Hi, I'm Ilya Roslyakov

Engineering executive with 25+ years in software and 15+ years in leadership, currently leading a Platform Engineering organization of 140+ engineers.

Leading a multi-layer organization (managers of managers), shaping engineering operating model, ownership boundaries, and execution. Owning technology strategy, cross-team architecture, and large-scale platform outcomes: reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Recent impact includes 24% hardware cost reduction, 28% cycle time reduction, and 38% reduction in dev operations effort.

Experienced in treating platform and infrastructure capabilities as internal products for engineering teams, improving developer experience, reliability, and delivery speed.

Background includes building large-scale distributed systems (1M+ CCU), internal cloud platforms, and DevOps transformations across US and EU organizations.

Strong IC background: 15+ years of hands-on experience designing distributed real-time systems in Java, Python, and Erlang.

Open to VP / Director / Head of Engineering roles across Platform, Infrastructure, Reliability, Developer Experience, and large-scale distributed systems.

My hobbies are designing and developing Minecraft plugins in Java (2M+ downloads in total) and

asset allocation and international taxation (educated 10k+ people).