Ilya Rafailov
Senior Software Engineer at PashaPay
Bar, Montenegro
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Rafailov is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience delivering high-throughput backend systems, primarily in Java and cloud-native environments. He has led teams and guilds, hiring and mentoring engineers while designing cross-company loyalty and commission systems that process millions of transactions monthly. Comfortable across Kubernetes, Spring, Postgres, RabbitMQ and Redis, he has a strong track record of migrating monoliths to microservices and squeezing large performance gains (e.g., a 70% catalog calculation improvement). Ilya balances hands-on implementation with architectural leadership—recently guiding ecosystem maturity at PashaPay while previously serving as CTO at a startup building LLM-serving infrastructure. Based in Bar, Montenegro, he brings a pragmatic, team-centered approach and a knack for turning complex payment and loyalty requirements into reliable, scalable production services.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 72, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 72 at ITMO University
English, Russian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Azerbaijani, Serbian
Github Skills (37)
jwt-authentication10
jsonwebtoken10
spring-security-jwt10
spring-boot-security10
authentication9
java9
spring-boot9
jwt9
auth-service9
auth8
spring8
spring-security8
smtp8
imap7
security7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
white-bear-team/MuEditor
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
IA Mu Editor
Contributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
editor
SanoranX/SanoranX
Sep 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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