Ilya Korolev
Software Engineer at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIlya Korolev is a software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems using Java, Go, and Python. He has driven significant scalability gains—most notably a 500% performance improvement through data sharding and clustering while leading analytics engine development at Synopsys—and has productionized microservices on Kubernetes across GCP and AWS. Recently hired by Meta after a brief Principal Engineer stint at Oracle, Ilya combines hands-on backend architecture with practical DevOps expertise from earlier roles at Rakuten and Codiscope. Based in Seattle and armed with an MS in Computer Science from Novosibirsk State University, he brings a pragmatic focus on distributed systems, databases (Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery), and observability that helps teams turn real-time data into actionable insights.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English
Github Skills (49)
debugging10
lldb10
driver10
faunadb10
mi10
parsec9
lr19
sql9
osgi9
ignite9
database9
parser8
research-and-development8
java8
network-server8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JetBrains-Research/CoFRA
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 54 pushes, 13 branches in 8 months
ilya-nozhkin/embox
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:26 PRs, 51 pushes, 20 branches in 11 months
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