Ilya Grigorik serves as a Distinguished Engineer and Technical Advisor to the CEO at Shopify, where he focuses on building a thriving ecosystem for fast, secure, and engaging content on the open web. His career history includes significant roles at Google.

Prior to his current position, Grigorik was a Co-chair of the W3C Web Performance working group, contributing to standards for web performance. He also founded Postrank, where he held the role of CTO before its acquisition by Google.