About

Ilia Denotkine is a highly skilled backend software engineer with 8 years of experience designing and developing large scale distributed systems and services. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he continues to leverage his technical and project management expertise to develop innovative and creative solutions to business problems. Prior to his current role, Ilia worked at Microsoft as a Software Engineer on the Bing Index Generation team, where he focused on improving the size, freshness, and relevance of the Bing index. During his time at Microsoft, Ilia developed a distributed system that uploads datasets to cloud storage, solving the data partitioning issue and maintaining a throughput of over 500,000 documents per second while keeping the 99th percentile latency under 10 seconds. He also created tools that allowed for on-demand ML processing of documents and for easier ML experimentation, resulting in a significant increase in ads relevance. Ilia unified two index generation systems into one comprehensive system, significantly optimizing the multiple outputs of the Index Generation platform and improving the latency for data availability from 3 days to 1.5 hours. He also created a monitoring solution for a sprawling pipeline that operates at over 100K events per second, giving a great view of the pipeline's high-level functionality and allowing for easy tracking of data loss and other investigations. Ilia's previous experience at Microsoft also includes working as a Software Engineer on the Data Platform's Data Insights team, responsible for the creation of data aggregation and marshalling tools to power Data Group business metrics. He implemented, maintained, and significantly improved a data marshalling system that operated on a petabyte scale, with 99.99% availability and 99th percentile latency under an hour. He also architected and implemented a Machine Learning system that predicted Customer Support escalations to Engineers for Microsoft SQL Server, reducing ticket creation to resolution time by an average of 15 days. Ilia holds an Engineer's Degree in Computer Software Engineering from McGill University, which he completed in 2014. He is skilled in a range of technologies, including Software Engineering, Backend development, Machine Learning, infrastructure, and SQL. With 9.11 years of relevant experience, Ilia is a highly accomplished and sought-after professional in his field.