Ilona Papava
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlona Papava is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building product-focused full‑stack systems at scale, currently tech-leading Meta’s new REST and Graph API efforts. She has a strong backend pedigree—contributing to high-profile open source like Facebook’s mcrouter and shipping infrastructure and services across Instagram, Portal, Workrooms and Workplace. At Instagram she led teams delivering digital collectibles and creator-facing features, and at Portal/Workrooms she combined frontend and spatial-audio prototypes to create collaborative real‑time experiences. Known for pragmatic refactoring and avoiding brittle dependencies, she blends hands‑on coding with cross‑functional product strategy and roadmap ownership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
refactor9
performance-optimization9
refactoring9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/mcrouter
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ilona contributed to the `mcrouter` project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to statistics and configuration. They added a check to avoid logging batch size statistics when no data is written, and they updated the code to support hostnames with the `-H` option. Additionally, the user refactored the code by moving functions and classes to avoid circular dependencies and better code organization, specifically around serialization and message handling.
memcached
ilonapapava/textGenerator
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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