Meet the Founders

Matt & Dmitry met while scaling Mux's video infrastructure. Apoxy is the platform they wish existed to simplify API operations and handle complex multi-region load balancing problems.

Matt Ward

Matt Ward, co-founder and CEO of Apoxy, has experience leading technical teams at YouTube and Mux. During his six years at Mux, he led various projects from the Data product's analytics UI design and iOS/Android SDK implementation to the Video product's storage backend and cost management systems. Matt began his engineering career in high school as a freelance designer and developer, eventually leading the backend and infrastructure team for YouTube's first-party APIs, and now he’s building the business and product for Apoxy.

Dmitry Ilyevsky

Dmitry Ilyevsky, co-founder and engineering lead at Apoxy, has a background in low-level networking and operating system infrastructure. He gained experience in telecom operating systems and later worked on the Borg kernel team at Google, where he contributed to simplifying their planet-scale monitoring systems. Dmitry's passion for scaling software and teams led him to lead infrastructure teams at Cruise and Mux, overseeing their growth across multiple countries, clouds, and programming languages. Dmitry is now engineering the infrastructure for Apoxy.