I am Ilia. Founder and cloud economist.
I am an entrepreneur and a world-class expert in Cloud Financial Management domain (a.k.a. FinOps). I come from Russia (proof below) and live in San Francisco, USA. I am a Silicon Valley startup founder and a beginner surfer 🏄♂️
My Projects
Just a few things I’ve been working on lately.
Cloudthread
current founderThe startup I co-founded with Daniele Packard and Thomas Yopes. We are building a product turning cloud cost efficiency into a first-class metric for engineering workflows. The company is based in San Francisco.
RU FinOps
current founderThe Russian chapter of FinOps Foundation I have founded together with Vitaly Belyasov. We bring world-class cloud cost management practices to Russian-speaking markets (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc.)
Lyft
2016-2020 tech leadLeading a Data Engineering team focused on financial use cases. Major project: state-of-the art in-house cloud cost management solution. Presented at AWS re:Invent 2019. Featured on AWS official website.
EA
2014-2016 finops leadLeading end-to-end cloud cost management effort. Setting up FinOps function from scratch, engineering efficient processes and architecting analytical systems to support it.
