Ilia Lebedenko

About Ilia Lebedenko

Results-driven Senior Engineering Manager with extensive experience leading cross-functional teams (Devs, QA, DevOps, Product, Business, Marketing) to deliver scalable, secure full-stack solutions. Proven expert in leveraging AI tools for development acceleration, driving observability, and fully automating QA processes to optimize velocity and system reliability. Passion for building high-performing and engaged teams.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager

   F5

   Oct 2022 — Present

   Leading, delivering, modernizing, and using AI to drive efficiency:Led a high-performing, cross-functional team (Product, BA, SecDevOps, QA, Engineering) delivering end-to-end full-stack solutions for F5.com, DevCentral, Techdocs, and StrongBox.Spearheaded AI-driven development initiatives, leveraging AI tools to accelerate code creation, CI/CD pipeline configuration, and unit test generation.Acted as Technical Project Manager and Observability Lead, implementing robust monitoring that improved system reliability and reduced mean time to detection (MTTD).Revolutionized QA processes by mentoring the team to adopt Playwright for end-to-end automation, resulting in faster release cycles. Used three AI-driven Playwright Test Agents - planner, generator, and healer - to fully automate test suite creation and maintenance.Dedicated my talents to foster high-trust, empowered, and connected teams. My passion lies in discovering the unique strengths of every engineer, nurturing their growth, and creating a high octane supportive environment that enables everyone to achieve their very best.

Education

• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)

  B.S., Applied Math and Physics

  1989 — 1993

• The Ohio State University

  M.S., Computer Science

  1995 — 1999

• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)

  M.S., Applied Math and Physics

  1993 — 1995

Skills

• Scrum
• Xml
• Rest
• Cms
• Java
• Json
• Data Structures
• Distributed Systems
• Object Oriented Design
• Soap
• Ant
• Javascript
• Sql
• Web Services
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Content Management Systems (Cms)
• Cq
• Ajax
• Spring
• Spring Framework
• Struts
• Maven
• E-Commerce
• Adobe Analytics
• Agile Methodologies
• Soa
• Jquery Mobile
• Adobe Experience Manager
• Mvc
• Atg
• Jcr
• Design Patterns
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Jira