Ilya Zakharau (ɪlʲˈja)
I am a Senior Product Manager and Agile Product Owner with extensive experience in B2B Enterprise products. I write about the systems we build, the people who use and run them, and the interfaces — APIs, processes, conversations — that sit in between.
My day job is building platforms that empower others to develop and deliver their own products efficiently, specializing in API product management and digital experience transformation.
Work
Digital experience platform: API infrastructure, development tooling, documentation portal, AI chatbot. Plus the design system and UI components.
API product management and digital experience transformation in insurance SaaS — platform infrastructure, developer portals, design system management.
Requirements engineering, stakeholder management and agile product ownership across B2B enterprise projects.
Started as an L1 support engineer and moved progressively into business analysis.
Linguistics — English and French translation. Economics — logistics and supply chain management.
“If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.”
This principle guides my approach to building empowered product teams. I’ve seen firsthand how strong teams, equipped with trust, the right tools, and shared knowledge, consistently outperform expectations.
Have a question? Feel free to contact me at ilya@ilya.zakharau.com.