Ilya Boyandin

Ilya Boyandin

Software Engineer | Interactive Systems & Data Visualization

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Experienced software engineer with a PhD in Computer Science and deep expertise in scalable web architectures, interactive front-end development, geospatial analytics, and data visualization.

Executive Summary

  • 20+ years of experience in software engineering, data visualization, front-end development, distributed systems, and technical leadership.
  • PhD in Computer Science focused on data visualization and interactive systems.
  • Experience with ML systems, statistical classification, question answering, NLP, data processing pipelines, and LLM-powered workflows.
  • Experience architecting and scaling real-time collaborative systems.

Experience

Staff Software Engineer, Maps and Data Visualization, Foursquare

July 2021 - present

  • Technical leadership, architecture, and development of Foursquare Studio, a complex web-based geospatial visualization platform.
  • Contributed geospatial visualization features including trips, flows, time controls, annotations, legends, and SQL notebooks with maps.
  • Contributed to the Foursquare Map SDK and LLM-assisted SQL workflows.

Founder, GeoVisually

November 2020 - present

  • Interactive maps and geographic data visualization consultancy.
  • Architected and developed MapCanv, Flowmap City, and NGO-facing supply-chain visualization apps.

Founding Engineer, Unfolded

January 2021 - May 2021

Staff Software Engineer, Front End and Data Visualization Lead, Teralytics

February 2015 - December 2020

  • Led front-end and visualization work for transport analytics and mobility products.
  • Developed scalable origin-destination visualization tools and interactive map interfaces.

Education

PhD in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, 2013

Thesis: Visualization of Temporal Origin-Destination Data

MSc Computer Science, St. Petersburg State University, 2003

Thesis: Statistical Query Transformations for Question Answering in the Web

Skills

TypeScript, React, JavaScript, WebGL, deck.gl, Mapbox GL, D3, geospatial analytics, data visualization, real-time collaboration, Node.js, Python, SQL, LLM integrations, Cloudflare, Vercel, AWS, and Google Cloud.

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