Ilya Lebedev is a seasoned Python leader with 13 years in software engineering and a decade of hands-on Python development combined with team leadership. He has led engineering and CTO roles at multiple companies, most recently as Team Lead at ANNA Money and previously as CTO at medtech and fintech firms, where he built technical strategy, managed up to 30 engineers, and drove architecture and process improvements. Hands-on expertise spans backend systems, Celery-based distributed task processing, observability and debt reduction, and he has contributed notable enhancements to the popular open-source Flower project (improving task monitoring, search, and Python 3 compatibility). Comfortable across the full lifecycle—from choosing the right stack and stabilizing legacy systems to hiring and budgeting—he routinely turns fuzzy business needs into pragmatic technical plans. Based in Moscow and open to relocation, he combines academic rigor from Bauman MSTU with a founder’s product sensibility from co-founding Devman.org. An understated strength is his track record of making complex distributed workflows readable and maintainable for both engineers and product stakeholders.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Специалист Прикладная математика, Специалист Прикладная математика at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery distributed task queue
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Ilya made significant contributions to the `flower` project, focusing on improving the task monitoring and management features. They implemented configurable task columns on the tasks page, enhancing the user interface. They also refactored the template code and added filtering capabilities by args, kwargs, and result. Furthermore, the user addressed Python 3 compatibility and refined the task search functionality by implementing a Github-like search language.
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