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Ilia Kovalev is Head of Infrastructure at GetBlock, where he has led a 40% cut in infrastructure costs and raised uptime from 99.95% to 99.99%. A DevOps and SRE engineer since 2020, he has worked as a Site Reliability Engineer at Chainstack and as a DevOps Engineer at Accenture and at Velora, formerly ParaSwap.

Ilia Kovalev is Head of Infrastructure at GetBlock, a blockchain RPC infrastructure platform. He is responsible for the cost and uptime of GetBlock's node fleet and for the infrastructure behind new product launches.

Since joining GetBlock in March 2026, Ilia has led an infrastructure cost reduction program that cut expenses by 40% and raised uptime from 99.95% to 99.99%.

His DeFi infrastructure work includes Velora, formerly ParaSwap, where as a DevOps Engineer he built activity-based API rate limiting for free services. That system cut spam traffic by 30%. He also halved the company's AWS bill and reinvested part of the savings into service performance.

At Chainstack, where he worked as a Site Reliability Engineer in 2022 and 2023, he introduced CI/CD with Atlantis for a large Terragrunt infrastructure monorepo, which cut incidents by 40% and sped up delivery by 30%. He also added Kafka to the billing system, built a custom metrics exporter that caught a billing bug, and ran Polygon, Solana, Avalanche, and BNB Smart Chain nodes across AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare metal.

Ilia started in DevOps in 2020 at T-Systems International, where he built a TensorFlow speech-to-text model that transcribed the team's daily meetings. In 2022, at Accenture, he built a production platform from scratch on Kubernetes, Terragrunt, and Istio and cut the cloud bill by 50%. He studied at Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications.