Ilya Kamens
Cofounder & CTO at Sunny
France
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Kamens is a Cofounder & CTO with 11 years of hands-on experience building consumer and infrastructure software that scales to hundreds of thousands of users and hundreds of millions in managed funds. He helped grow Propel from its early commits to a product serving nearly 100k MAU and processing over $500M/year, co-leading engineering and scaling teams and systems. Earlier roles at Mixpanel combined product and systems work—shipping features like Autotrack and owning Export API infrastructure—demonstrating fluency across front-end, backend, and cloud-native tooling (GCP, Kubernetes, Go). His open-source contributions include improvements to the official Mixpanel JavaScript client, touching autotrack and core counting logic. Based in France, he brings a founder’s mindset to product-driven engineering and a track record of turning analytic and fintech challenges into reliable, production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
License III Informatique, License III Informatique at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Dickinson CollegeSummer Course Mathematics, Summer Course Mathematics at University of ConnecticutSummer Course Computer Science, Summer Course Computer Science at Columbia University
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
mixpanel10
javascript10
sdk10
analytics10
browser9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mixpanel/mixpanel-js
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Official Mixpanel JavaScript Client Library
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 32 commits, 21 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ilya's contributions focused on updating the Mixpanel JavaScript client library. They implemented new counting mechanisms within the core JavaScript file and also made updates to the minified JavaScript file. Furthermore, the user was also involved in autotrack functionalities and made build-related adjustments across multiple files within the project.
analyticsjavascript-clientbrowserclient-libraryjavascript
ilyakamens/dotfiles
Jan 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:98 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
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