Summary
Ilya Kozhevnikov is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager based in London with 18 years in software development and over a decade in technical leadership, currently leading the Software Developer Platform team for Apple Services. He has a proven track record delivering customer-facing, cost-effective, and highly scalable systems across startups, scale-ups, and Big Tech—most recently managing commerce and fulfilment domains at Spotify and Prime Video teams at Amazon. Ilya blends hands-on engineering and people leadership, building high-performance teams that bridge product, tooling, QA and DevOps. He also founded a knowledge-management SaaS to improve onboarding, reflecting a practical founder’s perspective on developer experience. Known for driving automation and quality at scale, he brings both strategic vision and an operator’s attention to reliable delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Internet Computing, Bachelor of Science - BS Internet Computing at The Manchester Metropolitan University