Ilya Katsov Email Address

Principal Architect

Grid Dynamics is the engineering IT services company known for transformative, mission-critical cloud solutions for retail, finance and technology sectors. We focus on big data analytics, scalable omnichannel services, DevOps, and cloud enablement.

Technology strategist and architect with 10+ years of work experience in the software development industry. Strong expertise in design and development of distributed scalable platforms for retail and online advertising business domains. Designed and delivered multiple mission-critical solutions for tier one retailers and advertising companies leveraging in-memory data grids, NoSQL databases, Hadoop stack, and in-stream data processing. Hands-on experience in technology strategy leadership and sales engineering. Developed technology and business strategies for business units up to 150+ employees (examples of public whitepapers that reflect the strategies - https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/whitepapers/). Successfully deployed and led projects with multi-million budgets. Strong experience in system design using Cassandra, Storm, Hadoop stack, Oracle Coherence, SAP Hybris. Strong experience with Java stack, some working experience with Groovy, Clojure, C++. Hands-on experience with enterprise architecture governance, system analysis and discovery. Certifications: - Sun certified Java developer and architect: SCJP, SCBCD, SCEA - TOGAF 9.1 Certified Architect Author of http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com, a technical blog with more than 2,000 followers Open source projects: - Jagger (https://jagger.griddynamics.net), a continuous performance testing system - RebenchR (https://github.com/ikatsov/RebenchR), a fork of IO benchmark integrated with R Author/co-author of several scientific articles and international patents in area of digital communications