Iliya Svirsky
Austin, Texas

Senior Software Engineer

10+ years building scalable, high-performance systems. Ex-Expedia, Kojo, Dell EMC. Specialized in legacy modernization, OpenAI integrations, and delivering real business impact.

About Me

Fluent in English, Russian, and Hebrew. I thrive in international, collaborative environments and enjoy working with teams of all sizes on complex technical challenges.

Passionate about high-performance systems and solving difficult problems. Outside of work, I enjoy traveling, discovering great cigar lounges around the world, and unwinding with strategy games.

Experience

Software Engineer III

Expedia Group • Mar 2025 – Apr 2026

  • Led company-wide Node.js framework tooling and service generators
  • GHEC migration + Spinnaker pipeline modernization
  • Primary Node.js SME — supported 10+ teams

Senior Software Engineer

Kojo • Feb 2023 – Feb 2025

  • 93%+ page load reduction (40s → 3s)
  • Built OpenAI + Azure PDF extraction system
  • Led 5 large enterprise projects as Project Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Ascent Cloud • Feb 2022 – Jan 2023

  • Optimized data flows and built client admin platform with AWS Athena
  • Reduced costs and improved performance significantly

Senior Software Engineer

Dell EMC • Sep 2018 – Feb 2022

  • Reduced frontend load time from 2min to ~600ms
  • Scaled MongoDB for 100k+ objects
  • Mentored engineers and onboarded Russia team

Technical Skills

Backend & Frameworks

Node.jsNestJSExpressHapi.jsGraphQLApolloPythonTypeScript

Frontend

ReactNext.jsVueReduxAngularJS

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSDockerTerraformGitHub ActionsSpinnakerAzure

Data & Tools

MongoDBPostgreSQLElasticsearchOpenAIJestCypressDatadog

Featured Projects

Recent work and personal projects

CigarSnap Editor

Personal Project • Web App

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Beautiful web application for cigar enthusiasts. Track your collection, log detailed tasting notes, rate cigars, and manage your humidor with a clean, modern interface.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
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create-node-service

Open Source • CLI Tool

Production-grade CLI generator that creates full-featured Node.js + TypeScript microservices with Fastify, Docker, CI/CD, Jest testing, and best practices — all in one command.

TypeScriptNode.jsFastifyDockerCLI
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Available for Freelance Work

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