Ilya Grafutko

ILYA Grafutko is an accomplished technology leader with extensive experience in product and engineering roles. Currently serving as the VP of Product and Engineering at Sphera since December 2020, ILYA also provides advisory expertise at Natural Resource Data Solutions Inc since January 2017. Previously, ILYA held the position of Director of Engineering at DDN Storage from May 2019 to December 2020 and had a significant tenure at Nexenta Systems, Inc., where roles included Director of Solutions Engineering, Storage Architect in the CTO Department, and Software Engineer from August 2009 to May 2019. ILYA’s career began in quality assurance as a QA Engineer at Luidia in 2007. ILYA holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from UC Santa Barbara, obtained between 2006 and 2009.