Ilya Tsarev
Engineering Manager at Compass
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIlya Tsarev is an action-oriented Engineering Manager with an MBA and over 17 years in technology and finance, currently leading engineering at Compass out of San Francisco. He combines hands-on cloud and full‑stack engineering (Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes) with people-first management, having scaled and coached teams up to 12 engineers and guided 10+ engineers through promotions and role transitions. Ilya has a track record of turning troubled projects into business wins—recovering a Cisco engagement to add $1M ARR and delivering a $2.5M IoT/AWS solution that cut client utility bills by ~10%. He excels at simplifying complexity and improving delivery processes (virtual squads, CI/CD, situational leadership) to double release velocity, reduce bugs, and slash spam by 99% in production incidents. Comfortable at the intersection of product, operations, and customer success, he repeatedly drives measurable product usage and ARR improvements while preserving engineering culture and team growth.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at Hult International Business SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Yaroslavl Demidov State UniversityCertificate Security Civil Liberties and Terrorism, Certificate Security Civil Liberties and Terrorism at Stanford FSI Initiative on Distance Learning in Yaroslavl State University
English, Russian, French
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Github Skills (34)
payment-service10
payment-gateway9
paypal9
sdk9
braintree9
payment9
localize9
rest-api8
php8
square8
translation7
dsa7
internationalization7
localization7
gettext7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IOT-DSA/dists
Jan 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 19 pushes in 2 years 7 months
dsadata-structuresdistributionscpp
IOT-DSA/docs
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes in 1 year
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