Ilya Tikhonov
Senior Software Engineer at Blockchain.com
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Tikhonov is a senior software engineer with six years of focused experience building complex backend systems for startups and scaleups, now contributing to Blockchain.com from London. He combines a product-first mindset with deep hands-on skills in system architecture, cryptography, and cloud infrastructure, having architected GDPR-compliant ledgers and SSI-based identity solutions for the airline industry at Zamna. Ilya has a track record of shipping mission-critical services — from real-time vehicle route optimisation using OR-Tools to high-traffic social network backends and a crypto-fiat exchange platform — and often operates at the intersection of research and production engineering. Comfortable leading small teams, integrating with enterprise booking/check-in systems, and optimising cloud costs, he thrives on unfamiliar domains and rapid learning. Notably, he helped productise verifiable identity and document-recognition systems that enabled integrations with major airlines, reflecting both technical depth and pragmatic product impact.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English
Github Skills (19)
infrastructure9
microservices8
dx7
service-catalog6
backstage6
lua5
neovim4
lastpass4
nvim4
command-line-interface4
neovim-plugin4
vim3
command-line3
cli3
fzf3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ilya-bc/blockchain-exchange-api
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 18 commits, 12 pushes in 1 month
ilya-bc/blockchain-exchange-api-docs
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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