Summary
Ilya 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)