Ilya Baimetov

Defined vision and strategy for a super-app aiming for a 10x reduction in time spent on non-core activities for lifestyle business owners.

Integrated essential SMB tools (site builder, CRM, scheduler, social) with AI agents to automate roles like web master/designer and marketing manager.

Achieved rapid user growth, scaling the platform to over 30,000 users within the first year.

Created and executed a vision/strategy for a generative AI platform, enabling 10x productivity for content creators and 2x higher efficiency for learners through continuous learning and multimodal domain-specific knowledge models.

Managed two strategic acquisitions, effectively doubling the company's revenue and expanding market reach.

Drove the discovery and development of the Learning product line, achieving the first Product-Market Fit for the AI platform with interactive multi-modal content, simulations, and AI teaching assistants.

Launched pilot programs demonstrating a 25% increase in learner efficiency and 5x increase in teacher productivity, serving 50,000+ MSP partners and ~1,000 computer science students annually.

Led Product Research, founding a "frontier" group that built 4 forward-looking product prototypes (Avatar, Classroom, Studio, Assessment) and established a ~50/year patent generation process, producing 20+ strategic reports.

Drove the Acronis Platform transformation, scaling backup product storage from 10PB to 200PB at 10x lower cost than major cloud providers, and expanding datacenter presence from 3 to 50+ with 100K+ containers.

Expanded partner ecosystem from 0 to 120+ partners and 200+ applications, significantly enhancing platform reach and capabilities.

Led the productization of cybersecurity technologies, enabling 50,000+ MSP partners to transform into Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) with a one-click solution.

Implemented an Adaptive LMS for corporate training and higher education, later spun off as Constructor Tech, demonstrating strategic foresight in educational technology.

Automated Regional Network Gateway (RNG) deployments, reducing configuration time by 10x (from 4-6 weeks to 3-4 days) by adapting datacenter networking toolsets to WAN routers.

Defined vision and roadmap for an end-to-end WAN configuration automation platform using Hierarchical Segment Routing, improving WAN reliability and business agility through transactional changes.

Developed vision and roadmap for a WAN emulator-as-a-service, enabling 10x improvement in network reliability by staging complex changes in a virtual WAN instance with hundreds of VMs.

Provided a real-world scale testbed for WAN software, significantly enhancing testing capabilities and system robustness.

Created vision and strategy for Virtuozzo-based IaaS product, reversing stagnation to achieve 10%+ YoY growth and establishing a $50M ARR business.

Defined vision for a comprehensive hosting and cloud reseller platform (xSP Automation), growing to $60M ARR pre-acquisition, which became a multi-billion dollar business post-acquisition at Ingram/CloudBlue.

Managed a large cross-functional team of 20 PMs and designers, supported by a 200+ strong engineering organization, fostering a high-performance product development environment.

Led the creation of APS, a standard for packaging and managing cloud applications, which facilitated 200+ apps, millions of instances, and 100+ hosting providers, now integral to Ingram/CloudBlue.

Spearheaded evangelism and product management for the award-winning container-based server virtualization product, Virtuozzo.