Summary
Ivan Rylach is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building secure, high-performance, cloud-native systems and currently serves as VP of Engineering in Chicago. He has led transformations from monoliths to microservices, designed mission-critical security and identity services (including a patented key exchange/encryption model), and scaled engineering organizations through reorgs, hiring, and career development. Ivan pairs deep technical hands-on delivery—video streaming, edge compute on Android, sensor-fusion transaction systems, and MLOps—with strategic roadmap and cost-optimization wins (including a $500K/year savings via open-source adoption). He excels at creating empowered, distributed teams and operational standards (RFCs, design processes) that accelerate product delivery and ownership. His background blends advanced security and project management training from Stanford with an MBA from Quantic, enabling him to bridge technical execution and business strategy. Less obvious: he consistently drives both technical IP and pragmatic cost reductions, turning complex research-like projects into production systems that directly impact revenue and efficiency.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Quantic School of Business and Technology
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics & Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics & Mechanical Engineering at Belarusian State University
Stanford Advanced Project Management, Stanford Advanced Project Management at Stanford University
Russian, Russian, German, English