Summary
Ilya Sharonov is an engineering manager with 10+ years of experience leading and scaling cross-functional software teams across e-commerce and enterprise domains, currently driving engineering at Zalando from Dortmund. He has a strong track record building organizations and delivery processes—having led 120+ engineers, introduced unified CI/CD pipelines, halved error rates through automated testing, and cut time-to-market by 20%. Comfortable both in hands-on architecture and people leadership, he has repeatedly delivered on-time product releases and designed front-end architectures and APIs for complex systems. Ilya combines metrics-driven management with practical process improvements (e.g., tightening estimation deviation to 10%), and brings uncommon breadth from early web and HR systems to large-scale marketplace platforms.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Specialist, Master's Degree, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Specialist at Tambov State Technical University
Master’s Degree, Information Systems Architecture, Master’s Degree, Information Systems Architecture at Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI)
English, Russian, German