Ilia Lazebnik

About Ilia Lazebnik

Infrastructure and Platform Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience building, scaling, and operating cloud-native systems in production. Proven track record leading teams, delivering complex projects on deadlines, and improving reliability, security, and developer productivity.Deep expertise in:• Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform (HashiCorp core contributor), ArgoCD• DevOps & SRE Practices: CI/CD, observability, incident management, automation• Networking & Security: VPC design, identity and access management, complianceI focus on creating highly available, cost-efficient, and scalable infrastructure that enables engineering teams to ship faster and operate with confidence. I’ve led initiatives modernizing legacy environments, migrating to Kubernetes, and building self-service platforms that support rapid product growth.Active contributor to open source, including the Terraform AWS provider and Terraform VPC modules, helping advance the tooling used by thousands of engineering teams globally.

Experience

1. Senior Director of Engineering

   Placer.ai

   Mar 2026 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Leading Placer\'s infrastructure, platform engineering, and CI/CD organizations across the US and Israel, managing a growing team of production and platform engineers and architects. Responsible for cloud reliability, security posture, and the scalability of mission-critical systems running on Kubernetes across GCP.Driving engineering efficiency and best-in-class software development practices across the organization, including CI/CD, system performance, and quality architecture. Championing the adoption of AI technologies across R&D, while building the tools and frameworks that accelerate our release pipeline and enable organizational growth.

Education

• Holtz High School

  High School, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2008 — 2011

Skills

• Web Services
• Design Patterns
• Visual Studio
• Junit
• Agile Methodologies
• Windows Presentation Foundation (Wpf)
• Sql
• Linux
• Software Engineering
• Object Oriented Design
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Multithreading
• Hive
• Databases
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Scala
• Tfs
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Functional Programming
• Java
• Wpf
• Software Development
• Nosql
• Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
• Scrum
• Programming
• Apache Spark
• Software Design
• Xml
• Database Design
• Apache Kafka
• Cassandra
• Maven
• Test Driven Development
• Big Data
• Wcf
• T-Sql