Ilya Verbin
Lead Software Engineer at Tarantool
Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Verbin is a Lead Software Engineer based in Moscow with 18 years of experience building reliable, performance-sensitive back-end systems. Currently leading engineering at Tarantool, he contributes directly to the popular in-memory database project, focusing on stability, transaction and fiber subsystems, logging, and edge-case bug fixes that improve production resilience. His background includes senior systems engineering roles at Parallels and Intel, where he developed compiler- and infrastructure-level expertise starting from an early internship. Trained in applied mathematics and cybernetics at MEPhI, he blends rigorous theoretical foundations with pragmatic engineering to tackle concurrency and data-consistency challenges. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who prefers fixing core issues and refactoring critical pathways over cosmetic features, yielding measurable reliability gains.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematical and Software Support of Computer Complexes, Systems, and Networks, Mathematical and Software Support of Computer Complexes, Systems, and Networks at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
Russian, English, German
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Github Skills (21)
back-end-development10
databases10
c1110
c1710
lua10
foreign-keys10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
transaction9
logging9
performance-optimization8
nvidia6
openmp6
cuda6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tarantool/tarantool
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Get your data in RAM. Get compute close to data. Enjoy the performance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:537 reviews, 124 commits, 132 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Tarantool database project. Their work involved addressing crashes related to Lua interpreter options and resolving issues with foreign key constraints, including those referencing the same space and involving nullable fields. They also refactored core components related to fiber management, signal handling, and transaction handling, likely improving the system's stability and performance. Furthermore, the user made improvements in areas like logging and handling of binary data within the system.
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Gumix/digital-image-processing
Feb 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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