Ilya Gorelik is a Vice President at EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) and head of EPAM’s Real Time Computing Lab.  Prior to EPAM, Ilya was founder and CEO of Deltix, a software and services provider of quantitative research and algorithmic trading solutions which was acquired by EPAM in 2020. Ilya has more than 25 years of experience managing large-scale software projects and teams. He was one of the key development leaders of PTC, where he worked from 1989 to 1998, attaining the position of Senior VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer. From 1998 until 2000, Ilya was Senior VP of Product Strategy and Development and Chief Scientist for FirePond. Ilya has a Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics from Moscow Technical University, he received an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Minsk Technical University.