Ilya Zayats
CTO at Factorial
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Zayats is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 16 years building and scaling product-driven engineering teams across Europe. As CTO at Factorial and former CTO of Camaloon and Redbooth, he has repeatedly led platform rewrites, operational transformations and product pivots that delivered measurable business outcomes—from multi-million monthly sales to significant performance improvements. He founded and sold Planarium, grew Paced inside Palta to address productivity and wellbeing for busy professionals, and combines hands-on engineering with product and growth instincts. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he has a track record of introducing modern client-side tech (React/Redux), CI/CD and data-informed roadmaps while growing teams and processes. Based in Barcelona with an automation engineering background from ITMO University, he blends startup grit with system-level thinking to reduce time-to-value and prevent burnout through better product design.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Automation technology, Master Automation technology at ITMO University
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
somebody32/high-performance-redux
May 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
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