Ilya Sorokin
Founder & Lead Developer at Digital Twins
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Sorokin is a founder and lead developer with a decade of hands-on experience building distributed systems, AI-driven products, and high-throughput services across finance, gaming, e-commerce, and digital twins. With a PhD-level background in theoretical and mathematical physics from MIPT, he blends rigorous quantitative thinking with pragmatic engineering in languages from C# and Java to Scala, Python and Haskell. He founded iLiveMyLife, an AI-enhanced personal and team knowledge-graph platform featuring 3D graph exploration, GraphQL subscriptions and event-sourced microservices, and has led teams delivering complex cloud and real-time systems using Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes and CQRS/Event Store patterns. Past roles include building productivity frameworks at EA, a proprietary HFT engine backed by extensive tick-level backtesting, and multiple end-to-end product launches from single-person startups to 10-person teams. Known for pushing architectural boundaries, he brings a rare mix of deep math, functional programming fluency and full-stack product instincts to turn research-grade ideas into production-grade platforms.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
Github Skills (4)
architecture8
java7
transactional7
microservices5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iLiveMyLife/iLiveMyLife.io
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Landing page for iLiveMyLife.io
Contributions:3 reviews, 98 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
iLiveMyLife/payments
May 2022 - Jul 2023
Payments Node API
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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