Ilya Zhitomirskiy made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Ilya Zhitomirskiy as software developer (1989-2011).
Ilya Zhitomirskiy was born at Moscow in 1989. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science and Lower Merion High School.
Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy is described as software developer, entrepreneur and computer scientist.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Working from Russia shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 2011, at 22. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Educated at Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science and Lower Merion High School
- Worked as software developer, entrepreneur and computer scientist
