Igor Polevoy
Founder at Leantegral
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIgor Polevoy is a founder and seasoned technologist with 16+ years of experience building and scaling web platforms, product teams, and developer tools from startups to enterprises. He founded ExpressPigeon (acquired by IMImobile and later Cisco) and is the original author and main maintainer of JavaLite, an open-source Java web framework used by large companies. Igor blends hands-on engineering and architecture with product-first leadership—pinning down product scope, laying technical foundations, and driving teams to deliver customer-facing systems. His background spans CTO and architect roles at organizations like Groupon, Humana clients, and social-impact projects such as Jail Education Solutions, showing a knack for shipping sophisticated systems under tight timelines. Often spotted coding in unconventional places, he teaches and mentors developers and favors pragmatic, fast-ROI solutions.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science at DePaul University
English
Github Skills (105)
parser10
jsoup10
activejdbc10
xss10
activerecord10
web-development10
cpp10
javalite10
css-selectors10
html-parser10
html10
agile10
database10
java10
conventions10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
javalite/javalite-examples
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
A selection of projects that shows how to use various parts of JavaLite
Contributions:78 commits, 38 PRs, 62 pushes in 2 years 7 months
javalite
javalite/javalite.github.io
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 84 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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