Ilya Raykhel
Criminal Investigations
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Raykhel is a seasoned software engineer and algorithmic trader with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems for high-frequency crypto markets and web applications. He designed and ran profitable automated trading systems and arbitrage engines that executed tens of thousands of trades monthly and once ranked him among the largest crypto traders in Japan. As founder of Defitaxes.us, he translated deep domain expertise in cryptocurrency taxation into a free, open-source tool that automates complex transaction classification with a single click. His background spans full-stack development, ML-driven trading models (LSTM and ensemble Keras/TensorFlow networks), and low-latency AWS deployments tuned for exchange connectivity. Now serving in Criminal Investigations at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, he combines practical market experience with regulatory insight—bringing a rare mix of trading intuition, ML skill, and tax domain authority. An unexpected throughline in his career is turning academic AI ideas into profitable and practical products, from resale arbitrage to crypto tax automation.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
ledger9
bitcoin9
blockchain9
parser8
python-requests8
ethereum8
solana8
solidity7
pdf7
http7
extraction7
cryptocurrency7
etherscan7
census-data7
scale7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iraykhel/blockchain-address-database
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
blockchain address database
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 5 months
blockchainaddressdatabase
iraykhel/defitaxes
Apr 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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