Michael Ilyin
C++ Developer at ZettaScale Technology
Orsay, Île-de-France, France, Russia
Summary
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RockstarMichael Ilyin is a C++ and Rust systems developer with nine years of experience building efficient, back-end components for distributed data systems. Based in Orsay, Île-de-France, he contributes to eclipse-zenoh, a project that unifies data-in-motion, data-at-rest and computation, where he has improved core and extension code for sorting, deduplication, and safe memory handling. He focuses on pragmatic fixes that improve data handling correctness and performance—replacing unsafe patterns with safer clones and adding fine-grained adminspace permission configuration. Comfortable working across low-level systems and higher-level configuration, he brings an operator’s eye for robustness in geo-distributed environments. Skilled at turning subtle correctness issues into maintainable code, he blends C++ expertise with growing Rust experience to help scale real-time data infrastructures.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
distributed-systems10
rust10
networking10
treemap9
bt9
tmap9
messaging9
btree9
storage8
distributed-computing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-zenoh/zenoh
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
zenoh unifies data in motion, data in-use, data at rest and computations. It carefully blends traditional pub/sub with geo-distributed storages, queries and computations, while retaining a level of time and space efficiency that is well beyond any of the mainstream stacks.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:164 reviews, 7 commits, 207 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on improving the `zenoh-ext` and core `zenoh` components, addressing issues related to data handling and efficiency. Their contributions involved implementing sorting and deduplication of samples using BTreeMap, and fixing data handling issues. Further work included the replacement of unsafe mutable() calls with clone(), and the addition of configurations related to adminspace permissions.
space-efficiencyzenohnetworkingprotocolmessaging
milyin/prebindgen
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
Separating FFI implementation and language-specific binding to different crates in Rust
Contributions:21 PRs, 137 pushes, 26 branches in 1 year
bindingcbindgencsbindgenffirust
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