Ilya Kuznetsov
Software Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Kuznetsov is a pragmatic software engineer with 16 years of experience building low-latency backends, distributed systems, and user-facing tooling, currently shipping at Spotify from Stockholm. His career spans C++, Java, Go, Node/TypeScript and front-end frameworks, with deep hands-on work in performance-sensitive services (2GIS), lab automation and network testing products (Spirent), and cloud orchestration integrations. He moves comfortably between systems and UI layers, having led technical efforts to unify multi-product frontends and decouple high-throughput backends from single points of failure. Known for making trade-offs that prioritize measurable gains, he blends meticulous optimization skills with pragmatic leadership gained through repeated technical lead roles. An NSU-trained engineer, he brings a steady focus on reliability, deployability and squeezing latency out of complex stacks.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, IT, Bachelor, IT at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
English, Russian
Github Skills (42)
javascript9
facebook9
react9
frontend9
deprecated8
user-interface8
declarative8
google-cloud-platform8
testing8
typescript7
lint7
router7
google-cloud-build7
react-forms7
mercurial6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
worklez/BlondeSweeper
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
worklez/avoid.js
Mar 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:9 commits in 2 days
tinyjavascriptjavascript-wrapper
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