Ilya Sakharov is a board-level technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading engineering organizations through scale, transformation, and complex business-critical environments. He has held senior technology leadership roles across international product and platform organizations, including CTO and executive engineering positions, leading teams of 200+ engineers across Europe and globally. His work focuses on product-engineering operating models, platform strategy, engineering effectiveness, AI-assisted software development, operational resilience, and organization design. Ilya is known for translating business ambition into focused technology direction, building high-performing engineering systems, and helping organizations modernize architecture, delivery, quality, and developer experience while operating under real-world complexity.