Ilya Sukhar
General Partner at Flock Safety
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIlya Sukhar is a seasoned technology investor and operator with 16 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products and startups from San Francisco. As General Partner at Matrix and former co-founder & CEO of Parse (acquired by Facebook), he blends hands-on engineering chops with board-level strategic leadership across companies like Fivetran, Flock Safety, and Mashgin. He led developer platform efforts at Facebook, shipping major APIs and Messenger platform work, and continues to advise early-stage teams through board seats and prior YC partnership. An active contributor to open source, he has implemented deep UX and navigation improvements to popular projects like the Vimium browser extension, showing continued appetite for product-level engineering. He holds advanced computer science degrees from Cornell and is known for bridging low-level implementation detail with company-building instincts. Notably, his career spans founding, exiting, and stewarding developer platforms that served hundreds of thousands of apps and devices.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng. Computer Science, M.Eng. Computer Science at Cornell UniversityThe Harker School
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
keymapping10
chrome-plugin10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
browser-extension10
html9
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
caching6
mongodb6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
philc/vimium
Oct 2009 - Sep 2012
The hacker's browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:224 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ilya made several contributions focused on enhancing the functionality of the Vimium extension. The user implemented a new key-mapping framework, added tab manipulation features (creation, removal, and restoration), and incorporated navigation commands for history and URL hierarchy traversal. Furthermore, the user added basic support for counts in commands, implemented a find interface with in-place search, and added URL copy functionality to the clipboard.
javascriptbrowser
ilya/coinkit
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 7 branches in 18 days
ethereumcryptocurrencybitcoincrypto
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