Ilya Kirnos

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Ilya Kirnos

Prior to co-founding SignalFire, Ilya was a Software Engineer at Google (2004-2012). During his time at Google, Ilya held several technical leadership positions. He was a Technical Lead for Gmail Ads and was responsible for predicting consumer purchase intent and consumer Gmail monetization. Ilya was also a Technical Lead for AdWords Performance and Scalability where he managed responsiveness and uptime of the AdWords frontend. Ilya was also the founder and Technical Lead for Google Prediction Markets, where he led the engineering team from conception to product launch.

After Google, Ilya joined CardSpring, a payment platform company backed by Accel and Greylock Partners. At CardSpring, Ilya led platform backend development. CardSpring was acquired by Twitter.

Ilya started his software engineering career at Bell Labs and Oracle. Ilya graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics.

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Series A & B

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Cybersecurity

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Ilya Kirnos's Posts

SigNoz pioneers open source observability with $6.5M led by SignalFire
Portfolio
September 28, 2023

SigNoz pioneers open source observability with $6.5M led by SignalFire

We’ve earmarked $50M for the SignalFire AI Lab to provide the resources, capital, and credibility to help tomorrow’s AI leaders today.
What makes the modern stack so shaky
Portfolio
Advice
June 14, 2023

What makes the modern stack so shaky

We’ve earmarked $50M for the SignalFire AI Lab to provide the resources, capital, and credibility to help tomorrow’s AI leaders today.
How OneSignal pivoted to power notifications for 1 in 7 apps
Portfolio
September 1, 2022

How OneSignal pivoted to power notifications for 1 in 7 apps

We’ve earmarked $50M for the SignalFire AI Lab to provide the resources, capital, and credibility to help tomorrow’s AI leaders today.
Investing in Twingate, a VPN your team will actually love
Portfolio
April 14, 2022

Investing in Twingate, a VPN your team will actually love

We’ve earmarked $50M for the SignalFire AI Lab to provide the resources, capital, and credibility to help tomorrow’s AI leaders today.
Investing in Faros, the engineering bottleneck-breaker
Portfolio
March 2, 2022

Investing in Faros, the engineering bottleneck-breaker

We’ve earmarked $50M for the SignalFire AI Lab to provide the resources, capital, and credibility to help tomorrow’s AI leaders today.