Hey there, I'm Ilia (I-L-I-A, [ɪlʲˈja])

I'm a California-based entrepreneur with Russian origin, Data Scientist turned Data Engineer turned Product Leader.

• 🚀 I'm a co-founder at Cloudthread - we are making cloud cost metrics digestible for engineering teams.
• 🧬 Previously I was a technical co-founder at cogniDNA - the futuristic fun project discovering applications of DNA-testing within an education domain.
• 🚗 Even before that I was a Tech Lead at Lyft: for 4 years I was leading Lyft's Finance/FinOps Data Engineering team, here is the video of me presenting my work at AWS re:Invent 2019.
• 📈 My professional area of expertise is Cloud Cost Management (aka FinOps) - I specialize in building enterprise-grade cloud cost management solutions.
• 🧘‍♂️ I am all into bodybuilding and yoga.

Want to know more? Check out my personal webpage.

🏄‍♂️🤙