Ilya founded Nerdy Production and leads its engineering. Before that he was CTO of QIWI, one of Russia's largest payment platforms, and a principal developer at Yandex, where he worked on Yandex.Auto — taking native Android deep into the vehicle, with heavy CAN-bus integration through a custom CAN shield. He was also a principal at Evotor, whose point-of-sale devices run on a forked AOSP, giving him a low-level view of Android most app developers never touch. He has been building software since 2010 and shipping production Flutter since 2018, and now leads delivery on the agency's flagship apps — from the chart-heavy fintech UI of ExtraETF to the fully custom design system of Arcana. He writes most of the essays on this blog and maintains the agency's open-source work, including the dxpdf DOCX-to-PDF engine. He works across Flutter, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Kotlin, Kubernetes, and Docker, with a focus on app architecture, cross-platform delivery, and building teams that ship.
Recent posts
What a 40% Mobile Cost Reduction Actually Looks Like — Numbers from 4 Nerdy.pro Projects
Most cost-reduction claims in mobile development are vague. Four real projects from our portfolio show where the 40% actually comes from — and where founders waste it instead.
May 24, 2026Flutter vs React Native in 2026: The Honest Engineering Tradeoffs
A Flutter shop's honest take on when to pick React Native instead — 8 dimensions compared, with real examples from apps we've shipped.
April 20, 2026Flutter App Development Cost in 2026: Real Numbers from Real Projects
What a Flutter app actually costs to build in 2026 — broken down by MVP, business, e-commerce, and enterprise tiers, with honest numbers and what you get at each price point.
April 16, 2026How to Generate PDFs in Rust with Skia: A Complete Guide Using the skia-safe Crate
Learn how to generate high-quality vector PDFs in Rust using the skia-safe crate — safe Rust bindings for Google Skia, the 2D rendering engine behind Chrome, Android, and Flutter. Includes code examples, a comparison of Rust PDF libraries, and production architecture patterns.
March 21, 2026Encryption Explained: From AES to Post-Quantum Cryptography and End-to-End Messaging
A practical guide to how encryption protects real applications — symmetric ciphers, public-key cryptography, elliptic curves, digital signatures, the quantum computing threat, and why end-to-end encryption in messengers like Instagram matters more than ever.
March 15, 2026