Ilya Lebedev
Founder & CEO at nodes.garden — Ruby on Rails backend engineer
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Digital nomad (various locations)
Joined November 2025
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Product‑led founder and engineer: Ilya combines hands‑on backend engineering (Ruby on Rails) with founder responsibilities — building the initial product, leading engineering and GTM, and completing accelerator programs (Techstars Web3 '25, XFounders, Founder.University) while scaling nodes.garden from an idea to a live service. ilyalebe+2
Experienced Ruby on Rails backend engineer: Multiple years of focused Rails work across startups and product teams (Xometry Europe, Reinvented Hospitality, Rubyroid Labs, Sputnik8), contributing architecture and feature work (APIs, async systems, integrations) and shipping region launches and products. ilyalebe
Web3 and crypto practitioner: long‑running personal involvement in crypto (mining since 2016) and now building infrastructure tooling for node deployment and rewards; positions nodes.garden as an accessible on‑ramp for running nodes across many chains. ilyalebe+2
Remote‑first, multilingual, and growth‑oriented: comfortable working distributedly across timezones (self‑described digital nomad), with strong English proficiency (EFSET C2 certificate) and a background that mixes engineering, product, and early‑stage startup growth activities. ilyalebe+1
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Travel — has visited ~25 countries; describes himself as a digital nomad. ilyalebe
Crypto: long‑time hobbyist and miner (mined ETH since 2016); active interest in Web3 node operations. ilyalebe+1
Working with LLMs — built a few LLM apps in free time. ilyalebe
Ping‑pong and FPV drone flying. ilyalebe
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