# Ilia Talalai

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ilia

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Spearheaded a full-stack project which included translating business requirements and designs into technical specifications, assembling documentation, and presenting the technology to the team prior to implementation.
-Identified, reported, and resolved the root cause of an unknown bug duplicating API calls and doubling network load (two characters in the entire code base) which halved API calls in the first month of tenure.
-Generated significant increases in performance wins by designing and implementing client-side caching using Tanstack/React Query.
-Recovered a delayed React 16 -> 18 upgrade project by reviewing coworker analysis to locate the quickest solution for unlocking the delivery and creating a distributed work plan and implementation which resulted in the completion of all objectives ahead of schedule.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dynaboard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Full Stack Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ MarketPsych
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | South East, Singapore
-Integrating a performant Deduplication solution to filter the articles that are near
duplicates
- Python based solution in a Linux environment
- Analyzed large datasets to verify solutions using linux based command line tools
- Used numpy/pandas to create graphs from output data files

### Software Engineer @ Advent Software
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Reverse Engineered legacy code to dissect business logic from old Trade Order Management system
-Designed New Trade Order Management system
-Analyzed and prototyped In-Memory distributed cache and MapReduce computation
-Took a product from conception/design to production and even post-production maintenance/expansion
-Worked on all levels of delivering a product (listed below): 
   *backend DB in SQL
   *mid-level logic in java
   *frontend in JavaScript, CSS, HTML (this was my focus for the majority of the time)
   *CI using Jenkins and Docker to deliver the whole product as cloud-based application  


-Frontend Work for cloud based web app using node.js (details below):
   *stripped out legacy platform and replaced it with modern development/deployment infrastructure with webpack,
  *created many reusable patterns and generic components to make new features quick and easy to implement (awesome to see the design effort pay off in dev time)
  *Managed deployment of frontend code in complex cloud based infrastructure (Docker, Jenkins, GridGain) 
  *Managed and deployed test suite as part of a gated check in. Using test tools like Nightwatch, Selenium, Karma, Jasmine
  *Researched new dev-ops tools and processes: Advanced Git management for clean merging, modern IDEs
  *Created useful scripts for daily code management
  *used React and Redux in side projects

### QA Engineer/ Project Manager @ Originate
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco
* Managed android team
* Prepared weekly demos
* Held retrospectives and planning meetings
* Advocated for user experience on new features
* Managed Pivotal Projects
* Systemized story reports 
* Translated desired features into action items
* Delegated action items to most qualified member
* Tested apps on android, iOS and many browser

### C++ intern @ Zultys, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, Ca
I developed software to send user input data to EEPROM device and to Database. I also developed the front end to get the user information.

### Research Assistant @ UCSD Electrical Engineering Department
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
858-822-6678; -Negative impedance converter (NEC) project
* designed NEC using AGILENT ADS.
* Ran stability tests and found components to be used in physical testing.
* Presented the results of research on a weekly basis to the Professor.; - Double-tuned antenna project
* Designed an electrically small antenna to perform near the Wheeler-Chu limit.
* Designed a double-tuned matching circuit for the antenna
* Presented design results
* Constructed and measured the antenna’s performance


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Electrical engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012

### Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ilia-talalai-0469b357

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Source: https://flows.cv/ilia
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ilia/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22