Ilan Filonenko

Ilan Filonenko is a member of the Data Science Infrastructure team at Bloomberg, where he has designed and implemented distributed systems at both the application and infrastructure level. Previously, Ilan was an engineering consultant and technicl lead in various startups and research divisions across multiple industry verticals, including medicine, hospitality, finance, and music. He actively contributes to open source, primarily Apache Spark and Kubeflow's KFServing. He is one of the principal contributors to Spark on Kubernetes--primarily focusing on remote shuffle and HDFS security, and to multi-model serving in KFServing. Ilan's research has been in algorithmic, software, and hardware techniques for high-performance machine learning with a focus on optimizing stochastic algorithms and model management.