Ilya Shabanov
Founder at EffortlessAcademic.com
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolIlya Shabanov is a founder and tech-savvy researcher with nine years of professional experience who builds tools and training to help academics use note-taking strategies, novel tools, and AI to accelerate research productivity. He founded EffortlessAcademic.com after co-founding NeuroNation and a career in web and mobile product leadership, bringing a rare blend of startup grit, product sensibility, and hands-on development (WordPress, React). Now finishing a PhD in computational forest ecology at Victoria University of Wellington, he uniquely bridges rigorous academic research and practical digital workflows. Having helped 3,000+ academics through courses and webinars, he combines pedagogical clarity with technical depth and a track record of shipping user-focused products. An engineer by training (Dipl. Ing. IT, cum laude, TU Berlin), he often applies software-first thinking to ecological questions and researcher productivity challenges.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology at Victoria University of WellingtonDipl. Ing., IT, 1,0 with distinction cum laude, Dipl. Ing., IT, 1,0 with distinction cum laude at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German, Russian, French
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Github Skills (35)
graphql10
react10
fastest9
gatsby9
frontend9
compiler8
ensembles8
static-site-generator8
wordpress7
background-image6
redux6
zepto5
pagespeed5
webpack5
imputation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lnilya/harley
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
HARLEY (Human Aided Recognition of LLPS Ensembles in Yeast), a customizable software for detection and quantification of stress granules in S.cerevisiae.
Contributions:139 commits, 16 PRs, 113 pushes in 6 months
harleyyeastrecognitioncustomizableensembles
lnilya/sammie
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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