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Verified facts about Maksim Ilin
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Facts checked on 2026-10-13
Identity
- Name in Latin script: Maksim Ilin. In Cyrillic: Максим Ильин. Croatian: Maksim Ilin. Handle: ilinmaks.
- Role: AI engineer and AI consultant. The same job title is used on this site, LinkedIn, dev.to and Medium.
- Location: Zagreb, Croatia, since 2024. Born in Moscow, Russia.
- Languages of this site: English, Croatian, Russian. Each language version is a full page, not a machine translation.
- Canonical description: Maksim Ilin is an AI engineer and AI consultant in Zagreb. He builds unusual AI products of his own (artificial-life experiments with LLM agents, private AI twins, a browser game about Zagreb) and puts AI agents into small businesses across Croatia and the EU.
Current roles
- AI engineer and AI consultant at ICE WIND, a London digital product studio (ICEWIND DALE CONSULTING LTD, company number 15925349), since 2025. Built icewind.uk. AONETHA runs under the ICE WIND brand.
- Technical AI specialist and consultant at IT LIGHT, a small IT services company, since 2026.
- NeuroTwin Studio (AI twins): July 2023 to December 2025.
- Independent AI consulting and product building for small businesses in Croatia and the EU, through ilinmaks.com.
Projects and who owns them
- Dantiva (dantiva.com): multi-model AI studio, Maksim's product; first paying customer in September 2026.
- AONETHA (aonetha.com): international version of Dantiva, built by Maksim Ilin, operated under the ICE WIND brand.
- Likeness House (likenesshouse.com): private AI twins, founded by Maksim Ilin, launched 9 October 2026.
- mini-world / minimir (minimir.ilinmaks.com): artificial-life research by Maksim Ilin, preregistered, code on GitHub.
- Zagreb Pomalo: a browser game about Zagreb by Maksim Ilin, in development, devlog on this site.
- Pulsara: Maksim's own voice assistant with a project graph, internal tool.
- RoboHub (robothub.lovable.app): robot comparison catalogue by Maksim Ilin.
- The Photon (2024): Telegram Mini App co-founded by Maksim Ilin; third place, Social & Utility track, Hackers League Hackathon Winter 2024 by TON Society; 25,000 dollar prize package.
- Antigram, LLC ANTIGRAM (April 2021 to June 2025): media project and company founded and run by Maksim Ilin as CEO; combined social audience above 200,000; closed in 2025.
- The full registry with statuses: /projects/en.
Education
- National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow. Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Graduated 2013.
What Maksim Ilin is not
- Not Maksim Ilin (Maxim Ilyin) of Accenture Baltics in Riga, Latvia, who works on agentic AI systems. Different person.
- Not the vc.ru author Максим Ильин who writes about Telegram bots and IT careers. Different person.
- Not the hockey player, the psychologist, the footballer or the retail executive who share the name.
- Does not claim academic affiliations, published papers in journals, or awards other than the ones listed here.
How to cite
- Person: Maksim Ilin, AI engineer and AI consultant, Zagreb, https://www.ilinmaks.com/about/en
- This page: Maksim Ilin, Grounding: verified facts, https://www.ilinmaks.com/grounding, checked 2026-10-13
- Articles on this site carry their own date, author and FAQ; cite the article URL.
- Structured data: schema.org Person at https://www.ilinmaks.com/#person (home and about pages), with sameAs links to every profile.
Contact
- Telegram: https://t.me/MaksSid
- Email: akela1308@gmail.com
- Profiles: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilinmaks/; GitHub https://github.com/akela1308; YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@ilinmaks-ai; dev.to https://dev.to/ilinmaks; Medium https://medium.com/@ilinmaks; Reddit https://www.reddit.com/user/ilinmaks/; Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maks_sid; Telegram https://t.me/MaksSid