# Ilya Gurevich > Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ilyagurevich Senior Software Engineer at the New York Times. Passionate about new technologies. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer - Web Platforms @ The New York Times Jan 2023 – Present Seasoned engineer in charge of the core NodeJs/Web infrastructure powering nytimes.com, serving billions of requests per year through server-side React and a multi-workspace monorepo. - Led the complete rearchitecture of one of our GraphQL layer resolvers to improve performance on the server and client, transitioning from a Scala-based backend to a Node.js Apollo-Server subgraph, utilizing Redis and in-memory caching for decreased latency. ### Senior Software Engineer - Editing & Publishing Tools @ The New York Times Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Greater New York City Area Worked on our cutting-edge custom and real-time collaborative text editor (think Google Docs for Reporters) connected to our robust publishing pipeline. Leveraging a tech stack composed of ProseMirror, React, Firestore, Node.js, Protobuf, Kafka, and SQL. ### Senior Software Engineer - Hybrid Platforms @ The New York Times Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 As a Hybrid Platform developer, I specialized in enhancing and maintaining a bespoke webview implementation spanning Web (NodeJS), iOS (Swift), and Android (Kotlin) stacks. ### Software Engineer - Web Platforms @ The New York Times Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area Initial position focused on the core frontend experience of nytimes.com - Migrated several pages, Video, Best Sellers, Reading List, from outdated PHP stack to modern server-side React. - Conducted a comprehensive accessibility audit across the website to be in compliance with accessibility standards. ### Front End Engineer @ Loadsmart Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 As the ~15th employee, I contributed to scaling Loadsmart from $1MM to $150MM annualized revenue and 300+ employees. Current market valuation of $1.3B. - Invited as a guest speaker at the largest front-end engineering conference in Brazil, FrontinBH, on how we transitioned from Angular to React. - Led the creation of an internal operations dashboard that monitored thousands of shipments each month - Leveraged Google Maps API to craft animated polyline routes, real-time location updates, and waypoints in a customized map integration. - Developed the "Instant Loads" page, allowing users to accept shipments on behalf of their carriers - Crafted an analytics page utilizing D3 library's graph API, allowing users to accurately track and analyze shipment-related information. ### Software Engineer Intern @ ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Alpharetta, Georgia Lead QA for a global 8-person development team focused on the AGILE project which integrates touch screen functionality with elevators. ### Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Responsible for all class operations including lecture preparation, student interactions, grading assignments, creating tests, quizzes, and homeworks, review sessions, providing training to new hires ### Intern/Co-Op @ Norfolk Southern Corporation Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Enola, PA Drafted and designed platform in AutoCAD for workers to install LEADER-GPS modules on roof of locomotives Facilitated packing, transportation, and recording of inactive employee files for database management Created and maintained MS Access database to investigate causes for early locomotive failures Prepared data and participated in a Mechanical Department Problem Solving Event to maximize locomotive reliability after scheduled routine maintenance ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Magnet Program of Science in Engineering, and Technology Joseph Wheeler High School Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ilya-gurevich-7b7b99b7 --- Source: https://flows.cv/ilyagurevich JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ilyagurevich/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22