Ilya Sherman
Software Engineering Manager at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Sherman is a product-focused Software Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems on Chrome at Google. He blends deep academic training in algorithms and computational linguistics from Stanford (BS and MS) with hands-on engineering across browser internals, scalable caching, and NLP research. At Google he leads engineering work on the Chrome browser, drawing on earlier infrastructure experience at Facebook where he removed major memcache scaling bottlenecks. He has a track record of mentoring and organizing teams from his time as Head Course Assistant at Stanford and running interactive seminars that improved student debugging and design skills. Comfortable moving between research and production, he also implemented massively parallel NLP algorithms during a Stanford lab internship. Based in Mountain View, he brings a pragmatic product sensibility to complex systems engineering problems.
14 years of coding experience
MS, Computer Science; algorithms and theory, MS, Computer Science; algorithms and theory at Stanford University
Russian, Spanish, English
Github Skills (49)
chromium10
chrome-extension10
devtools10
chrome10
gstreamer9
instrumentation9
polymer9
collaboration9
vaapi9
react8
web-components8
webkit8
wpe8
youtube8
cdp8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ishermandom/bga-42
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Texas 42 domino game implementation for BoardGameArena
Contributions:6 reviews, 31 PRs, 175 pushes in 5 months
gametilesettilemapboardgamearenatexas
ishermandom/skydoc
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
documentation-generatorskylark
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