Ivan Ilichev
Engineering Manager, Guarded Containers at Chainguard
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolIvan Ilichev is an engineering manager and infrastructure specialist with two decades of experience scaling cloud-native products, teams, and mission-critical observability systems. He has led container monitoring and security efforts at Datadog and now manages Guarded Containers at Chainguard, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, SRE practices, storage, and containerized infrastructure. Equally comfortable in early-stage startups and large organizations, he has a track record of shipping foundational features—such as initial security/compliance work for Datadog’s Security Agent—and contributing to widely used open-source projects like the Datadog Agent and integrations core. A proven people leader, he has repeatedly promoted and developed engineers while driving high-cardinality, production-grade solutions that balance rapid iteration with long-term reliability. Based in Greater Boston, he combines hands-on backend and DevOps work with product-focused engineering leadership and a knack for turning complex observability challenges into practical, scalable systems.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electronics and Radio Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electronics and Radio Engineering at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University)
Russian
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
observability10
integrate10
data-collection10
python10
secret-management10
process-management10
intergration10
integrations10
secrets-manager10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
datadog10
collections10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/datadog-agent
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Main repository for Datadog Agent
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:567 reviews, 248 commits, 248 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the Datadog Agent's backend infrastructure, focusing on enhancements to the container and process monitoring capabilities. Their work involved modifying the core logic for collecting and reporting container and process metrics, including optimizations to improve efficiency and accuracy. Additionally, the user implemented features for secrets management and introduced improvements to the command-line interface (CLI) for interacting with the agent, demonstrating DevOps-related expertise. Several changes were also focused on testing and improving compatibility with Windows environments.
golangdatadog-agentagentobservabilitypmm
DataDog/integrations-core
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Core integrations of the Datadog Agent
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 18 commits, 22 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to improving the Datadog Agent's integration core, focusing on metric collection and transformation. The contributions include modifying code to correct unit conversions within the kube-scheduler integration, ensuring accurate metric reporting. Additionally, the user enhanced the codebase by moving unit conversion helpers to an openmetrics mixin, improving code reusability. They also added and updated metrics for the kubelet integration, and introduced settings for label joins in the KSM check.
datadog-agentagentintegrationsmonitoringdatadog
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