Ilya Pekelny
Sr. Software Engineer at IRONSCALES
Santana, Portugal
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SeniorIlya Pekelny is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, production-grade systems across fintech, IoT, ad-tech, and AI SaaS. He excels at system-level thinking—translating business goals into clear architecture, data models, and end-to-end implementations while making trade-offs explicit and favoring simple, robust solutions. Ilya has led core architecture and pipeline work for clients like Mars and Goodyear, rebuilt and documented legacy platforms with high user counts, and helped scale an ML-driven recruitment product through acquisition. Recently a founding engineer for an AI logistics SaaS and now at IRONSCALES, he blends product-minded ownership with pragmatic engineering to reduce complexity and improve reliability. Based in Santana, Portugal, he pairs deep hands-on technical delivery with strong communication and collaboration skills. An understated strength: he routinely turns undocumented, fragile systems into well-documented, maintainable platforms that teams can confidently evolve.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Russian, Ukrainian, English
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Github contributions (5)
I159/buddy_config
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Decoupled and lazy library to get settings from an environment variables.
Contributions:21 PRs, 45 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years
environment-variablesconfigurationdecoupledsettingsvariables
I159/go_deep
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:149 commits, 16 PRs, 344 pushes in 5 months
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