Leonid Lukyanov
CEO & Founder at Aklivity
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeonid Lukyanov is a founder and product-driven CEO with nine years of experience building infrastructure and connectivity products from concept to market. As co-founder of Aklivity, he leads the development of Zilla, an open-source project aimed at rethinking API connectivity and backed by notable investors including Pear VC and 468 Capital. He combines hands-on engineering (having written initial backends and indexing algorithms in earlier startups) with customer-facing product leadership from roles as VP of Product and Director of Product Strategy. Prior experience across venture investing and finance gives him a rare fluency in diligence, go-to-market positioning, and fundraising. Based in Palo Alto, he prefers direct technical collaboration and is explicit about not engaging in outsourced services. That blend of startup founder grit, product ownership, and OSS stewardship shapes his pragmatic, infrastructure-first approach to solving connectivity problems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics at New York UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at NYU Stern School of Business
English, Russian
Github Skills (24)
ai-agent10
mqtt10
event-driven-architecture10
kafka10
proxy10
server-sent-events10
asyncapi10
security10
event-driven10
iot10
rest10
api-gateway10
event-streaming10
streaming-api10
openapi10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
llukyanov/zilla
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
A multi-protocol edge and service proxy, designed for event-driven architectures. Securely interface web apps, IoT clients, and microservices to Apache Kafka® via declaratively defined, stateless APIs.
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year
event-drivenevent-driven-architecturekafkaevent-busabstraction
aklivity/zilla-docs
May 2023 - Aug 2025
Contributions:29 reviews, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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