Ilya Kaminsky
Solopreneur at Speech is Cheap
Columbus, Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Kaminsky is a seasoned software leader and solopreneur with 13 years of experience building full-stack products, data platforms, and ad-tech systems. He has led engineering and R&D teams at Gimbal and Automattic, shipping scalable services, native mobile apps, and self-service analytics pipelines that won new business and reduced operational costs. As a co-founder of WordCoach and current founder of Speech is Cheap, he mixes hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership to turn complex requirements into customer-ready tools. He brings deep experience across React/TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, analytics (Apache Druid), and CI/CD, and has a track record of templating and automating workflows to cut effort and speed delivery. Notably, he has repeatedly driven privacy-forward features and built processes that reduced custom work requests by 95% while increasing throughput tenfold. Based in Columbus, Kansas, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with pragmatic architecture and a habit of shipping measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration, MBA Business Administration at California State University, NorthridgeB.S. Business Administration, B.S. Business Administration at DeVry University
English, Russian, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
587reputation
1.7mreached
4answers
3questions
Github Skills (200)
package-control10
duplicates10
traffic10
javascript10
sublime-text10
wordpress10
gulp10
duplicate10
api10
typescript10
pug10
nodejs10
directions10
gulp-plugin10
redux10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ilyakam/gulp-pug-linter
Apr 2016 - Feb 2021
Gulp plugin to lint Jade or Pug files
Contributions:16 releases, 114 commits, 98 PRs in 4 years 10 months
gulp-pluginlintgulppugjade
ilyakam/RemoveDuplicateLines
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Remove duplicate lines from a file (Keywords: remove duplicates, delete duplicates, dedup)
Contributions:6 releases, 37 commits, 37 PRs in 2 years 8 months
duplicatelinesduplicate-linesdedupduplicates
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