Ilya Kirnos

Ilya Kirnos is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director at SignalFire. Prior to co-founding SignalFire, he was a Software Engineer at Google (2004-2012). He serves as Board Member at Leaseable. During his time at Google, he 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. He was also a Technical Lead for AdWords Performance and Scalability where he managed responsiveness and uptime of the AdWords frontend. Prior to this, he performed due diligence on Google's acquisition of Urchin, which became Google Analytics. He was also the founder and Technical Lead for Google Prediction Markets, where he led the engineering team from conception to product launch. After Google, he joined CardSpring, a payment platform company backed by Accel and Greylock Partners. At CardSpring, he led platform backend development. CardSpring was acquired by Twitter. He also serves as the Board Member at One Signal. He started his software engineering career at Bell Labs and Oracle. He graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Computer Science and a minor in Applied Mathematics.