Ilya Silvestrov
Software Engineer at Obsidian Systems LLC
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Silvestrov is a backend-focused software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and more than twenty years of hands-on work across distributed systems, reliable backend services, Android, and legacy re-engineering. He has driven production reliability and testing at scale in organizations from Google (integration testing for Google TV) to Box (stabilizing notification services) and now contributes at Obsidian Systems while based in Lisbon. Comfortable in complex domains like finance and insurance from past roles at Deutsche Bank and Guidewire, he blends pragmatic software design with deep systems experience. His background in physics from Novosibirsk State University underpins a methodical, analytical approach to solving hard engineering problems and modernizing legacy codebases.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at Novosibirsk State University (NSU)
Github Skills (23)
gradle9
gradle-plugin9
aws8
java8
amazon-web-services8
gosu7
time-management6
text-based6
jvm5
jvm-languages4
functional-reactive-programming3
callback3
haskell3
programming-language3
reactive2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tellary/anki-md
Dec 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
tellary/dockerdev
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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