Summary
Ilya Prudnikov is a Technical Lead and Senior Software Engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and nearly two decades of industry experience, currently building cloud-native platforms from Limassol, Cyprus. For the past eight years he has focused on developer-facing platforms and tooling—leading the design and GA launch of a global managed Kubernetes service and improving observability, scalability and latency for mission-critical systems. He champions Golang adoption for low-latency domains, proving parity with C++ and driving a 50% faster time-to-market while mentoring and growing engineering teams. His background across DevOps, solution architecture and project management enables him to deliver complex products end-to-end and influence cross-team standards. Less obvious: he combines deep research training with hands-on systems work, routinely contributing improvements back to open-source components used in production.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Independent Researcher
ITIL Service Manager, ITIL Service Manager at Fox IT, London
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)