Ilya Razenshteyn
Co-Founder And CTO at Pyte
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolIlya Razenshteyn is a co-founder and CTO with 11 years of experience bridging rigorous theoretical research and production-grade systems for massive data and privacy-sensitive machine learning. A two-time IOI gold medalist and 2010 ACM ICPC world finals gold medalist, he earned a PhD in Computer Science from MIT with an award-winning dissertation and has 36 publications across top venues (NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/STOC/FOCS/SODA, etc.). His career spans research roles at Microsoft, Columbia, and multiple top internships (Google, IBM, Yandex), and today he leads engineering and product at Pyte, focusing on algorithms, Rust, and performance optimization. He’s published practical breakthroughs (covered in Quanta) on sorting complex information and brings a rare combination of deep theory, systems performance expertise, and startup leadership. Outside work he’s serious about endurance running, reflecting the long-term stamina he applies to hard technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLomonosov Moscow State University
Stackoverflow
153reputation
2kreached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (41)
benchmark10
docker10
nearest-neighbors10
locality-sensitive-hashing10
nearest-neighbor-search10
cosine-similarity10
lsh10
python9
rfc9
transform9
rust8
cudnn7
database7
cuda6
boost6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FALCONN-LIB/FFHT
Dec 2015 - Jul 2019
Fast Fast Hadamard Transform
Contributions:2 releases, 9 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 7 months
databasetransform
ilyaraz/blog
May 2020 - Jul 2022
:sparkling_heart: Things I care about :sparkling_heart:
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.