Ilya Ganelin
Principal Engineer at Boundless Games
Emeryville, California, United States
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Top SchoolIlya Ganelin is a Principal Engineer and technical leader with 11+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and democratizing AI across organizations. At Stripe he led the Ledger Platform tracking billions of daily events and now drives AI strategy and execution for the 1,000+ person CFO and GTM organizations, delivering agent platforms and tooling that have saved millions and reclaimed tens of thousands of hours. He combines deep systems and ML expertise—contributing to Apache Spark and serving as a PMC member of Apache Apex—with a product-minded approach that empowers non-engineers via no-code/low-code agent builders. Known for breaking through organizational barriers, he blends meticulous, first-principles engineering with rapid prototyping to move ideas to production in minutes rather than months. Outside of finance systems he pursues entrepreneurial and creative work as founder of a games studio, reflecting a rare mix of backend rigor and product creativity.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering: Systems, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering: Systems at University of MichiganDouble B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Double B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (83)
notebook10
apache-spark10
python10
hadoop10
cloud-native10
actor-model10
concurrency10
streaming10
reactive10
beam10
r10
big-data10
akka10
scale10
akka-streams10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ilganeli/spark
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:311 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
ilganeli/EFG_Designs
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Repo for website
Contributions:13 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year
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