a Software Architect with 16 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, resource-efficient systems across fintech, big data and embedded domains. Based in the Netherlands, he frequently chooses Rust for low-footprint, massively distributed deployments and has hands-on experience building real-time data platforms using Spark, Kafka and Elasticsearch at scale. He has led teams and transformed delivery processes as CTO and engineering lead, cutting time-to-market, instituting CI/CD and shifting product practices toward continuous refinement. Notably, he rebuilt logging/processing pipelines and implemented a lightweight profiling solution for ARMv8 embedded Linux, demonstrating a pragmatic blend of systems-level engineering and architect-level design. His background in computational mathematics informs a measured approach to performance, observability and data modeling.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computational and Applied Mathematics, BSc, Computational and Applied Mathematics at YarSU
Russian, English, Dutch