Ilya Maier
Teaching Assistant at Princeton University
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIlya Maier is a software engineer and teaching assistant with eight years of experience building user-focused products and teaching computer science at ETH Zürich and Princeton. He combines strong backend and Android engineering—demonstrated by contributions to an AnitaB.org mentorship backend and production apps with millions of downloads—with academic depth (M.S.E. at Princeton, top grades at ETH). Ilya excels at turning real user needs into practical solutions, from a student-focused geometry app to church-finder tools for Fiverr clients, and engineered automated debugging and release tooling at Adobe to speed diagnostics. Beyond code, he leads tutorials, develops course materials, and runs inclusion and tutoring initiatives, reflecting a rare blend of technical rigor and people-first impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 5.8/6.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 5.8/6.0 at ETH ZürichMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Princeton University
English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
475reputation
16kreached
21answers
3questions
Github Skills (17)
python10
apidoc10
flask-ask10
api10
backend10
flask10
swagger9
openapi8
database-design8
sql7
time-complexity6
pygame6
bubble-sort6
android6
kotlin6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
anitab-org/mentorship-backend
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Mentorship System is an application that matches women in tech to mentor each other, on career development, through 1:1 relations during a certain period of time. This is the backend of this system.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 18 PRs, 44 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily focused on back-end development tasks, including bug fixes, feature implementation, and adding API functionalities. Their contributions addressed user authentication and password management, including validation. They also added search functionality to the user listing API and implemented database table for task comments and endpoints. These changes align with the project's back-end nature, enhancing user interaction and data management.
pythonflaskflask-restxmarshmallowopenapi
xatuke/dormir
Jan 2019 - Feb 2024
helps me get better sleep
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 comments in 5 years 2 months
androiddark-thememit-licenseui
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