Ilya Sayakhov
Development Team Lead at Emerging Travel Group
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Sayakhov is a Development Team Lead with over a decade of experience building and leading backend-focused web systems, currently driving engineering at Emerging Travel Group. He has a strong track record of architecting core services, modernizing legacy systems, and integrating compliance-critical components like KYC at scale from roles at Exness and PandaDoc. Skilled at both hands-on engineering and people leadership, Ilya routinely blends technical decision-making with hiring, mentoring, and creating personalized growth plans for his teams. His background spans fintech-grade reliability, real-time service architectures, and a side interest in game development that informs creative problem-solving. Based in Moscow, he brings a pragmatic, technology-forward approach and a consistent focus on testable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management of organization (Financial management), Bachelor's degree, Management of organization (Financial management) at Tomsk State University
Github Skills (3)
telegram-bot7
python5
telegram4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
isayakhov/duplicate-stickers-remover-bot
Feb 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 releases, 12 pushes, 13 tags in 2 years 6 months
isayakhov/duty-schedule-bot
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Bot sends into your Telegram group who is on duty today, tomorrow and also sends schedule for the next week.
Contributions:10 releases, 3 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
telegram-botpythondutybottelegram-group
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