Krešimir Ilić graduated in 2001 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Zagreb.
He started his career in the company Viaduct d.d., and later IPZ d.d., where he worked on capital infrastructure projects in Croatia. Using both structural steel and concrete, he has designed numerous significant structures in the region. His subspecialities are ILM and MSS prestressed RC bridges. At 2014, he founds a company Radionica mostova d.o.o Zagreb, design bureau specialized in the design of bridges and complex structures with the implementation of BIM technology.