Ilya Penyaev is a staff engineer and seasoned technology leader based in Berlin with over a decade of experience building and shipping full-stack SaaS products. He has moved through hands-on roles from backend and frontend development to team lead, director of engineering and now staff engineer, giving him both low-level technical fluency and product-minded systems oversight. At Fingerprint he progressed from Core API Team Lead to Director of Platform Engineering and now focuses on platform-scale engineering problems that directly improve end-user experience. He enjoys the tangible impact of small fixes that ripple into better user lives and keeps his problem-solving sharp through competitive coding. Trained as an engineer in cryogenic machinery, he brings a distinctive analytical mindset to software architecture and cross-functional collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Cryogenic machinery & conditioning, Engineer's degree Cryogenic machinery & conditioning at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Contributions:3 releases, 8 commits, 6 pushes in 7 months
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