Ilya Grebnov
Distinguished Engineer & Deputy CISO, Business & Industry Copilot at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIlya Grebnov is a Distinguished Engineer and security leader with 15 years of experience building large-scale cloud and enterprise systems, currently leading Microsoft's Copilot Cowork team to deliver enterprise-grade agentic AI across Microsoft 365. He combines deep architecture and platform expertise—from Azure Resource Manager to Power Platform and Dynamics 365—with hands-on product leadership that aligns engineering, security, compliance, and governance for regulated customers. As Deputy CISO for Business & Industry Copilot and former Trust & Quality Architect, he uniquely blends offensive and defensive security thinking into product design to make long-running, multi-step automation safe for enterprises. Ilya previously founded a cloud-native monitoring startup acquired by Microsoft and has a strong background in high-performance computing from his master's studies. He is based in Kirkland, WA, and is known for translating complex distributed-systems challenges into auditable, production-ready solutions. A pragmatic technologist, he focuses on delivering measurable trust and reliability in emerging AI-driven workflows.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science, High Performance Computing, Masters in Computer Science, High Performance Computing at Ivanovo State Power University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (114)
microsoft-azure10
burrows-wheeler-transform10
compression10
dotnet10
azure10
high-performance10
json10
csharp10
sorting10
suffix-array10
microsoft10
indexing10
edit-distance10
factorization10
compressor9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IlyaGrebnov/libbsc
May 2011 - Dec 2022
High performance block-sorting data compression library
Contributions:7 releases, 69 commits, 6 PRs in 11 years 9 months
compressionindexingsortingcompression-libraryperformance
IlyaGrebnov/bsc-m03
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Experimental block sorting compressor based on M03 context aware compression algorithm
Contributions:9 releases, 14 commits, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
context-awarecompressioncompressorsortingcompression-algorithm
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