Ilya Caramishev
Lead Software Engineer at Gcore
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolIlya Caramishev is a Lead Software Engineer based in Riga with over 20 years of hands-on experience building high-reliability systems in C and Go on UNIX/Linux platforms. He currently leads the Edge Compute team at Gcore, after driving backend and security-focused features like hot backup/restore for immudb and advanced SBOM generation and vulnerability scanning at CodeNotary. Ilya has deep expertise in low-level systems, ETL and message-driven architectures, and a track record of modernizing legacy financial and telecom systems across heterogeneous OSes. Pragmatic and security-minded, he combines architecture and implementation skills—often shipping tooling that makes systems more auditable and resilient. Notably, his background spans both high-performance C systems and newer Go services, reflecting an unusual blend of legacy-system fluency and cloud-native engineering.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI)
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Github Skills (79)
c-preprocessor10
conditional-statements10
verify10
sql10
pci-dss10
gdpr10
database10
code-signing10
switch-statement10
gcore10
verification10
go10
merkle-tree10
trust10
notarization10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
G-Core/FastEdge-client-sdk-go
Mar 2024 - Jun 2026
Client SDK for FastEdge
Contributions:16 PRs, 11 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 4 months
non-prod
qrdl/flightrec
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
Flight Recorder allows to record client program execution and examine it later
Contributions:56 commits, 34 PRs, 83 pushes in 7 months
flightexaminerecordrecorderexecution
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