Ilya Zhitomirskiy
Staff Accountant at Terrazas & Company Cpa, P.c.
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Zhitomirskiy is a detail-oriented Staff Accountant with 15 years of experience delivering bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, and financial reporting for small to mid-size clients across multiple states. He combines technical accounting proficiency—preparing individual and business returns, sales tax filings, financial statements, and payroll tax remittances—with hands-on practice supervising and training junior staff. Beyond accounting, Ilya has a long-standing role as a sports official, where split-second decision-making and clear stakeholder communication sharpen his analytical and conflict-resolution skills. Multilingual in English, Russian, and German, he pairs an MS in Accounting and Business with practical experience migrating and streamlining payroll systems for dozens of companies. Notably, he has contributed back-end improvements to the privacy-focused Diaspora open-source network, demonstrating an interest in technical problem solving beyond traditional accounting.
15 years of coding experience
The Catholic University of AmericaHigh School Diploma and Certificate of Merit, High School Diploma and Certificate of Merit at Walter Johnson High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Accounting and Business/Management, Master of Science - MS, Accounting and Business/Management at University of Maryland Global CampusPsychology, Psychology at University of MarylandArlington High School, LaGrangeville, NY
English, Russian, German, church slavonic, Ukrainian
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
csv10
rails10
csvhelper10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
postgresql9
decentralization8
federated8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Nov 2010 - Nov 2011
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ilya primarily contributed to back-end functionality, focusing on improvements to the email regular expression and adding features related to CSV generation. They also made changes to the Salmon protocol implementation, adding namespace constraints and altering the data type to plain XML. Their work extended to refactoring the salmon models, and integrating new weekly user stats.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
vncgregorio/diaspora
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:13 commits in 7 days
social-networknetworkingsocial-networkingcontextualdistributed
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