Ilya Kirnos

Founding Partner & CTO

2013 - Current

SignalFire is a complete redesign of the modern venture firm based on six years of careful study and development by a team of world class investors and engineers trained at General Catalyst, KPCB, Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo and Google. The end result is a radically different model that brings unparalleled firepower at the early stage to solve the biggest entrepreneur pain points. Our distributed network approach provides expert advice from some of the world's best entrepreneurs, product & engineering leaders in virtually every key discipline and industry. We have developed a first of its kind centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting exceptional talent, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational & community events. We don’t follow the crowd, and almost always lead our investment rounds as the first institutional investors in exceptional companies. You can read more about SignalFire at: https://medium.com/signalfire-fund

Tech Lead

2012 - 2013

Software Engineer

2004 - 2012

Gmail Ads Targeting, lead: user modeling for fun and profit AdWords Frontend Performance/Scalability, lead: ensuring stability and performance of the AdWords FE, which is responsible for $XXB of revenue. Performance monitoring infrastructure: built a non-intrusive, automated monitor of Java, C++, and MySQL services running in production. It is used to improve the performance and stability of hundreds of different projects at Google. It also provides automatic error detection and notification using log mining. Prediction markets: led a team which built prediction markets at Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/putting-crowd-wisdom-to-work.html

Software Engineer

1999 - 2003