Ilya Volodarsky
Founder of Wildfires.org
Ilya Volodarsky
Founder of Wildfires.org
Sedona, Arizona
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Wildfires.org is a non-profit R&D team working to mitigate catastrophic wildfires in the Western U.S, by measuring & scaling hazardous fuel treatments. We assist federal and state agencies in developing technologies aiming to make fuel treatment planning and implementation easier, faster, and cheaper. We pair fuel treatment professionals with technologists, to develop software and hardware to drive those efficiencies.
Partner
2022
Early stage investors to support entrepreneurs building solutions to our growing wildfire crisis
Co-Founder & President
2011 - 2020
Segment is the world's leading customer data platform (CDP). With my co-founders and an amazing team, we grew to over 600 people and several hundred million in revenue. Segment was bought by Twilio for $3.2B in 2020.
Program Manager Intern
2010 - 2010
Visual Studio Tools for Applications, Developer Division
Software Developer
2008 - 2010
Worked on Vevo's video ingestion pipeline. Working on server performance and scalability tools for IIS7 / Windows Server. - ScaleUp Reliable Transfer Client - Sentinel IIS Monitoring and Analytics Engine
Researcher
2009 - 2009
Worked on the Open Transaction Network, specifically Android client and a few apps for the Microsoft Surface for the Viral Communications Group.