Summary
Ilia Bocharov is a pragmatic Head of DevOps & SRE with 10+ years of hands-on software engineering and technical leadership experience, currently driving platform reliability and OKR-aligned strategy at Leroy Merlin. He combines deep Java and TypeScript expertise with practical knowledge of Go, Kotlin, Scala, Python and C#, and has led migrations to Kubernetes, OpenShift and Rancher while implementing active-active architectures to boost uptime. Ilia has a proven track record reducing bottlenecks through load testing programs, JVM tuning, logging optimization and targeted APM/metrics work that improved performance across multiple product teams. He mentors engineers, runs technical interviews up to architect level, and founded a technical blog to share DevOps and Java insights. With a background in nanotechnology and an HSE master's in innovation management, he blends rigorous analytical thinking with business-focused delivery.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Магистр Управление инновационным бизнесом, Магистр Управление инновационным бизнесом at Higher School of Economics
Master's degree Nanotechnology, Master's degree Nanotechnology at Samara State Aerospace University
Russian, English